Behavioral Risk Modeling for Pandemics: Overcoming Challenges and Advancing the Science

Ellen P Carlin1, Koya C Allen1, Jeffrey J Morgan1

  • 1Ellen P. Carlin, DVM, was a Senior Health and Policy Specialist, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, NY. She is now an Assistant Research Professor, Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, Washington, DC. Koya C. Allen, PhD, MS, MSPH, was an Infectious Disease Subject Matter Expert, European Command Headquarters, US Department of Defense, Stuttgart, Germany. She is now a Scientific Officer, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance, Barcelona, Spain. Jeffrey J. Morgan, MS, was a Senior Systems Engineer, Joint Research and Development, Stafford, VA. He is currently a Senior Systems Engineer, iPower, LLC, Reston, VA, and a PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Jean-Paul Chretien, MD, PhD, is a Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Program Agency, Arlington, VA. Suzan Murray, DVM, DACZM, is Program Director and Dawn Zimmerman, DVM, MS, is Director of Wildlife Health and Associate Program Director; both in the Global Health Program, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC. Dawn Zimmerman is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Microbial Disease, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT. Deborah Winslow, PhD, is a Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM.

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|August 20, 2021
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