{"57586":{"#nid":"57586","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Predicting a Pandemic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIvanhoe Newswire\u003C\/em\u003E -  August 2008\u003Cbr \/\u003E. . .College professor John Bugge spends a lot of time riding his bike. Preparing for a pandemic? Not so much. \u0022I guess I would have to say I\u0027m a unprepared as anybody else,\u0022 At the H. Miltong Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, researchers say the threat of a modern pandemic is very real. \u0022I would like to say we don\u0027t have to plan for it, but the truth is, we expect that it\u0027s coming, it\u0027s just a matter of when it comes,\u0022 Julie Swann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech told Ivanhoe. \u0022What\u0027s different about the research that we\u0027re doing is it really looks at the aspects that relate to the spread of the disease over time and over geography,\u0022 Dr. Swann said. The model can also be used for distributing food and vaccine, so providers can plan ahead. \u0022For example if you\u0027re interested in opening food distribution facilities, depending on the number of infected people it will tell you where you should open facilities where you should close them, and how you should allocate your resources,\u0022 Pinar Keskinocak, Ph.D., Operations researcher at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, told Ivanhoe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ivanhoe.com\/science\/story\/2008\/08\/464a.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ivanhoe.com\/science\/story\/2008\/08\/464a.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2008-08-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:29","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-08-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}