40 Introduction
This final module first highlights the practical applications of network modeling for epidemics in EpiModel, focusing on prior publications in the HIV and COVID literature. A short set of discussion questions then asks you to sketch your own network-modeling project. We close with the technical and scientific resources available for EpiModel users to build and execute research-level infectious disease models.
NME-I and NME-II are designed as a single arc: NME-I gives you built-in network models, and NME-II builds the research-level extensions behind the applications below. Taking them back to back is the intended path.
Picking up EpiModel on your own? Start here:
- Work through the tutorials at epimodel.org.
- Copy the closest worked example from the EpiModel Gallery.
- Read the Journal of Statistical Software paper for the framework.
Once you have a working model, the extension packages (EpiModelHIV, EpiModelCOVID, ARTnet, EpiModelHPC) are the advanced reading.
The three slide decks for this module are embedded below.