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Title:
Modernizing and Expanding Outbreak Science to Support Better Decision Making During Public Health Crises: Lessons for COVID-19 and Beyond
Authors:
Caitlin Rivers, Elena Martin, Diane Meyer, Thomas V. Inglesby, Anita J. Cicero
Date posted:
March 24, 2020
Publisher:
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Introduction:
The use of infectious disease modeling to support public health decision making, referred to in this report as “outbreak science,” has increased in prominence in the past decade. It has been used in the responses to several major outbreaks, from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, to H1N1 influenza in 2009, to the 2 most recent Ebola outbreaks in West Africa (2014-2016) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2018-current).
