Three conference/workshop opportunities are coming up in 2023. Please submit your work to these conferences/workshops. There is still time to register for the 6th Workshop on Viral Dynamics, to be held in Nagoya, Japan in 4 to 6 July 2023. The deadline to register is June 4. You can find out more details here. The International Workshop on Mathematical Biology 2023 (IWOMB 2023) will be held in Baguio, the Philippines on 26 and 27 July 2023. More details will appear here later so stay tuned! The deadline to submit abstracts for Epidemics 9 to be held in Bologna, Italy is 15 June 2023. The conference will be held on 28 November to 1 December 2023. You can find more details here.

Alex Cook will deliver the upcoming seminar on 24 May 2023. The title of the talk is “Lessons learnt from the first MIDSEA workshop”. MIDSEA Council would like to extend our invitation to you to our 7th session of the 2022/23 webinar series. In this session, A/Prof Alex Cook from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health will be sharing some experiences and insights gained during our first workshop at Koh Samui, Thailand. We hope you could join us on 24 May, at 12.30pm (Yangon), 1pm (Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta), 2pm (Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore) and 3pm (Jayapura) (Time Zone Conversion). You are welcome to share this invitation with your network to join this dialogue. For any queries, please feel free to contact Crystal (crystal.chua@nus.edu.sg).

First in-person workshop of MIDSEA. On behalf of the National University of Singapore (NUS), we are pleased to host the workshop conducted by the Modelling Infectious Disease for South East Asia (MIDSEA) to our Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, from 8 to 12 May 2023. This workshop has been co-funded by Temasek Foundation (TF) and NUS. During the visit, we will discuss “Modelling During A Public Health Emergency”. The workshop will be a mix of research talks, panel sessions and training sessions. We expect to have 40 participants from the region. We will focus on the challenges and advances made by various modelling communities in the area during the pandemic. We will also discuss the challenges faced by the region in the future and how we can work together to address them.

MORU was proudly represented at the MIDSEA Summer School 2026, held at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, in Borneo, from 8 to 13 June 2026. The event highlighted MORU’s continued contribution to the growing MIDSEA network and offered a valuable opportunity for learning, collaboration, and recognition. Phrutsamon Wongnak (Chang) contributed to the teaching programme, sharing expertise in model simulation and coding. Joining the training programme were Vidhyakorn Mahd-Adam (Ameen), Tanakorn Waleecharoenpong (Pepe), Shun Lei Win of MAEMOD, and Kantapong Kotchum (Mark) of CTSG, who had hand in intensive sessions on the theory, practice, and real-world applications of infectious disease modelling alongside experts and practitioners from across Southeast Asia and Australia. A special highlight of the week was Mark’s oral poster presentation winning award for “Modeling RSV Viral Clearance Kinetics,” adding another proud moment for MORU after Chang’s success in the same category the previous year. Alongside the academic programme, the team also visited the “Semenggoh Wildlife Centre” in Sarawak, where they observed orangutan, the largest arboreal mammals, and third-largest great ape and reflected on how climate and environmental change can shape wildlife health and habitat and the spread of infectious diseases, an inspiring reminder of the wider context in which modelling of infectious disease matters.