The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) works with its partners to monitor health, detect and investigate health problems, conduct research to enhance and implement prevention strategies, develop and promote sound [Read more]
Getting the right information to the right people at the right time can be vital in preventing the spread of deadly, yet wholly treatable diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. The fact [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with the Office of Health Affairs National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC), today announced five finalists for Stage 1 of the Hidden [Read more]
There is an unmet need for greater investment in preparedness against major epidemics and pandemics. The worldwide spread of a serious infectious disease could result in pandemic-related deaths of 700,000 and annual [Read more]
The 10th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) will be held July 9-25, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. SISMID is designed to introduce [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to develop methodologies to rapidly characterize the virulence of existing and emerging biothreats to inform risk assessments, disease preparedness and response activities. Traditional pathogen [Read more]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking capability statements from organizations in support of enhancing the chemical and biological facility modeling toolset that is integrated into the Hazard Prediction and Assessment [Read more]
Experts from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Joint Science and Technology Office and the Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center are getting creative with a new decontamination System Performance Model (SPM). Led by JSTO’s [Read more]
Mobile phone data may reveal an underlying mathematical connection between how we move and how we communicate that could make it easier to predict how diseases — and even ideas — spread [Read more]
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is spreading the virus in much of Latin America and the Caribbean, will likely be increasingly abundant across much of the southern and eastern United States as [Read more]
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