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CDC Awards to Establish National Infectious Disease Forecasting Network

September 21, 2023 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded roughly $262.5 million in grant funding over the next five years to 13 institutions to help establish a national infectious disease and forecasting network known as the Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling Network (OADM). The initiative is spearheaded by the CDC’s Center for...

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