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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Commentary
How Computer Modeling Can Avert Pandemic Outbreaks
December 2, 2008