# Who we are

The Consortium of Infectious Disease Modeling Hubs brings together groups working on developing and running modeling hubs in different outbreak prediction settings in collaboration with national and international health agencies, such as the US and European Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The initial modeling hubs were developed to provide nowcasts, forecasts, or scenario projections of outbreaks. While the infrastructure we created to support these efforts is readily generalizable to other applications, we note that these motivating examples were for applications that focused on (a) predictive modeling and (b) outbreak settings.

Building off of systems designed for influenza forecasting challenges led by the US CDC, the [Reich Lab at UMass-Amherst](https://reichlab.io/), in collaboration with the [US CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/), developed the [US COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://covid19forecasthub.org/) in early 2020 to support COVID-19 forecasting efforts. This infrastructure was later adapted for use by several other modeling hubs:

 - [German/Poland COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://github.com/KITmetricslab/covid19-forecast-hub-de)
 - [US COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub](https://github.com/midas-network/covid19-scenario-modeling-hub)
 - [European COVID-19 Forecast Hub](https://github.com/covid19-forecast-hub-europe/covid19-forecast-hub-europe)
 - [German Hospitalization Nowcast Hub](https://github.com/KITmetricslab/hospitalization-nowcast-hub)
 - [US Influenza FluSight 2022 Challenge](https://github.com/cdcepi/Flusight-forecast-data)

## Funding supporting this work
 - US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC), Cooperative Agreement (U01IP001122), September 2019 - August 2024
 - US CDC, Sole-source Contract (75D30122C12920), August 2022 - August 2023
 - US CDC, Sole-source contract (75D30121P10027), February 2021 - February 2022
 - National Institute of General Medical Sciences, MIDAS Coordination Center grant (U24GM132013), July 2019 - June 2024.
 - National Institute of General Medical Sciences, MIDAS Coordination Center grant (R24GM153920), July 2024 - June 2029.
 - US CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Insight Net Center of Implementation based at UT-Austin and UMass-Amherst (NU38FT000008), Sept 2023 - Aug 2028.
 - US CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Insight Net Center of Innovation based at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins University (NU38FT000012), Sept 2023 - Aug 2028.

## Hubverse retreat
Our second annual “hubverse retreat” was held June 3-7, 2024 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This year’s retreat focused on the future of hubs in the cloud, dashboarding, and the archiving of hub data using hubverse standards.

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Back row (L-R): Becky Sweger, Nick Reich, Kimberlyn Roosa, Martha Zorn, Matt Cornell\
Front row (L-R): Evan Ray, Melissa Kerr, Rebecca Borchering, Emily Howerton, Lucie Contamin, Anna Krystalli
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