Mathematics for Public Health

• The Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH) program is a program to develop a national network of infectious disease modellers and public health policy makers that can rapidly respond to public health emergencies.

• The MfPH initiative is a pan-Canadian, Emerging Infectious Disease Modelling (EIDM) multi-disciplinary network that applies advanced mathematical techniques to help achieve public health objectives. This initiative is a partnership between The Fields Institute, the Atlantic Association for Research in Mathematical Sciences (AARMS), the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS);  and forms part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Emerging Infectious Diseases Modelling Initiative. MfPH builds on the work of the Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 Task Force funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) rapid research program.

• Co-led by Fields Director, V. Kumar Murty, and York University mathematics professor, Jianhong Wu, MfPH is a network of infectious disease modellers that use state-of-the-art techniques to advise on public health policy with the long-term goal of boosting future epidemic preparedness and improving Canada’s resilience in emergency situation.