NSF-CDC Joint Funding Opportunity: Mathematical Modeling of Policy Options for Evolving Public Health Challenges (MPOPHC)

The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division (CORVD) will jointly support innovative research in modeling policy options for evolving public health challenges. Mathematical modeling can further the public welfare and national security in many ways, notable among them by increasing understanding of biological phenomena and elucidating matters affecting the success of public health measures to prevent or mitigate infectious diseases. The CDC also has an interest in promoting research to strengthen modeling for the prevention and control, through immunization, of disease, disability and death.

This DCL encourages the submission of research projects aimed at mathematical modeling of the transmission of respiratory pathogens among human hosts, the most likely cause of future pandemics, with a focus on policy options for evolving public health challenges. The proposal submission deadline is June 20, 2024.  

The presentation slides at the webinar held on May 16 have been posted at the webinar page:

https://new.nsf.gov/events/webinar-mathematical-modeling-policy-options/2024-05-16