The Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center is developing and testing multiple modeling and analytic tools to support decision-making during public health emergencies. Here are some of the tools in development:

Analyzing Midwest Social Contact Patterns
Our team is collecting data on how many interactions people have with others to better understand how infectious diseases spread through communities and how public health actions can reduce harmful disease outcomes.

Modeling Infectious Diseases and Policy Interventions
Our team is building a tool that estimates how different public health actions may impact infectious disease cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in Minnesota, statewide, and by region.

Identifying Influenza Hotspots and Vaccine Uptake Variation
In collaboration with MDH, our team created a dashboard that can identify influenza hotspots and variation in vaccine uptake to inform public health responses.

Developing a Novel EHR-Based Surveillance Tool
MADMC is developing an EHR-based tool that will identify confirmed or suspected cases of a new disease by analyzing clinical notes with machine learning and natural language processing innovations.

Interviewing Stakeholders to Improve Models and Analytic Tools
MADMC interviewed over 70 stakeholders in Minnesota to assess challenges, facilitators, and areas to improve for using analytic tools to support policy and decision-making.

Rapidly Responding to Human Parvovirus B19
Our team responded to calls from MDH to investigate and inform responses to the recent human parvovirus B19 outbreak, which impacted mothers and babies in Minnesota and across the nation.

Scenario Planning for Novel Disease Outbreaks
Our team is building a user-interactive tool for jurisdictions across the U.S. to use in the early phases of a novel disease outbreak to better prepare for how the disease could impact people living in their area.

Modeling Congenital Syphilis Interventions for Minnesota
MADMC is modeling the potential impacts of interventions to help officials achieve their goal of having zero congenital syphilis cases in Minnesota.

Investigating Tuberculosis Healthcare Use in Minnesota
Our team is quantifying missed opportunities for treating tuberculosis with the aim of identifying promising points of clinical intervention to reduce tuberculosis in our communities.

Building a Measles Vaccine and Outbreak Response Tool
MADMC is working alongside MDH to develop an analytic tool to improve measles outreach, response, and communication in Minnesota.

Forecasting Seasonal Influenza at a Local Level
MADMC is collaborating with Insight Net partners to generate and share influenza forecasts for local Minnesota jurisdictions.

Affiliated Projects

Reversing Overdose Epidemics Through Simulation, Collaboration & Unified Efforts (RESCUE)

RESCUE is a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded project dedicated to creating practical tools to support decision makers with effective and sustainable overdose prevention strategies. The RESCUE team is developing PROFOUND, a simulation and forecasting tool, together with other decision support tools, to help policymakers demonstrate the impact of naloxone distribution and other overdose prevention strategies and address disparities in access across different populations and neighborhoods. The team is currently working to expand this model to fit multiple jurisdictions.