https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/disease-modeling/ Recent content in Disease-Modeling on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-10-self-hosted-epidemiological-modeling-epimodel-epinow2-outbreaker2-guide/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-10-self-hosted-epidemiological-modeling-epimodel-epinow2-outbreaker2-guide/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Epidemiological modeling became front-page news during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has been a cornerstone of public health for decades. From predicting influenza season severity to reconstructing outbreak transmission chains, these mathematical models inform vaccination strategies, hospital capacity planning, and containment policies. While government agencies often rely on proprietary platforms, the open-source R ecosystem provides production-grade epidemiological modeling tools that can be self-hosted for complete data sovereignty.</p>