CDC Fiscal Year 2019 Broad Agency Announcement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works with its partners to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, ...
Tag: Modeling-Simulation
Novel Algorithm Approach to Fight the Spread of Diseases
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time can be vital in preventing the spread of ...
DHS Announces Finalists in Biothreat Prize Competition
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration ...
Calculating Expected Economic Losses from a Pandemic
There is an unmet need for greater investment in preparedness against major epidemics and pandemics. The worldwide spread of a ...
DHS Seeks Capabilities in Advanced Pathogen Characterization and Predictive Analytics
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to develop methodologies to rapidly characterize the virulence of existing and emerging ...
Chemical and Biological Facility Modeling
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking capability statements from organizations in support of enhancing the chemical and biological ...
The CREATIVE Decontamination System Performance Model
The CREATIVE Decontamination System Performance Model. Courtesy of Michael Roberts, JSTO. Experts from the Defense Threat ...
Walking and Talking Behaviors May Help Predict Epidemics
Mobile phone data may reveal an underlying mathematical connection between how we move and how we communicate that could make ...
Potential Zika Virus Risk Estimated for 50 U.S. Cities
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is spreading the virus in much of Latin America and the Caribbean, will likely be ...
BARDA Seeks Advanced Public Health Consequence Modeling
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is seeking information from organizations capable of supporting a “Public Health and ...
Open Source Disease Modeling: A Tool to Combat the Next Pandemic
Before the age of mass travel, infectious diseases went from local outbreak to international epidemic by ship. In the 21st ...
Role of Poverty in Ebola Transmission Rates
Researchers from the Liberian Ministry of Health and the Yale Center for Infectious Disease Modelling and Analysis evaluated 3532 Ebola ...
Air Force Seeks Advances in Sweat Biomarkers, CBRN Wind Modeling
The U.S. Air Force has released new topics for potential funding via the Department of Defense FY2016 Small Business Innovation ...
Novel Model Maps Ebola Transmission in Sierra Leone
Using a novel statistical model, a research team led by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health mapped the spread ...
SRC to Support DTRA in Characterizing Chemical Threat Agents
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) this week announced intentions to award a sole source contract for chemical threat ...
DARPA Announces CHIKV Challenge Winners
To accelerate the development of new infectious disease forecasting methods, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last year launched ...
ECBC Develops Better Sample Collection Method
Researchers at Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) recently developed a new test fixture and experimental method, named the Low-volatility Agent ...
BAA – Naval Health Research Center (NHRC)
The Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) has issued an updated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) identifying scientific and technical areas of ...
BARDA Seeks 3D Visualization Hub for Emergency Response
The Division of Analytic Decision Support (ADS) within the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Office of the Assistant ...
New Model Predicts Ebola Timeline in Liberia
John Drake, associate professor at the UGA Odum School of Ecology. The Ebola epidemic in Liberia ...
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