Research Summaries

Back Epidemiology Studies

Fiscal Year 2014
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Operations Research
Investigator(s) Dimitrov, Nedialko B.
Sponsor University of Texas, Austin (Other)
Summary The spread of communicable diseases like influenza, walking pneumonia, meningitis and SARS pose a significant threat to military readiness. Prevention and control of the spread of illness is of great interests to the Navy. A series of projects are anticipated to be conducted by the collaborators to enhance current knowledge on various topics such as disease transmission, risk factors, surveillance and screening methods, prevention and treatment. Each project is described in Appendix A.
The University of Texas at Austin brings expertise in the field of mathematical epidemiology. Researchers have designed network-based mathematical methods to study the complexity of disease transmission, human behavior and the evolution of dangerous microbes.
Naval Postgraduate School’s Dr. Dimitrov specializes in applying network modeling and stochastic combinatorial optimization to disease control and security.
The collaborators will leverage each other’s expertise to develop mathematical methods, models and algorithms as well as design and produce software tools.
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