Introduction to the course and the instructors

Understanding, evaluating, and improving forecasts of infectious disease burden

Why this course?

forecasting is a common task in outbreak response
no comprehensive training resource for infectious disease forecasting

Aim of the course

learn to visualize and interpret infectious disease forecasts
evaluate forecasts using multiple approaches
create forecast ensembles to improve predictions

Who are we?

Next step

Navigate to https://bit.ly/idm-forecasting