NSF's Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention program seeks to improve our ability to model and counteract epidemics. A team at Lehigh University is addressing this problem with a special focus on isolated and underserved communities. A first set of communities studied in this project consists of indigenous communities in the US. One of the research thrusts in this project focuses on the application of CatModeling as a general analytical paradigm to address the problem.

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