Who we are#
The Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs brings together groups that have worked on developing and running modeling hubs in different outbreak prediction settings, in collaboration with national and international health agencies, such as the US and European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The initial modeling hubs were developed with a focus on providing nowcasts, forecasts, or scenario projections of outbreaks. While the infrastructure we developed to support these efforts are readily generalizable to other applications, we note that these motivating examples were for applications that focused on (a) predictive modeling and (b) outbreak settings.
Building off of systems designed for influenza forecasting challenges led by the US CDC, the Reich Lab at UMass-Amherst, in collaboration with the US CDC, developed the US COVID-19 Forecast Hub in early 2020 to support COVID-19 forecasting efforts. This infrastructure was later adapted for use by several other modeling hubs:
Funding supporting this work from:
University of Massachusetts as Influenza Forecasting CoE, with COVID supplements since 2020: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Award #U01IP001122, September 2019 - August 2024
Sole-source contract to support hub infrastructure: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Contract #75D30122C12920, August 2022 - August 2023
Sole-source contract to support hub infrastructure development: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Contract #75D30121P10027, February 2021 - February 2022
Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) funding for personnel since June 2022: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) grant #U24GM132013.