Speaker: David Price, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia Title:"Optimal allocation of resources to learn about infectious diseases" Abstract: Design of experiments is not a new concept. However, much of the classical experimental design work was developed for the purpose of hypothesis testing – i.e., how many resources (e.g., individuals, mice, blood samples, etc.), are required to ensure sufficient statistical power to test a formal hypothesis. In contrast, many basic science experiments (e.g., microbiology, immunology or chemistry) and…