Ross A. Hammond, April 28, 2009
With cases of swine flu rising in the United States and around the world, health officials are taking action to contain the spread and severity of the disease. Brookings Fellow Ross Hammond discussed the artificial society models he has helped develop that can aid professionals in better understanding how to prepare for and react to epidemics.
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Pandemic Disease, Global Health, Agent-based Models, Technology, U.S. Economy
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Reuters/Adrees Latif - Influenza virus cells, high-lighted through a florescent microscope
The NIH Director's Pioneer Award is among the most competitive and prestigious awards in American research, designed to support scientists of extraordinary creativity for high-risk projects with the potential to have a transformative impact in the biomedical or behavioral sciences.
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Joshua M. Epstein, December 02, 2008
Brookings’s Center on Social and Economic Dynamics has pioneered a model that forecasts how infectious diseases like the flu spread. Center director Joshua Epstein says the Obama administration should use modeling to avert pandemic outbreaks and restore faith in the public health system.
Health Care, Agent-based Models, Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Pandemic Disease
SPOTLIGHT: Financial Markets

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Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young, September 2008
In the latest version of their paper, Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young show that it is extremely difficult to devise incentive schemes that distinguish between fund managers who cannot deliver excess returns from those who can, unless investors have specific knowledge of the investment strategies being employed.
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Financial Markets, Financial Institutions