Infectious disease modeler dylanbgeorge, who directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s newest unit, the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, spoke with ScienceInsider about the center’s early days and challenging future.
It definitely impacts what we are trying to do. The end of the public health emergency rescinds some of the authorities for us to collect data from states and localities. It’s going to be a persistent, challenging issue. There are lots of concerns about data privacy, about making sure that data are used appropriately. Those are all valid concerns and we need to be very cognizant of them. Also, there are states’ rights issues.
To fully realize the potential of the CFA we need to work with state and local jurisdictions in a much more intimate way. And CDC’shas to succeed. [Its goal is to] get information from electronic health records, from immunization records, from vital statistics like death records, and from electronic laboratory records from those repositories to public health agencies in a much more streamlined and interoperable and faster way.
We need to think through as a nation how to use data authorities differently so we have a line of sight of what’s happening in our communities and can prepare them to protect themselves from oncoming public health emergencies.out to help researchers develop predictive disease models that health departments or hospitals can use to guide local disease responses, like masking and school openings or closures.
It was that fast, within days. It was really intoxicating to see how an inspired leader with the right information could move very quickly to actually keep the people in that community safe.A: We’ve gotten caught in that crossfire. We’re a startup in government, and are not at full force, so we only asked for half of what we needed in fiscal year 2023. But we are asking now for the full year-on-year budget of $100 million in 2024. We need to get our full budget so we can realize our full potential. I think within my lifetime we are going to face another pandemic of similar or worse magnitude than COVID-19. I’m concerned about not being ready to respond as effectively as we can.
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