New Education and Research Initiatives
Department of Statistics & Data Science Faculty Contribute to CDC Center of Innovation in Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assist with public health emergencies in (CDC) has selected the Delphi Research general as well as those specific to a pathogen. Group as a Center of Innovation in Outbreak To enhance these efforts, the center will Analytics and Disease Modeling. The Delphi collaborate with healthcare industry leaders Center will be part of a CDC national network to increase the level of health information to build the infrastructure needed to improve available to researchers and officials while readiness and response during public health securing patient privacy and anonymity. emergencies. The network will establish “Our work will streamline ingesting as many of connections with state, tribal, local and these [data] signals as possible and then apply territorial public health agencies and other local machine learning and AI tools to data to let and national partners. public health officials know what is happening The Delphi Research Group will develop, and what is likely to happen next,” said Peter refine and test new outbreak analytics and Jhon, executive director of the Delphi Research disease modeling technologies with increased Group and the strategic coordinator of public capabilities while developing tools that can health research initiatives at CMU.
Dietrich College Members of Delphi Research Group
Alex Reinhart, assistant teaching professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science
Will Townes, assistant professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science
Valérie Ventura, professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science
Larry Wasserman, UPMC University Professor, Department of Statistics & Data Science
“Our work will streamline ingesting as many of these [data] signals as possible and then apply machine learning and AI tools to data to let public health officials know what is happening and what is likely to happen next,” — Peter Jhon
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