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Q&A with Joshua Epstein

How Computer Modeling Can Avert Pandemic Outbreaks

Health Care, Agent-based Models, Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Pandemic Disease

Joshua M. Epstein, Director, Center on Social Dynamics and Policy

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December 02, 2008

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Brookings’s Center on Social and Economic Dynamics has pioneered a model that predicts 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.

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