Highlights
- Insight Net is made up of nearly 130 partners across 30 states who develop tools to support state and local public health response.
- CFA funds Insight Net’s work, building capacity to identify and respond to infectious disease outbreaks before they have time to spread.
What does Insight Net do?
Outbreaks often start at the local level, and it's important that we have tools to stop them here too. In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) established Insight Net to build disease modeling capacity across the country. Insight Net partners rely on collaboration for innovation. They listen to what communities need, working side-by-side with state and local health departments. Then they develop technological solutions that simplify decision-making centered on local priorities, instead of prescribing solutions on a national scale. Together, the network and their partners implement forward-thinking outbreak solutions to drive better, more precise, action while preventing costly disruptions to the American way of life.
Who is included in the network?
The core of Insight Net is 13 partners, from across sectors, who are funded through the CFA's Centers for Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling cooperative agreement. This group of 13 collaborates with nearly 130 additional state, local, private, public, and academic partners across 30 states, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
The network builds, tests, and employs tools that:
- Assess disease threats
- Forecast the trajectory of outbreaks where they begin
- Inform public health decision-making at the state and local level
Supporting Disease Modeling
Insight Net invests in transforming the country's disease forecasting, modeling, and simulation capacities by combining tools like machine learning and artificial intelligence with the best available technologies and science. To date, CDC has awarded more than $148 million to Insight Net partners through the cooperative agreement. These partners are innovation hubs. Empowered by CFA, Insight Net is using infectious disease outbreak data to help drive more precise, life-saving decisions during public health emergencies.
Funded partners
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Kaiser Permanente Southern California
Northeastern University
University of California, San Diego
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Texas, Austin
University of Utah