Cornell Institute for Disease & Disaster Preparedness

The Cornell Institute for Disease and Disaster Preparedness (CIDDP), co-directed by Dr. Nathaniel Hupert (Weill Cornell Medicine) and Prof. Jack Muckstadt (Cornell Engineering), grew out of many years of collaborative work involving a range of academic specialties related to preparation for and response to natural and man-made disasters and disease epidemics.

CIDDP efforts advance research and education in the field of public health response logistics, the systematic study of physical and human infrastructures, materials and supplies, transport resources, information and communication systems, business processes, decision support systems and command and control systems required to respond quickly and appropriately to health crises.

Interlinked Goals

Primary research through theoretical modeling, model validation activities and development of decision support tools for improved health system response to pressing threats including COVID-19, pandemic influenza, bioterrorism and other emerging infections such as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
Education of the nation's next generation of engineers and public health practitioners and researchers, with combined expertise in both the quantitative techniques of operations research (simulation, mathematical modeling and statistical analysis) and the applied field of public health system research
Outreach to end-users, including hospitals, health systems, federal, state, regional and local public health officials, insurance and risk management entities, data integrators and information system developers capable of translating pilot projects into widely available decision support tools

Pandemic Response Planning Tools

COVID-19 Research

Other CIDDP Research

Non-COVID Response Logistics Modeling Tools and Reports

Publications

Key Personnel

Vaccine Distribution Model

Major Weill Cornell Medicine Public Health Response Logistics Models and Reports

Date	Model Name	Client	Development Lead
2002	Weill Cornell Medicine Bioterrorism and Epidemic Outbreak Response	U.S. Health & Human Services (HHS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)	N. Hupert, D. Wattson
2004	Community-Based Mass Prophylaxis: A Planning Guide for Public Health Preparedness	U.S. HHS AHRQ	N. Hupert, J. Cuomo and S. Morse
2004-09	Regional Hospital Caseload Calculator	U.S. HHS AHRQ	N. Hupert, J. Cuomo and D. Wattson
2005	Hospital Surge Capacity Optimization and Utilization Tool	U.S. HHS AHRQ	N. Hupert and D. Wattson
2005-07	Catastrophic Patient Allocation	U.S. HHS AHRQ	J. Muckstadt, S. Chinchalkar, N. Hupert and W. Xiong
2006	Triage and Surge Capacity Tool (TriSCT)	U.S. HHS AHRQ and Columbia University National Center for Disaster Preparedness	N. Hupert, E. Hollingsworth and W. Xiong
2006-07	Stochastic Simulation of Health System Response to Large-Scale Epidemics		J. Muckstadt, D. Murray, P. Jackson, W. Xiong, E. Hollingsworth and N. Hupert
2007	LabMod	Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative	W. Xiong, E. Hollingsworth and N. Hupert
2007	Hospital Self-Prophylaxis	NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital	W. Xiong, E. Hollingsworth, N. Hupert, J. Muckstadt, J. Vorenkamp and E. Lazar
2007	Stochastic HIV/AIDS Treatment Scale-Up in Sub-Saharan Africa	Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative	J. Muckstadt, M. Al-Gwaiz, W. Xiong, K. King, E. Hollingsworth and N. Hupert
2008-09	Hospital Preparedness Exercises Guidebook; Pocket Guide and Atlas of Resources and Tools	U.S. HHS AHRQ	M. Cheung M, A-T. Vu, D D. Varlese, W. Xiong and N. Hupert
2010-14	Pharmaceutical-Based Antiviral Dispensing for Pandemic Influenza	U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)	N. Hupert, J. Muckstadt, C. Barnett, R. Chen and K. King

Current Research Highlights

Flu Shots, Measles Vaccines Could Also Help "Flatten the Curve" for COVID-19

January 10, 2022

While the world has celebrated the arrival of highly effective vaccines against COVID-19, new work by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Oxford shows that even unrelated vaccines could help reduce the burden of the pandemic. The study, published Jan. 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, crystallizes decades of evidence...

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Healthcare provider administering a vaccine dose.

Extreme immunotherapy: emergency immunology to defeat pandemics

September 17, 2021

Scientists have learned much about physical interventions, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and vaccination success throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, therapeutic interventions have not been very effective, and successful antiviral drugs have not been introduced at scale. In a new perspective piece in BMC Molecular Medicine, ...

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Association between overcrowded households, multigenerational households, and COVID-19: a cohort study

September 8, 2021

Until now, researchers have not completely understood the association between overcrowded and multigenerational households in New York City and the risk of spreading COVID-19. Nathaniel Hupert, MD, MPH, associate professor of population health sciences; Said Ibrahim, MD, MBA, MPH, professor of population health sciences at the time of the study; Anjile An, MPH, programmer analyst for population health sciences; and colleagues...

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Cornell Institute for Disease & Disaster Preparedness

Interlinked Goals

Major Weill Cornell Medicine Public Health Response Logistics Models and Reports

Current Research Highlights

Faculty & Staff