IDM is currently working on disease transmission dynamics for malaria, measles, polio, tuberculosis, HIV, pneumonia, typhoid, COVID-19, and many other diseases. Other areas of study include maternal, newborn, and child health conditions and interventions; health delivery strategies; health system access and effectiveness; family planning interventions; genomic surveillance; pathogen evolution; drug resistance; and other phenomena.
We believe collaboration can magnify the impact of our work, so we work to build collaborations with partners worldwide, including universities, nongovernmental organizations, government ministries, and other research and public health institutions to achieve positive, important, and long-lasting impacts on the health of people most in need.
To achieve our goals, we develop deep expertise in the topics we work on and we develop customized high-fidelity and high-performance computer models. Our dedicated software team develops the tools researchers at IDM and our collaborating institutions need to answer policy questions, inform investments, and achieve our long-term research goals. These tools are flexible, fast, and robust. One example is our Epidemiological MODeling (EMOD) software platform, which enables large-scale agent-based models to run on cloud services, on-premise devices, and supercomputers. This software is open source and is made freely available to the global scientific community.