Burton Singer – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu Building business on innovation Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:48:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/favicon-blue_1.png Burton Singer – UF Innovate https://innovate.research.ufl.edu 32 32 AI and Epidemiology: Can Combining the Two Predict Pandemics? https://innovate.research.ufl.edu/ai-and-epidemiology-can-combining-the-two-predict-pandemics/ Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://scaddev1.com/ai-and-epidemiology-can-combining-the-two-predict-pandemics/ What if, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to forecast how populations should respond to lockdowns and policy changes? What if we could anticipate outbreaks of dengue, influenza, and HIV? What if we were one step ahead of infection across diseases and regions? 

With AI, these possibilities are closer than we think. In just 60 years, the United Nations expects the world’s population to peak at approximately 10.3 billion, roughly 2.1 billion more than the current count. With a rapidly growing population, disease modeling is more crucial than ever. Infectious disease experts race to leverage artificial intelligence to predict the next disease outbreak before it reaches pandemic-level potential.  

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