The University of North Texas and its local Health Science Center have created the new Center for Computational Epidemiology with a $473,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
The center will continue research started in 2005 by a team that included members of the Health Science Center’s department of biostatistics and the university’s departments of geography, computer science and biology. That team already has developed working models to estimate the pattern of transmission of diseases such as tuberculosis, human papillomavirus and influenza.
Creating tools and models to predict the dynamics of an infectious disease outbreak will be one of the center’s goals. The models will let public health officials see how different scenarios will play out in the event of an outbreak.
The new center will work on the construction of a simulation chamber that will be used to develop the models
and train students and health officials how to use them. Because of all the computer power needed to run the complex models, a computer cluster will be installed at UNT’s Discovery Park to run the simulation chamber, and two portable visualization systems will let people view the chamber operations from Discovery Park and the health science center.
Services.
The center will continue research started in 2005 by a team that included members of the Health Science Center’s department of biostatistics and the university’s departments of geography, computer science and biology. That team already has developed working models to estimate the pattern of transmission of diseases such as tuberculosis, human papillomavirus and influenza.
Creating tools and models to predict the dynamics of an infectious disease outbreak will be one of the center’s goals. The models will let public health officials see how different scenarios will play out in the event of an outbreak.
The new center will work on the construction of a simulation chamber that will be used to develop the models
and train students and health officials how to use them. Because of all the computer power needed to run the complex models, a computer cluster will be installed at UNT’s Discovery Park to run the simulation chamber, and two portable visualization systems will let people view the chamber operations from Discovery Park and the health science center.
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