# City of Austin **Entity class:** Municipal government **Public account:** [@austintexasgov](https://x.com/austintexasgov) The **City of Austin** is the municipal government of Austin, Texas. In the Meyers pandemic-modeling cluster, the city is the local decision environment in which epidemic forecasts, hospital-capacity projections, staged-alert designs, testing strategies, and other analyses were translated into planning and public communication. The city government and [[wiki/Austin Public Health|Austin Public Health]] should remain analytically distinct. The city supplies municipal authority and executive decision processes; Austin Public Health supplies the specialized public-health department, surveillance, contact-tracing, and health-response functions. During COVID-19, both interacted with [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]], [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|the UT consortium]], [[wiki/Dell Medical School|Dell Medical School]], and regional health systems. ## Relationships - **public-health department:** [[wiki/Austin Public Health|Austin Public Health]]. - **decision-support partners:** [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]], [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]], [[wiki/Dell Medical School|Dell Medical School]], and [[wiki/Texas Advanced Computing Center|TACC]]. - **regional research environment:** [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas at Austin]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Virtual Town Hall for the Medical Community — Dell Medical School](https://dellmed.utexas.edu/virtual-town-hall-for-the-medical-community) (2020–2021 event archive; accessed 2026-09-23). - [UT Students Rise to the Occasion of Pandemic Research — UT Austin](https://news.utexas.edu/2020/10/14/ut-students-rise-to-the-occasion-of-pandemic-research/) (2020-10-14).