SIR Models Courses and Certifications

Career Certificate

Infectious Disease Modelling

307 ratings at Coursera

Build infectious disease models in R: develop the SIR model, code interventions, calibrate models to data, and extend the basic structure to richer transmission dynamics.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Developing the SIR Model

277 ratings at Coursera

Build compartmental SIR models of infectious disease: interpret rates, durations and proportions, explore the basic reproduction number, and model population turnover, vaccination and waning immunity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Julia Scientific Programming

33 ratings

Learn Julia from scratch: use arrays, loops and functions on Ebola outbreak data, fit an SIR model, and build plots, DataFrames and statistical tests.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Interventions and Calibration

56 ratings at Coursera

Model vaccination and treatment interventions by extending SIR compartments, then calibrate models to epidemic data by hand and via least-squares and maximum-likelihood approaches in R.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Building on the SIR Model

31 ratings at Coursera

Extend the SIR model beyond deterministic assumptions: simulate stochastic epidemics in R, model population heterogeneity and vector-borne diseases with Ross-McDonald, and peer-review a modelling study.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Institut Pasteur

Modeling of Infectious Diseases

Dans ce MOOC, vous apprendrez une approche élémentaire, mais très générale, de la modélisation mathématique de la dynamique des maladies infectieuses.

• France Université Numerique
• 22 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Julia Programming Language

Macroscopic Models of Epidemic Dynamics - Week 6

Derive macroscopic deterministic epidemic models from microscopic stochastic SIR processes using expectations and discrete- or continuous-time equations.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Network Modeling and Analysis in Python

Model and analyze networks in Python with NetworkX: detect communities with Girvan-Newman and label propagation, generate Erdős-Rényi and stochastic block graphs, and simulate SIR diffusion.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 7 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Infectious Disease Modeling in Practice

15 ratings at Coursera

Learn how infectious disease transmission models are built and applied: evaluating control strategies, inferring transmission rates from outbreak data, and forecasting future disease burden.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

3Blue1Brown

Simulating an Epidemic

Explore epidemic dynamics through toy SIR models, visualizing how various factors influence disease spread and containment strategies.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nature, in Code: Biology in JavaScript

1 rating

Learn JavaScript programming by implementing key biology concepts in code, including natural selection, genetics and epidemics.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Building and Applying Epidemiological Models: Wolfram U

Build progressively more complex epidemiological models in Wolfram Language, starting from dynamic transmission models and simulating past and present epidemics while varying parameters.

• Wolfram U
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Tom Rocks Maths

Oxford Mathematician Explains SIR Travelling Wave Disease Model for COVID-19

Explore the SIR Travelling Wave model for disease spread, focusing on COVID-19. Learn how population movement affects epidemic dynamics, including spread speed and severity, and the importance of social distancing measures.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Wolfram

SIR Model Analysis: Case Study of Hong Kong Flu

Explore infectious disease dynamics using the SIR model, applying it to the 1960s Hong Kong flu outbreak in NYC to understand disease spread and intervention strategies.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

SIR Model Revisit and SIDARTHE Model - Lecture 4

Explore the SIR model revisit and SIDARTHE model in this social network analysis lecture.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video