# Center for Pandemic Decision Science **Entity class:** Research center **Director:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] **Public identity:** [@UTPandemics](https://x.com/UTPandemics) The **Center for Pandemic Decision Science** at [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]] integrates epidemic modeling, surveillance, behavioral science, uncertainty, and decision analysis to support the prevention, detection, containment, and mitigation of infectious-disease threats. It carries forward capabilities built through the [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]] while addressing a wider class of present and future outbreaks. The center’s decision-science role is important: it treats a forecast as an input to intervention design. The object is not only to predict a curve, but to compare testing, vaccination, treatment, behavioral, school, hospital, and other response strategies under uncertainty. ## Relationships - **directed by:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]]. - **research lineage:** [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]] and [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]]. - **institutional network:** [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]], [[wiki/Dell Medical School|Dell Medical School]], [[wiki/Texas Advanced Computing Center|TACC]], and the broader [[wiki/John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease|LaMontagne Center]] infectious-disease community. - **current outbreak-analytics partner:** [[wiki/epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics|epiENGAGE]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Center for Pandemic Decision Science](https://www.centerforpandemicdecisionscience.org/) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [Lauren Ancel Meyers — Integrative Biology](https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-ancel-meyers) (accessed 2026-09-23).