Public Health Preparedness Modeling

For public health emergency preparedness planners and the researchers who are developing models for this community.

Entries from August 2008

The Great Pandemic

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments

The Great Pandemic is a website that covers the influenza pandemic in the United States in 1918 and 1919. It includes details of what happened in each state and documents about the pandemic, including a map of showing the spread of the pandemic across the country. The site also has lists of additional [...]

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Containing Pandemic Flu

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

My collaborator Kay Aaby forwarded to me a link to an news article about research that used computer simulations to model the hypothetical spread of flu pandemic in the city of Chicago under various containment scenarios. The research was published in a paper that appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]

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