Northeastern team led by Alex Vespignani one of groups advising White House on COVID-19

Alex Vespignani and his team at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute are one of several groups creating models used by the White House in preparing guidelines for the COVID-19 outbreak.

The team has developed a new website for this purpose:

Modeling COVID-19 in the United States.

The projections are based on the Global Epidemic and Mobility Model (GLEAM), an individual-based, stochastic, and spatial epidemic model.

Collaborators include CIDID members and others from the institutions below.

Fred Hutch: Betz Halloran

University of Florida: Ira Longini, Natalie Dean

NIH Fogarty Institute: Cecile Viboud, Kaiyuan Sun

ISI Foundation: Maria Litvinova, Corrado Gioannini, Luca Rossi

Bruno Kessler Foundation: Marco Ajelli

Northeastern team members: Alex Vespignani, ‍Matteo Chinazzi‍, Jessica T. Davis, Kunpeng Mu, Ana Pastore y Piontti, Nicole Samay‍‍, Xinyue Xiong

Read the Northeastern news article here.