Collaborative Research: PIPP Workshop: Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens(PREP) to be Held February 15-19, 2021.

该奖项将资助计划于2021年2月15日至19日举行的新发病原体大流行准备（PREP）研讨会。PREP研讨会将促进科学讨论，促进创新和伙伴关系，以增进我们对从分子到生态尺度快速检测和评估新出现的病原体和传染病动态的挑战和潜在解决办法的理解。本次研讨会拟设四个专题讨论：(1)新发病原体快速准确检测与评估面临的挑战；(2)新发病原体快速准确检测与评估方法；(3)监测动物和人的活动、疾病传播的高危界面和高危社区；(4)大流行防范的数据密集型机器学习和建模。通过整合新的传感器工程、流行病学、野生动物和人类健康、生态学、定量社会科学、进化生物学、工程学和计算机科学方面的专业知识，将确定建模、计算数学、数据支持预测科学和决策以及实时智能传感方面的新方法，以改变传染病爆发预测能力。在讲习班之后，组织者计划编写总结讲习班的报告，以便在知名的普通科学媒体上发表，这些报告可用于为大流行预防的预测情报的发展提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will fund the Pandemic Readiness for Emerging Pathogens (PREP) workshop, planned for February 15-19, 2021. The PREP workshop will foster scientific discussion and catalyze innovation and partnerships to enhance our understanding of the challenges and potential solutions to rapid detection and assessment of emerging pathogens and infectious disease dynamics from the molecular to the ecological scale. Four panel topics are planned for this workshop: (1) The Challenges in Rapid and Accurate Detection and Assessment of Emerging Pathogens; (2) Approaches to Rapid and Accurate Detection and Assessment of Emerging Pathogens; (3) Monitoring Animal and Human Movements, High-Risk Interfaces for Disease Transmission, and At-risk Communities; (4) Data-Intensive Machine Learning and Modelling for Pandemic Preparedness. By integrating expertise in new sensor engineering, epidemiology, wildlife, and human health, ecology, quantitative social sciences, evolutionary biology, engineering, and computer science, new approaches in modeling, computational mathematics, data-enabled predictive science and decision making, and real-time intelligent sensing will be identified to transform infectious disease outbreak prediction capabilities. Subsequent to the workshop, the organizers plan to prepare reports summarizing the workshop for publication in high-profile general science outlets which can be used to inform the development of predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.