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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 and Economic Dynamics

December 02, 2008

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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Research and Commentary

H1N1 INFLUENZA

The Costs of Containing H1N1October 05, 2009

H1N1 Containment: Economic Cost and Workforce Effects of School ClosuresSeptember 30, 2009

AGENT-BASED MODELS

How Computer Modeling Can Stem the Spread of InfluenzaAugust 18, 2009

Modelling to Contain PandemicsAugust 06, 2009

Artificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United StatesApril 02, 2008

TERRORISM

Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational ApproachJune 01, 2004

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