Enhancing Outbreak Analytics and Forecasting with Electronic Health Records

Sponsor/Partner: CDC/Kaiser (PI Lewnard)
Project Description/Goals: A collaboration between research scientists at Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) and academic modeling team based in University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Francisco as part of the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling (OADM) Network to improve existing pathogen surveillance toolkit (i.e., computational intractability of existing high-dimensional models and the need for enhanced nowcasting) and methodological innovations will be conducted in parallel with assessment of STLT public health department needs.  
 CTML Faculty Involved: Alan Hubbard Ph.D. and Alejandro Schuler Ph.D.