About the Center
The Center for Pandemic Decision Science brings together researchers, public health leaders and community partners to improve how society prepares for and responds to infectious disease threats.
Mission
The center's mission is to advance public health preparedness and resilience through innovative infectious disease research, forecasting and decision science, applying data and predictive modeling to develop actionable tools and strategies that help communities anticipate and respond to emerging health threats.
Advancing public health preparedness
Research Priorities
- Anticipating novel pathogen threats and detecting them at their source.
- Forecasting and positively influencing individual, collective and governmental responses to pathogen threats.
- Integrating science into every stage of pandemic decision-making, including prevention, detection, containment and mitigation.