This $2 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations supports the development of predictive modeling tools to aid pandemic prevention and response efforts. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the 18-month award to Boston Children's Hospital will plan a future center-scale effort to address gaps in understanding and modeling pandemic potential, impact of interventions, and factors...
This $1,999,688 National Science Foundation Project Grant supports the development of predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention through transdisciplinary innovation. Funded by NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), the two-year award to the University of California, Davis enables advancement of predictive capabilities for forecasting pandemic risk through three key research areas. First, the team will characterize environmental conditions and human...
This $200,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports the Florida Institute For Human & Machine Cognition Inc. to develop computational theory and models examining the co-evolution of pandemics, information, and human behavior. Key deliverables include interdisciplinary research examining integrated computational models of how information and human psychology impact pandemic transmission. The grantee...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Maryland, College Park $1,999,074 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "PIPP PHASE I: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Messaging and Modeling during Pandemics." The goal of the project is to develop models and tools to help public health officials and policymakers more effectively communicate and respond during future pandemics. Specifically, the university...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) supports research investigating the "pandemic lifecycle" through three collaborating institutions in North Carolina. Duke University serves as the primary awardee and will lead efforts to establish working groups examining fundamental questions around how infectious diseases spread locally and regionally. A pilot study aims to develop simulation...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 project grant to Phoenix, Arizona to support research investigating the long-term impacts of pandemic disease. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant will fund research exploring the long-term societal and economic effects of pandemics. In line with the program's goals of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers awarded the University of Georgia Research Foundation a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) federal grant program. The grant funds the PIPP PHASE I: HETEROGENEOUS MODEL INTEGRATION FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE INTELLIGENCE project from August 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The project aims to develop a systems-of-systems framework to integrate knowledge from different disciplinary approaches for infectious...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, provides $700,000 over 3 years to Northeastern University to develop mathematical models and computational algorithms that incorporate group-level behavioral responses into epidemic models. The research aims to better understand how social interactions, risk-mitigating norms, and the formation of pandemic "social bubbles" influence the trajectories of...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the development of a Center for Pandemic Decision Science at the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The Center aims to advance the integration of complex systems science into pandemic decision-making through a series of multidisciplinary workshops, pilot studies, and educational/community outreach activities. Key goals include identifying...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $200,151 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California, Los Angeles for the period of September 1, 2022 through February 29, 2024. The award will support development of a prototype pandemic early warning system powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and open-source technologies. The system will monitor biological,...