CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network
Health IT Analytics September 21, 2023
The CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics has awarded over $260 million to 13 infectious disease forecasting and analytics centers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded roughly $262.5 million in grant funding over the next five years to 13 institutions to help establish a national infectious disease and forecasting network known as the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network (OADM).
The initiative is spearheaded by the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) following a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) launched in May. Per the NOFO, the funding will support the creation of a cooperative agreement-based program aimed at assisting state and local public health stakeholders working to develop and deploy analytics tools for future...