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Jeffrey Shaman Wins CDC’s “Predict the Influenza Season” Contest

June 19, 2014

The Centers for Disease control and Prevention has awarded first prize for its “Predict the Influenza Season Challenge” to a team led by Jeffrey Shaman, an assistant professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a scientist affiliated with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society. Shaman and colleagues developed a scientifically […]

This Week’s Forecast: What Flu Season May Look Like

January 16, 2014 — New York Times

Flu Forecasting Website Posts First Predictions

January 13, 2014

Ongoing Flu Season Is Predicted to Peak in January for Most of the Country NEW YORK (January 13, 2014)—Infectious disease experts at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health have launched a website that reports weekly predictions for rates of season influenza in 94 cities in the United States based on a scientifically validated system. The […]