Public Health Preparedness Modeling

The September-October 2009 issue of Interfaces is the special issue with the 2008 Wagner Prize Papers.
The paper Modeling and Optimizing the Public Health Infrastructure for Emergency Response, by Eva K. Lee, Chien-Hung Chen, Ferdinand Pietz, and Bernard Benecke, is a useful overview of the models that this group has developed in collaboration with [...]

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This week at the INFORMS Annual Meeting here in San Diego there have been some interesting talks on public health preparedness.
At the University of South Florida, Tapas Das is leading a team with experts in industrial engineering, public health, and medical anthropology to develop surveillance and simulation techniques to build a real-time mitigation strategy for [...]

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