Which mechanisms connect conflict and related disruption to disease transmission, exposure and detection?
Inaugural meeting03–04 September 2026Christ Church · Oxford
Spatial epidemiology × conflict
Methods,
mechanisms,
missing data.
Two days of talks, discussant responses and open discussion across spatial epidemiology, conflict research and related methods.
↓01 / About
Why this meeting?
CONTOUR brings spatial epidemiology and conflict research into closer conversation.
The inaugural meeting focuses on how conflict, displacement, service disruption, environmental change and observation processes are represented in spatial epidemiological research. Speakers will introduce approaches and examples; discussants and participants will help identify assumptions, methodological gaps and useful directions for future work.
Questions across the programme
How should spatial models handle scale, temporal lag, movement, displacement and spillovers?
What can be learned by integrating epidemiological, environmental, mobility, demographic and genomic data?
Click any session for full details Live contributions are available in talk and roundtable sessions
Speaker / chairAndré Python · Janey Messina
Introductions; rationale for bringing spatial epidemiology and conflict research into closer conversation.
Live discussion
What should this workshop help us understand or do differently?
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03 / During the workshop
Contribute as we go
Signed-in participants can add a question, make a connection or challenge an assumption during each talk and roundtable. The same workspace holds presentations and follow-up comments before and after the meeting.
Live discussion
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04 / People
People
Organising committee
Workshop participants
Nuno Faria
Imperial College London
André Python
Zhejiang University
Andrea Ruggeri
University of Milan
Michael Emch
UNC Chapel Hill
Gavin Band
University of Oxford
Janey Messina
University of Oxford
Ewan Cameron
Heriot-Watt University
Janine Illian
University of Glasgow
Tim Lucas
University of Leicester
Charles Petrik
University of Oxford
05 / Practical
Christ Church
Oxford
Open the full programme PDF ↗- Dates
- Thursday 03 – Friday 04
September 2026 - Sessions
- Lecture Room 1
Christ Church - Coffee
- Junior Common Room
- Lunch & dinner
- Great Hall
- Friday
- Optional hybrid morning