Global epidemic and mobility model - GLEAM
Transportation systems keep expanding, becoming faster and more efficient, shrinking distances on the planet, and allowing increasing travel volumes. We are more mobile than ever before, and we can mix and interact at degrees and speeds that were unthinkable not so long ago. As a dangerous byproduct, we eased the way to pathogens to spread at unprecedented conditions, leaving our increasingly advanced world also increasingly vulnerable to biological invasions of pandemic proportions.
Through GLEAM, the global epidemic and mobility model, we aim at addressing these challenges by combining real-world data on populations and human mobility with elaborate stochastic models of disease transmission to model the spread of an influenza-like disease around the globe, and test intervention strategies that could minimize the impact of potentially devastating epidemics. A publicly available software based on GLEAM, the GLEAMviz Simulator, can be downloaded from the project webpage www.gleamviz.org.
Through GLEAM, the global epidemic and mobility model, we aim at addressing these challenges by combining real-world data on populations and human mobility with elaborate stochastic models of disease transmission to model the spread of an influenza-like disease around the globe, and test intervention strategies that could minimize the impact of potentially devastating epidemics. A publicly available software based on GLEAM, the GLEAMviz Simulator, can be downloaded from the project webpage www.gleamviz.org.