Funding Agency: 
National Science Foundation

In collaboration with faculty in Public Health and other colleges at OSU, we participate in a National Science Foundation funded project in the Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) initiative. Our grant is a Phase I Development Grant to tackle grand challenges in infectious disease pandemics through prediction and prevention. Our vision is that future cities will attenuate rather than amplify pandemic threats. Our rationale is that this is both necessary and sufficient to avert future pandemics. This grant is entitled PIPP Phase I: Coupling Predictive Intelligence with Adaptive Response to Engineer Pandemic-Resilient Cities. It has these main objectives:

  1. Develop and offer bi-directional training workshops for scientists and public health practitioners on pandemic dynamics.
  2. Develop mathematical and computational models of stepping back across epidemic tipping points.
  3. Ideate scalable feedback loops that predict, and proactively alter, infectious disease transmission rates in cities. As we complete these objectives, our overall goal is to build strong interdisciplinary teams; teams that are ready to tackle the grand challenge of pandemic resilient cities, through a deeper quantitative understanding of contagion processes in complex populations, and by engaging with communities and practitioners to develop sustainable, equitable, and performant solutions.