CDC Contract Tracing
Student Team
Jason Bermudez, Kev Desprez, Alexander Kenres, Chungjae Lee, Leah Patterson, Suphaphat Petlerkwong, and Yuntong Zhu
Faculty Advisor
Pinar Keskinocak
The project focuses on the effective design and use of contact tracing protocols to decrease the risk of infectious disease transmission during air travel. The team developed a novel decision-support tool for contact tracing investigations, estimating the infection risk for the passengers considering pathogen and flight parameters. The tool’s versatility enables comprehensive scenario analysis, and its back-end allows for continuous refinement of input parameters. The use of the tool results in expected savings of up to $300,000 per flight.
Spring 2017