Opinion: Mathematical models: a key tool for outbreak response

Affiliations

¹ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; lofgrene@vbi.vt.edu.
² Department of Biostatistics and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195;
³ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061;
⁴ Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602;
⁵ Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143;
⁶ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032;
⁷ Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115;
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109;
⁹ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; Department of Computer Science.
¹⁰ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501;
¹¹ Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation.
¹² Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
¹³ Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118; and.
¹⁴ Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

Eric T Lofgren et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014.

. 2014 Dec 23;111(51):18095-6.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1421551111. Epub 2014 Dec 10.

¹ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; lofgrene@vbi.vt.edu.
² Department of Biostatistics and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195;
³ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061;
⁴ Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602;
⁵ Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143;
⁶ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032;
⁷ Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115;
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109;
⁹ Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061; Department of Computer Science.
¹⁰ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501;
¹¹ Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation.
¹² Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802;
¹³ Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118; and.
¹⁴ Department of Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.

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