Public Health Preparedness Modeling

New recommendations by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force about routine mammograms are getting lots of attention (see statement published today in Annals of Internal Medicine).
Although this topic is not directly related to public health preparedness, it is interesting that the justification for the new recommendations includes the results of six mathematical models. The [...]

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The University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy maintains a web site called Promising Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools. One can download the practices directly from this web site.
The practices, developed by different states and local jurisdictions, are organized into the following topics: types of patient care, communication, community disease mitigation, and [...]

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