At a Glance: Scientific Vision | Goals of the Center

Scientific Vision of the Center

Our APPEX Center, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, will meaningfully advance pandemic science as a multidisciplinary effort.

We will help ensure that the vision of pandemic science is not simply about filling in knowledge gaps but is about framing how to meet complex challenges, improving both our ability to respond to existing disease threats and to be flexible, nimble, and adaptable to the next emerging pathogen we cannot yet anticipate.
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How We Work


Everything about APPEX is focused on multidisciplinary science.


Our core team has a wide range of expertise and our protocol for involving outside participants in our Working Groups ensures we can recruit additional expertise whenever we discover a gap or whenever a gap-filler finds us!


The APPEX Center focuses on enabling multidisciplinary collaborations specifically focused on combinatorial risk scenarios that need simultaneous consideration by multiple academic domains and disciplines.



Develop rigorous hierarchy of evidence for pandemic risk

Provide improved methodologies for scenario-to-scenario comparison

Create and meet audacious challenges in multidisciplinary hypothesis generation, model/tool building, and information infrastructure


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. 2412115. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation