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...
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 $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 National Science Foundation project grant award of $1,000,000 supports the establishment of the Center for Ecosystems Data Integration and Pandemic Early Warning Systems in Western New York. Funded under the NSF Engineering Directorate's Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase I program, the award will support the development of an integrated early warning system to monitor and track emerging pathogens through wastewater surveillance and clinical sampling analysis....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) awarded a $1,487,500 Cooperative Agreement to the University of California, Davis to establish the Center for Insights into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics (CI3P). The Center will pioneer transdisciplinary research initiatives to significantly advance the ability to investigate and understand the pre-emergence phase of pandemics. Key objectives include: Developing innovative sensor systems to detect signals of...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to the University of Chicago to support the Robust Epidemic Surveillance and Modeling (RESUME) project under the Engineering program of the Cross-Directorate Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase I initiative. The grant period runs from August 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The RESUME project will develop predictive modeling capabilities and open data platforms to inform pandemic response decision making. An...
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 (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement on September 1, 2024 under its Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of Tennessee to establish the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Pandemic Expansion (APPEX). The APPEX Center will bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners to study how complex combinations of factors, such as biomedical, ecological, socio-behavioral, and environmental conditions, can allow...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports the Center for Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies (MAPPS) at Brown University. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the $999,211 award will develop tools and models to analyze human mobility and social interaction data in order to predict and prevent future pandemics. Key deliverables include organizing existing data on mobility and social mixing into a publicly available database, developing...
This $201,299 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop novel predictive models of epidemic spread dynamics and validate those models using COVID-19 data. The funding will be used to conduct fundamental research advancing the scientific understanding of how uncertainties in human behavior and pathogen characteristics influence spatial and temporal stochastic epidemic dynamics. Specific aims of the research include developing new predictive dynamic models based on...