The opportunities and challenges of an Ebola modeling research coordination group

About the Authors: Caitlin Rivers * E-mail: crivers6@jhu.edu Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Maryland, United States of America ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8265-0629 Simon Pollett Affiliations Viral Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Marlyand, United States of America, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Maryland, United States of America, Marie Bashir Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Cecile Viboud Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Maryland, United States of America Citation: Rivers C, Pollett S, Viboud C (2020) The opportunities and challenges of an Ebola modeling research coordination group. In response to the protracted Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the international public health community called for increased attention, coordination, and resources to support the response. [...]it allowed resources such as open access data and parameter estimates to be shared, thereby improving model quality, comparability, and efficiency of the modeling process. [...]we have demonstrated how this model coordination framework could readily be adopted by other groups for future epidemics and indeed has been so in the current COVID-19 outbreak [17].