# epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics **Entity class:** Federally funded research center The **epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics** is a [[wiki/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]]-funded center led by [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] since 2023. It develops national outbreak-forecasting and analytics capacity by joining models, data, public-health practice, and decision support. epiENGAGE is part of the institutional continuation of the [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]] program after the acute COVID-19 emergency: the same core grammar—early detection, state estimation, forecasting, uncertainty, intervention, and operational communication—is generalized into durable national outbreak infrastructure. ## Relationships - **directed by:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]]. - **research base:** [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]] at [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]]. - **program lineage:** [[wiki/UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium|UT COVID-19 Modeling Consortium]] and [[wiki/Center for Pandemic Decision Science|Center for Pandemic Decision Science]]. - **mission connection:** [[wiki/Biosurveillance|Biosurveillance]], [[wiki/Public Health Modeling|Public Health Modeling]], and [[wiki/Network Epidemiology|Network Epidemiology]]. - **federal sponsor:** [[wiki/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Lauren Ancel Meyers — Integrative Biology](https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-ancel-meyers) (current profile accessed 2026-09-23). - [CDC Taps UT for National Disease Outbreak Response Network — College of Natural Sciences](https://cns.utexas.edu/news/announcements/cdc-taps-ut-national-disease-outbreak-response-network) (2023).