PandemiX Center

The PandemiX Centre spans multiple scientific disciplines across Department of Science and Environment and sets out to explore the dynamics and impact of pandemics, with an eye towards pandemic prepareredness and policy. We invite insights about pandemic context through students and colleagues in humanities and social science. We wish to understand how pandemics are affected by societal institutions, lifestyle, urban/rual geography, economy and migration. Finally, we will model the effect of mitigation strategies, such as the COVID-19 vaccine and other biomedical interventions.

The purpose of PandemiX Center is to:

• Use mathematical models to investigate patterns and impact of human pandemics and the effect of mitigation strategies
• Bring to Denmark the field of mathematical epidemiology to support decision making in the context of COVID-19 and future pandemics
• Secure robust insights about context, through interdisciplinary collaborations within center members, and external collaborations with social science and the humanities colleagues
• Mentor the next generation of students in quantitative science in infectious disease modelling (mathematical modelling and digital humanities)
• Provide easy access to and visibility of all RUC research related to pandemics