Pitt Receives Grant to Help Stop Global Spread of Infectious Diseases

PITTSBURGH -- To help select new vaccines that will have the best chances of stopping global infectious disease outbreaks, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health has received a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will fund the creation of computer simulations of epidemics, showing worst—and best—case outbreak scenarios, which will be used to evaluate new vaccine technologies and modes of vaccine delivery.