Visual Response Simulator: Agent-Based Predictive Modeling for Humanitarian Epidemiological Response

Models of infectious disease outbreaks are essential to optimize health crisis response, especially in complex environments. It informs pharmaceutical distribution, immunization campaigns, medical care deployment, security provisions, and more. While data-driven approaches are standard they remain largely reactive, focusing on what happened and not taking advantage of newer, algorithmic methods that enable responders to instead ask what could happen and do so safely, cheaply, and effectively.