Defining epidemic modeling as a public service
The world invests heavily in pandemic firewalls such as vaccines and therapeutics, but far less in the analytic intelligence needed to guide their use. Like weather forecasting, epidemic modeling and analytics should be treated as a standing component of the public-health infrastructure.
Authors
- Michael A. Johansson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5090-7722)
- Cécile Viboud
- Justin Lessler
- Madhav Marathe
- Alessandro Vespignani
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Northeastern University (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Institute for Scientific Interchange (IT)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Virginia (US)
- Fogarty International Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Communications Health
- Published
- 2026-10-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s44528-026-00019-0
- Primary Topic
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00