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Developing and deploying a use-inspired metapopulation modeling framework for detailed tracking of stratified health outcomes

fadikar, a.; Stevens, A.; rimer, S.; martinez-moyano, i.; COLLIER, N.; Ozik, J.; macal, c.

2025-05-06 epidemiology
10.1101/2025.05.05.25327021 medRxiv
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Public health experts studying infectious disease spread often seek granular insights into population health outcomes. Metapopulation models offer an effective framework for analyzing disease transmission through subpopulation mixing. These models strike a balance between traditional, homogeneous mixing compartmental models and granular but computationally intensive agent-based models. In collaboration with the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), we developed MetaRVM, an open-source R package for modeling the spread of infectious diseases in subpop-ulations, which can be flexibly defined by geography, demographics, or other stratifications. MetaRVM is designed to support real-time public health decision-making and through its co-creation with CDPH, we have ensured that it is re-sponsive to real-world needs. We demonstrate its flexible capabilities by tracking influenza dynamics within different age groups in Chicago, by integrating an efficient Bayesian optimization-based calibration approach.

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