International Conference on Modelling
and
Informatics for Public Health
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
December 8 - 11,
2025
About the Conference
The International Conference on Modelling and Informatics for Public Health will bring together leading scientists, public health experts, technology innovators, and policymakers to explore how modelling, advanced analytics, and digital tools can drive better health outcomes. This four-day event entails an inspiring mix of thought-provoking talks, and opportunities to build lasting collaborations.
Conference Themes
- Innovations in Disease Modelling
- Statistical Applications in Health Research
- Genomics and Its Role in Public Health
- Translating Modelling Insights into Policy Decisions
- Advances in Health Econometrics
Programme Highlights
- Plenary Sessions
- Invited Talks
- Poster Sessions
- Networking
Talks
Plenary talks
- Dr. C.S.Pramesh, Director, Tata Memorial Hospital - Disease, data, economics and quality
- Dr. Prashant Mathur, Director, ICMR-NCDIR - From modelling to policy; actionable insights for public health
- Sir Roy Anderson, Professor, Imperial College, London - Mathematical epidemiology and clinical trial simulation
- Prof. Gautam Menon, Professor, Ashoka University - The role of granular approaches in disease modeling
- Dr. Arminder Deol, Head of Data Science and Advanced Analysis at CEPI, From models to action: translating epidemic analytics into equitable vaccine decisions
Plenary talks
- Dr. Sangita Kulathinal, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki - The Role of Statistics Across the Spectrum of Diseases: Evolving Perspectives
- Dr. Sujit Ghosh, Professor, Department of Statistics, NC State University - Modeling Survival Times with Wearable and Sensor Data: Flexible Functional Approaches for Digital Health Applications
- Dr. Subharup Guha, Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College - Causal Meta-Analysis by Integrating Multiple Observational Studies with Multivariate Outcomes
- Dr. Amiya Ranjan Bhowmick, Assistant Professor, Institute of Chemical Technology - Ecological Niche Modelling in Epidemiological Prediction: Opportunities and Challenges in the Indian Context
- Dr. Swapnil Mishra, Assistant Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health - Inferential Artificial Intelligence (iAI) for Disease Modeling
- Dr. Dipankar Bandopadhyay, Professor of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Public Health - Interpretable Bayesian modeling for spatially-referenced multistate current status data
Plenary talks
- Dr. Kajal Lahiri, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, University at Albany, State University of New York - How Accurate Were the COVID-19 Forecasters in the United States?
- Dr. Amresh D. Hanchate, Professor, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University - Role of Home-Based Medical Care and Telemedicine in Dementia: The COVID-19 Experience
- Dr. Richard White, Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Modelling to support new TB vaccine development and introduction
- Dr. Somdatta Sinha, Adjunct professor, IISER Kolkata - Modelling infectious diseases: from genomes to populations
- Dr. Samiran Ghosh, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, UT Health Houston - Role of Implementation Science in Disease Screening, Prevention, and Monitoring in Public Health
- Dr. Rakesh Mishra, Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society - One Health Index Calculator for India
- Dr. Nikhil Patkar, Clinician, Scientist and Professor, Tata Memorial Centre - Genomics Approaches for Diagnosis and Monitoring of Blood Cancers
- Dr. Nirav Bhatt, Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Madras - Discovery and Predictive Learning Approaches for Disease Modelling
Plenary talks
- Dr. Martin Karlsson, Professor of Economics of the University of Duisburg-Essen - From Cradle to Grave: Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Dynamics of Health
- Dr. Robyn Stuart, Independent consultant, Institute for Disease Modelling - Rapid reusable frameworks for building agent-based models
- Dr. Bhupendra Tripathi, Deputy Director, Infectious diseases and vaccine delivery, Gates Foundation - How modelling may accelerate elimination of neglected tropical diseases in India
- Dr. Jennifer Flegg, Professor, The University of Melbourne - Mathematical modelling of antimalarial drug resistance
- Dr. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi - Decoding Demand for Healthcare: Empirical Insights from Meghalaya's Health Insurance Claims
- Dr. Shankar Prinja, Professor, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - Economic Modelling for Public Health Policy
- Dr. Subhra Sankar Dhar, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - Identification of Key Symptoms of RSV Infection through Variable Selection: A Statistical Approach
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Contact Details
- Office - NDMC
- Email: icmiphndmc@gmail.com
Organizing Committee
- Prof. Siuli Mukhopadhyay
- Prof. Sarika Mehra
- Prof. Usha Ananthakumar
- Prof. Mithun Mitra
- Prof. Souvik Banerjee
- Prof. Saket Choudhary
NDMC Secretariat
- Dr. Suchita Nath-Sain
- Ms. Sandhya Ananth
- Ms. Rupali Chavan
- Ms. Priyanka Srivastava
Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Plenary Speakers
Invited Speakers
Robyn Stuart
Institute of Disease Modelling
We thank the funding agencies for their support
