Past pandemics actuarial resources

General introductions to pandemics

• View the Longevity Bulletin 6: The Pandemic edition (2015):
   
  • An actuarial perspective on pandemics. Gordon Woo, pages 3-5.
  • An epidemiological perspective on pandemics. Alison Martin, pages 7-11.
  • A policy perspective on pandemics. Chloe Sellwood, pages 13-18.
  • A medical technologist perspective on pandemics.  Christoph Thuemmler. pages 20-21.
     
• IFoA news release on issue of Longevity Bulletin: Actuarial modelling of big data could play a major role in tackling the next pandemic, 5 August 2015. Other articles from this Longevity Bulletin are shown under the themes of modelling and mitigation, and assessments of past pandemics.
   
• Predicting pandemics. Charles Orton-Jones. Delta: Actuaries Supporting Change (2016) pages 26-28. View article
   
• Mitigating the risks of pandemics.  Petra Wildemann (2018). The Actuary, March, pages 28-29.
   

Modelling and mitigating pandemic risks

• The influenza agenda. Matthew Edwards and Richard Marshall. The Actuary (2016), December, pages 30-32.
   
• Prevention is better than cure.  Joseph Lu. The Actuary (2016), January/February, pages 25-27. 
   
• Pandemic perspective. Anne Lise Bagur. The Actuary (2013), November, pages 22-24.

Presentations to IFoA conferences

• Identifying, quantifying and mitigating the risk of epidemics. Petra Wildemann. IFoA Life Conference 2017.  
   
• Terror and pandemic modelling for life insurance. Colin Dutkiewicz. IFoA Protection, Health and Care Conference 2017 
   
• Mitigating the risk of epidemics. Petra Wildermann. IFoA General Insurance ‘GIRO’ Conference 2017. 
   
• Pandemic influenza: a timely example of what a mortality stress scenario might look like. Brett McWilliam; Kevin O'Regan. Life Convention 2006. View presentation
   
• Will my re-insurer be there when I need them most? Chris Barker and Jules Constantinou.
  Life conference 2009.
   

Assessing past pandemics

From Longevity Bulletin: The Pandemic edition. Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. 2015:

• Case study: 1918 Spanish flu, page 6.
• Case study: HIV/AIDS. page 12.
• Case study: Ebola.  page 19.

Presentations to IFoA conferences

• Reimagining the 1918 pandemic. Ashley Campbell.  Highlights of the IFoA Life Conference 2018.  
   
• Extreme scenarios for pandemic risk. Gordon Woo. IFoA International Mortality and Longevity Symposium 2016. 
   
• Age-dependence of the 1918 pandemic Gordon Woo. Institute and Faculty of Actuaries sessional meeting paper in September 2018.