Dean, Natalie E. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3884-0921
Rivers, Caitlin M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NU38FT000001)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NU38FT000004)
Article History
First Online: 30 March 2026
Competing interests
: N.D. is deputy director of the Emory Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics & Training Hub (CIDMATH), and C.R. is director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Outbreak Response Innovations (CORI); both centers receive funding from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA). N.D. serves as a chief statistical advisor to Nature Medicine . C.R. receives payments as a professional writer, including from a trade book, a newsletter, and essays.