title: The Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD): Facilitating the Use of Epidemiological Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance.
abstract: Epidemiological modeling for infectious disease is important for disease management and its routine implementation needs to be facilitated through better description of models in an operational context. A standardized model characterization process that allows selection or making manual comparisons of available models and their results is currently lacking. A key need is a universal framework to facilitate model description and understanding of its features. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has developed a comprehensive framework that can be used to characterize an infectious disease model in an operational context. The framework was developed through a consensus among a panel of subject matter experts. In this paper, we describe the framework, its application to model characterization, and the development of the Biosurveillance Analytics Resource Directory (BARD; http://brd.bsvgateway.org/brd/), to facilitate the rapid selection of operational models for specific infectious/communicable diseases. We offer this framework and associated database to stakeholders of the infectious disease modeling field as a tool for standardizing model description and facilitating the use of epidemiological models.
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kristen J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Margevicius
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Generous
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Esteban
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Abeyta
authors.affiliation: Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Althouse
authors.affiliation: Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burkom
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Ashlynn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Daughton
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Sara Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Del Valle
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Geoffrey
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fairchild
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Hyman
authors.affiliation: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.|NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Andrew P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.affiliation: Distributed Systems Research, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Carmen M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Pancerella
authors.affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pullum
authors.affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America.
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramanathan
authors.affiliation: National Center for Disaster Preparedness, The Earth Institute-Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schlegelmilch
authors.affiliation: USDA APHIS Veterinary Services, Science, Technology, and Analysis Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Kirsten J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Taylor-McCabe
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vespignani
authors.affiliation: Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America.
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deshpande
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical
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