Weekly Respiratory Virus Reports for AZ, CO, NM, and UT Integrated into NEC Website
In collaboration with the Navajo Epidemiology Center, ACCIDDA developed a weekly report on the respiratory virus situation in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. The report has been integrated into the NEC website.
Epistorm Tool: Epydemix
Epistorm developed Epydemix, an open-source Python package for epidemic modeling with integrated approximate Bayesian calibration. The package allows users to build, simulate, and analyze stochastic compartmental epidemic models with real-world population structures and interventions. More information on Epydemix is available on the Epistorm website and published in PLOS Computational Biology. To make onboarding easier, Epistorm…
Epistorm-Mix Data Release
The Epistorm-Mix dataset and accompanying technical report are now publicly available. Epistorm-Mix is the first post-pandemic, probability-based survey of social contacts across all ages in the U.S. It provides privacy-preserving contact-level data and population-level contact matrices stratified by age and setting (home, work, school, community). These data are designed to help researchers and public health…
Resilient Shield Launches Tijuana River Dashboard
With partners at the County of San Diego, Resilient Shield has launched its Tijuana River Dashboard: an interactive, real-time environmental health dashboard. The tool compiles and visualizes data from water and air quality tests, sewage spill reports, and resident complaints into a single, accessible map, and provides timely, localized information that enables residents and visitors…
CORI Hosts Community of Practice Webinars
CORI featured Insight Net partners in two of our summer series Community of Practice webinars. In July, University of Utah ForeSITE and Utah Department of Health presented on comprehensive measles preparedness tools and approaches and the application of a click-and-go measles modeling tool to promote vaccination efforts. In August, Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center…
CSTE Peer-to-Peer Technical Assistance for Forecasting and Modeling in Public Health
CSTE is excited to launch the newest iteration of our Peer-to-Peer Technical Assistance for Forecasting and Modeling in Public Health to take place from September 2025-July 2026. CSTE supports increasing epidemiology and surveillance capacity in state, Tribal, local, and territorial health departments, and we are pleased to offer this Peer-to-Peer program to foster collaboration and…
