Public Health Preparedness Modeling

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has developed new new recommendations for vaccine allocation.
The target groups and priorities are different from those in the previously released Guidance on Allocating and Targeting Pandemic Influenza Vaccine.
Although the current version can be modified to take these into account, we will be releasing a new version of our [...]

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As part of our collaboration with the Montgomery County, Maryland, Advanced Practice Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, we have developed a Vaccine Allocation Model.
The Vaccine Allocation Model is intended to help public health officials determine how many persons in different target groups can receive treatment if the number of vaccinations available is [...]

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NYU’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness & Response has been developing an agent-based disaster simulation model.
The tool is called Planning with Large Agent-Networks against Catastrophes (PLAN C). According to its web site, PLAN C is designed to help “emergency managers, urban planners and public health officials to prepare and evaluate Pareto-optimal plans to respond to [...]

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