Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis

Freya M Shearer; Robert Moss; Jodie McVernon; Joshua V Ross; James M McCaw

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003018

Infectious disease pandemic planning and response: Incorporating decision analysis

PLoS Med. 2020 Jan 9;17(1):e1003018. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003018. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Freya M Shearer¹, Robert Moss¹, Jodie McVernon^{1

2

3}, Joshua V Ross⁴, James M McCaw^{1

2

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Modelling and Simulation Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
² Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and The University of Melbourne, Australia.
³ Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
⁵ School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Freya Shearer and co-authors discuss the use of decision analysis in planning for infectious disease pandemics.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Antiviral Agents / administration & dosage
Communicable Diseases / epidemiology*
Decision Support Techniques*
Disaster Planning / methods*
Disaster Planning / trends
Humans
Influenza, Human / epidemiology
Influenza, Human / prevention & control
Pandemics / prevention & control*

Substances

Antiviral Agents

Grants and funding

This material is based upon work supported by the US Army International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC) under Contract No. W90GQZ-70660019, which supports FMS. JMcV is supported by a NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship (GNT1117140). RM is supported by an Australian Defence Science Technology Group research agreement (ID 8720). This work was also supported in part by PRISM2, a NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (GNT1078068). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.