# Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences **Entity class:** Scientific journal **Abbreviation:** PNAS **Public account:** [@PNASNews](https://x.com/PNASNews) The **Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)** is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal published by the [[wiki/National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. PNAS is a recurrent publication venue for [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] and collaborators. Relevant work includes real-time COVID-19 surveillance using hospital admissions and mobility data, evaluation of COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, multimodel outbreak decision support, optimization of outbreak-forecast ensembles, and a 2025 study estimating that influenza vaccination averted 69,886 hospitalizations during the 2022–2023 U.S. season. That figure is a model-based counterfactual estimate with uncertainty. ## Relationships - **published by:** [[wiki/National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. - **research cluster:** [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]], [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]], [[wiki/Network Epidemiology|Network Epidemiology]], and [[wiki/Public Health Modeling|Public Health Modeling]]. - **alias:** [[wiki/PNAS|PNAS]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [About PNAS](https://www.pnas.org/about) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [Lauren Ancel Meyers — publications](https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-ancel-meyers) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [Estimated impact of 2022–2023 influenza vaccines on annual hospital burden in the United States](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12646225/) (PNAS, 2025).