NSF APPEX focuses on enabling multidisciplinary collaborations specifically focused on combinatorial risk scenarios that need simultaneous consideration by multiple academic domains and disciplines. In this way, APPEX provides for the development of a rigorous hierarchy of evidence for pandemic risk, leading to improved methodologies for scenario-to-scenario comparison, and creates and meets audacious challenges in multidisciplinary hypothesis generation, model/tool building, and information infrastructure.

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NSF APPEX Goes Beyond

We go beyond existing research on disciplinarily targeted factors affecting pandemic risks and instead provides an enabling framework for synergy, complementing domain-driven research efforts. As such, NSF APPEX ensures that the vision of pandemic science is proactive, focusing on 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 to increase health security regionally, nationally, and globally.

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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