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Highly contagious transboundary animal diseases present a significant threat to U.S. agricultural infrastructure. To effectively manage disease incursion, it is critical to assess threats, anticipate potential consequences, and develop response plans at the national scale. The Symphony project involves development of innovative tools that will allow assessing the epidemiological impact and economic costs of livestock disease outbreaks at the national scale while reconciling the heterogeneity of the U.S. mainland. This includes exploration of the consequences of countermeasures, vaccination strategies including vaccine effectiveness, and policy on disease spread, economic costs, and depletion of resources. Symphony will allow planners, SMEs, field personnel, and economists to collaborate and immerse themselves in the complex process and decisions that underpin planning. Such interactions allow stakeholders to gain insights about the complex, multiobjective optimization problem that planning often represents. The more planners, SMEs, and personnel interact, the better informed they are about the possibility of conflicting choices and decisions, and the constraints under which they each operate. The Symphony project combines epidemiology, analytics, cloud computing, statistics, and economics.

 

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