Research areas

Diagnostics

• Creating universal approaches for the discovery and detection of all pathogens
• Improving strain identification and characterization of drug resistance and related virulence factors
• Key Contacts:
  • Elizabeth Hong-Geller
  • Harshini Mukundan
  • Ricardo Marti-Arbona
  • Mietta Lillo

Predictive Modeling

• The Global Disease Modeling & Forecasting Center (pdf) combines Los Alamos capabilities and key partnerships to develop, validate, and operationalize epidemiological models to combat infectious diseases.
• Building epidemiological models capable of incorporating disease mechanisms from diverse datasets
• Developing theory and modeling to predict disease progression in a host
• Providing decision makers with validated epidemiological models for disease forecasting and prediction
• Key contacts:
  • Sara Del Valle
  • Ben McMahon
  • Paul Fenimore

Decision Support

• Developing visual analytics and databases for infectious disease surveillance
  • Bioinformatics
  • Health informatics
• Developing and assessing new data streams that can be used for disease surveillance
• Developing and integrating Los Alamos capabilities in disease biology, public health, epidemiology, medical diagnostics, statistical and computational analysis, and database management to create decision support tools
• Key contacts:
  • Alina Deshpande
  • Reid Priedhorsky
  • Patrick Chain
  • Geoff Fairchild
  • Hari Khalsa