Public Health Preparedness Modeling

Also suggested by Jason Matheny was the Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM). As the name indicates, it is “designed to help scientists and public health officials create and use spatial and temporal models of emerging infectious diseases.” One nice feature is that it has a Wiki of useful information for installing the software (in [...]

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Version 2.1 of eMedCheck is now available. eMedCheck is an electronic medication screening form that can be run on a PDA. Using this software, POD staff record basic information about each family member. The software uses decision rules to determine which medication each person should receive. It also records the results for later analysis.
Varun [...]

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The same group at the University of Tübingen has a new version of InfluSim, which can “predict the course of an influenza epidemic in a fully susceptible population.”
The new version is a 20MB zip file that I downloaded and then extracted to a folder on my computer’s desktop. I then ran the executable and [...]

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Jason Matheny at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory sent me a list of more computer models for public health emergency preparedness planning. I will posting my comments on these in future posts here.
First up is SimPox from a research team at the Department of Medical Biometry, University of Tübingen. SimPox runs [...]

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