PandemiX Center mission og programmer

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PandemiX - a Center to study pandemic diseases

The goal of PandemiX is to build a comprehensive understanding of the forces that shape pandemic trajectories from origin to endgame, as we describe and quantify the signature features of pandemics present and past.

真人线上娱乐 bring together in one Center a diverse team of experts with four core competencies: mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, historical epidemiology, clinical research, and bioinformatics. With a common quantitative focus, Center researchers bring their various skill sets to bear on a set of central questions that frame pandemics as a cyclical process, from its origin through its endgame.

Our work relies on tools and approaches from four distinct core competencies. 真人线上娱乐 will develop new mechanistic transmission models to predict a pandemic¡¯s spread and evolutionary trajectory. But mechanistic models alone are blind; biological data on the pathogen, health outcomes and surveillance data from the human population and the historical and societal context are also necessary. Thus, we will also use Bioinformatics to reveal the genetic traits that characterize an evolving pathogen, providing crucial insight into the evolutionary path of emerging pathogens throughout a pandemic. Clinical research using patient-level data will shed light on pandemic population impact, the effects of vaccination, changes in population immunity, and long-term sequelae. Historical epidemiology combines analysis of archival health data with historical study of the societal and demographic context to elucidate past pandemic signatures. Bringing these competencies together in an interdisciplinary environment is the core of our strategy.