

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AI for Outbreak Forecasting: Are We Seeing the Full Picture?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 am – Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: A Symposium on Epidemiological Modelling and Simulation with AI and LLMs arising from a CSIRO-NSF Grant.About this EventPredicting disease spread is only as reliable as the data we use. AI can boost our understanding—but can it overcome missing or biased data?Join us for an engaging session exploring how artificial intelligence, specifically large language models (LLMs) like the ones behind today’s chatbots, can help simulate and better understand how people make health choices during outbreaks.We also look at diseases in wildlife, like avian influenza in wild birds. Using advanced graph-based AI, we combine genetic, environmental, and location data to predict how viruses move and evolve—even when surveillance is incomplete. Learn how combining mobility data, genetics, and AI can uncover the hidden parts of disease spread and help build fairer, more accurate tools for public health.Agenda?: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AMWelcome to CountryHost: Uncle Peter McKenzie, Eora/Anaiwen Elder?: 09:05 AM - 09:13 AMWelcome &amp; Opening Remarks Host: Prof Attila Brungs, Vice-Chancellor and President, UNSW?: 09:13 AM - 09:20 AMOpening Remarks Host: ScProf Anthony Kelleher, Director, Kirby Institute, UNSW?: 09:20 AM - 09:30 AMCSIRO-NSF project on Understanding Bias in AI Models Host: Prof Flora Salim, CSE, UNSW?: 09:30 AM - 09:50 AMAI for genomics in forecastingHost: Prof Brett Sutton, CSIRO?: 09:50 AM - 10:10 AMAI for Influenza VaccineHost: Prof Regina Barzilay, MIT?: 10:10 AM - 10:30 AMAvian Influenza and Emerging ThreatsHost: Jennifer Case, NSW Health?: 10:30 AM - 10:50 AMMorning Tea?: 10:50 AM - 11:05 AMExpansion of HPAI H5 clade 2.3.4.4b genotype D1.1 during  2024 avian migrationHost: Prof Matthew Scotch, ASU?: 11:05 AM - 11:20 AMHarnessing Spatiotemporal Information Heterogeneity and DynamicsHost: Prof Flora Salim, CSE, UNSW?: 11:20 AM - 11:35 AMSimulated Worlds: Large-Scale In-Silico Analytics for Public HealthHost: A/Prof Andreas Zufle, Emory University?: 11:35 AM - 11:50 AMModeling Spatial Heterogeneity in Health Behaviors and Disease Spread Host: Dr Taylor M. Anderson, GMU?: 11:50 AM - 12:05 PMUsing LLMs as decision modules in Agent Based ModelsHost: A/Prof David Heslop, UNSW?: 12:05 PM - 12:25 PMAI and network intervention for HIV preventionHost: Prof Milind Tambe, Harvard University?: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PMLunch Break ?: 01:30 PM - 01:55 PMPanel: Open-Source Intelligence for PandemicsHost: Prof Raina MacIntyre, Kirby, UNSW?: 01:55 PM - 02:10 PMPanel: Australian CDC Establishment- StrategyHost: Mr Jacob Madden, Australian Centre for Disease Control?: 02:10 PM - 02:25 PMPanel: AI for influenza forecastingHost: Prof Michael Baker, University of Otago?: 02:25 PM - 02:40 PMPanel: Influenza virologyHost: Prof Bill Rawlinson, NSW Health Pathology?: 02:40 PM - 02:55 PMLaboratory lessons learned from the 2009 influenza pandemicHost: Dr Jen Kok, Westmead Hospital?: 02:55 PM - 03:45 PMPanel Q &amp; AInfo: Bringing together AI, data science and virology for pandemic planning                                                       Panel: Professor Raina MacIntyre (UNSW), Jacob Madden (Australian CDC), Prof Michael Baker (University of Otago), Professor Bill Rawlinson (NSW Health Pathology), Dr Jen Kok (Westmead Hospital).?: 03:45 PM - 04:30 PMAfternoon Tea
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/kensington/ai-for-outbreak-forecasting-are-we-seeing-the-full-picture/100001977319278189
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness, nonprofit, it, artificial-intelligence
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Kensington
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: The Kirby Institute, UNSW: The Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room (Level 6)
- **lat**: -33.9166392
- **long**: 151.2359915
- **full address**: The Kirby Institute, UNSW: The Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room (Level 6), Wallace Wurth Building (C27), Cnr High St &amp; Botany St, Kensington, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 am
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** health-wellness, nonprofit, it, artificial-intelligence
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