A New Standard for Reporting Epidemic Prediction Research
“EPIFORGE” guidelines aim to improve quality, usefulness of epidemic forecasting manuscripts An international panel has designed new guidelines to standardize ...
Tag: Modeling-Simulation
DHS to Conduct Airflow Studies in NYC to Help Urban Areas Better Plan for Airborne Threats
Study will help officials understand how potentially hazardous aerosols may transport above and below ground if a real biological or ...
HHS Taps Draper to Develop Lung-on-a-Chip Technology to Study SARS-CoV-2
Draper has received a $719,000 federal contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to enhance the ...
Special CBRN Plume Modeling Team Supported Biden Inauguration Security
When seconds matter, speed saves lives. That’s why Adam Moses, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) computer scientist, was part ...
Argonne Researchers Use Supercomputer Theta to Model the Spread of COVID-19
With COVID-19 drastically altering daily life for people across the planet, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory ...
Using Machine Learning to Estimate COVID-19’s Seasonal Cycle
One of the many unanswered scientific questions about COVID-19 is whether it is seasonal like the flu - waning in ...
Early Prediction Tool to Identify Patients Who Will Progress to Severe COVID-19
JOURNAL WATCH This nomogram, derived from 300+ person retrospective study, could help clinicians to early identify patients who will exacerbate ...
University of Washington Releases Predictive Model for Hospital Utilization and Deaths Due to COVID-19
Modeling scientists from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) have presented their first set of ...
Tulane National Primate Research Center Launches Coronavirus Research Program
From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to designing ...
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, ...
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 Reduction Agency’s Joint Science ...
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 ...
