Healthcare Innovation August 18, 2021
The new center’s goal is to accelerate access to data for public health decision-makers who need information to mitigate the effects of disease threats
Seeking to ensure that the United States is better prepared to respond to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is creating a center designed to advance the use of forecasting and outbreak analytics in public health decision making.
The stated goal of the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics is to bring together public health data, expert disease modelers, public health emergency responders, and high-quality communications, to meet the needs of decision makers. CDC said the new center would accelerate access to and use of data for public health decision-makers...