Jonas Lybker Juul
The COVID-19 pandemic has left a devastating impact on societies across the globe, with immediate and indirect costs in terms of human lives, life quality, and economics. Any improvement in how society deals with future pandemics promises a considerable impact economically and health-wise. This proposal will strengthen epidemic preparedness in three ways:
By developing new statistical methods to leverage large-scale genomic sequencing to understand how diseases spread through populations.
By studying how disease mitigation strategies can be both effective and efficient.
By improving key algorithms used when producing forecasts of case numbers in epidemics.
By improving society’s ability to forecast case numbers, infer how diseases spread, and mitigate outbreaks, InForM aims to save human lives and economic costs in future pandemics.