Public Health Preparedness Modeling

A primary use of models is to evaluate proposed or existing plans and designs. For example, how many people per hour can we vaccinate using this POD design? However, not all evaluation tools are mathematical models.
CDC has developed an Environmental Health Shelter Assessment Tool that can be used to evaluate a shelter (the [...]

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Peyman Karimian, my research assistant, recently examined Master the Disaster, which was created by the Center for Public Health Preparedness, an Advanced Practice Center at the DeKalb County (Georgia) Board of Health. Peyman provided the following review:
The software is disaster designer software which creates real scenarios of disasters such as Anthrax, Botulism, Hurricane, Pandemic [...]

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Many jurisdictions are planning to setup and operate PODs out of convenient facilities such as schools. Patients come to the POD, and the staff there serve them. We have spent a lot of time developing our Clinic Planning Model Generator to model such PODs.
Karen McKinnis, at the Springfield-Greene County (Missouri) Health Department, has [...]

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When dispensing antibiotics, determining who should get which medication is an important question, but the rules can be confusing, and paper forms are not efficient.
Working closely with our partners at the Montgomery County, Maryland, Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, we have developed and released eMedCheck, an electronic medication screening [...]

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