Pandemic Modeling Tools

Resources to help hospital administrators and state and local health officials prepare for the next influenza pandemic.

• Software: CommunityFlu 2.0
  Designed to enable public health officials, policy makers, and students of infectious diseases to examine the spread of influenza pandemic through a community.
• Software: FluAid 2.0
  Designed to help state and local public health officials plan, prepare, and practice for the next flu pandemic.
• Software: FluSurge 2.0
  Spreadsheet-based model that provides hospital administrators and public health officials with estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next flu pandemic.
• FluLabSurge 1.0
  A spreadsheet-based program designed to assist laboratory directors forecast demand for specimen testing during the next influenza pandemic (i.e., the surge in demand), and develop response plans.
• Software: FluWorkLoss 1.0
  Estimates the potential number of days lost from work due to an influenza pandemic.
• Instructions for using FluAid and FluSurge [467 KB, 42 pages]
  Includes basic instructions for the software programs FluAid and FluSurge as well as a template of a draft report.