The pandemic influenza policy model: a planning tool for military public health officials.
The Pandemic Influenza Policy Model (PIPM) is a collaborative computer modeling effort between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Many helpful computer simulations exist for examining the propagation of pandemic influenza in civilian populations. We believe the mission-oriented nature and structured social composition of military installations may result in pandemic influenza intervention strategies that differ from those recommended for civilian populations. Intervention strategies may differ between military bases because of differences in mission, location, or composition of the population at risk. The PIPM is a web-accessible, user-configurable, installation-specific disease model allowing military planners to evaluate various intervention strategies. Innovations in the PIPM include expanding on the mathematics of prior stochastic models, using military-specific social network epidemiology, utilization of DoD personnel databases to more accurately characterize the population at risk, and the incorporation of possible interventions, e.g., pneumococcal vaccine, not examined in previous models.
Feighner
Brian H
BH
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.
Chrétien
Jean-Paul
JP
Murphy
Sean P
SP
Skora
Joseph F
JF
Coberly
Jacqueline S
JS
Dietz
Jerrold E
JE
Chaffee
Jennifer L
JL
Sikes
Marvin L
ML
Mabee
Mimms J
MJ
Russell
Bruce P
BP
Gaydos
Joel C
JC
D003198:Computer Simulation; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D014943:Global Health; D006285:Health Planning; D006801:Humans; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008887:Military Medicine; D008889:Military Personnel; D008954:Models, Biological; D017146:Models, Organizational; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015980:Public Health Practice; D012944:Social Support; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology