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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) today announced that the University of Michigan will receive $6,992,210 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to work with the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) as a part of the nation’s first national network for outbreak response and disease modeling. This funding will be used to focus on integrating promising approaches—pilot testing them at the state and local levels—to learn from the practical application of new tools in a real world setting so those lessons can be applied throughout the network. 

This project builds on a partnership originally established in 2016 between the University of Michigan School of Public Health and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, and will develop modeling tools and data analytic pipelines, expanding work on a data visualization and analytic platform utilized by state and local public health officials to support their decision-making.

"The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of investing in resources to better predict and prepare for future public health emergencies," Dingell said. "This funding for the University of Michigan will advance tools to support our state and local public health officials in the event of future pandemics. I am proud that U-M remains a national leader in strengthening our public health capabilities."

The University of Michigan is one of 13 recipients that will comprise the new network. At the core of this network is the belief that partnership and collaboration between academia, public health agencies, and the private sector is critical to advancing the capabilities we need to better protect the American people from public health threats.  This investment is an important step in improving U.S. outbreak response by bring additional support to state and local public health decision makers.

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