EpiEarth: Epidemiological & Earth-System Integrated Model for Vector-Borne Disease Risk Prediction
Category: IT/Electrical
Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Product Description:EpiEarth is an open-source software tool with a modular workflow incorporating long-term temperature, ecology and vector population dynamics with disease risk to predict vector-borne diseases like West Nile Virus. With seven key data- or model-driven modules, EpiEarth accurately forecasts vector-borne disease spread at continental scales. EpiEarth enables the prediction of vector-borne disease cases, risk, and the impact of mitigations on potential epidemics. Its ability to predict risk at the day, season and decadal timescale provides the detail necessary to give public health decision-makers the tools to respond to an epidemic and the information to understand how a particular intervention strategy will work immediately and over time. Furthermore, EpiEarth’s modular design allows substitution of different models, diseases or vector species, making the tool generalizable across vector-borne diseases that affect human, livestock and crop health. EpiEarth is a software tool that allows local and regional populations alike to evaluate disease-vector spread, human disease risk, and food availability across our global community.
Developers: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Product Description:EpiEarth is an open-source software tool with a modular workflow incorporating long-term temperature, ecology and vector population dynamics with disease risk to predict vector-borne diseases like West Nile Virus. With seven key data- or model-driven modules, EpiEarth accurately forecasts vector-borne disease spread at continental scales. EpiEarth enables the prediction of vector-borne disease cases, risk, and the impact of mitigations on potential epidemics. Its ability to predict risk at the day, season and decadal timescale provides the detail necessary to give public health decision-makers the tools to respond to an epidemic and the information to understand how a particular intervention strategy will work immediately and over time. Furthermore, EpiEarth’s modular design allows substitution of different models, diseases or vector species, making the tool generalizable across vector-borne diseases that affect human, livestock and crop health. EpiEarth is a software tool that allows local and regional populations alike to evaluate disease-vector spread, human disease risk, and food availability across our global community.
