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Posted on August 13, 2012 in Technology by Mod7
Using real data about sex and drugs, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University was able to create a detailed computer model that mimics the real-life spread of HIV. This model can be used to test different prevention and treatment models.
" Policymakers struggling to stop the spread of HIV grapple with “what if” questions on the scale of millions of people and decades of time. They need a way to predict the impact of many potential interventions, alone or in combination. In two papers to be presented at the 2012 International AIDS Society Conference in Washington, D.C., Brandon Marshall, assistant professor of epidemiology at Brown University, will unveil a computer program calibrated to model accurately the spread of HIV in New York City over a decade and to make specific predictions about the future of the epidemic under various intervention scenarios. "
Source: Fast Co.Design, Brown University