FRED (A Framework for Reconstructing Epidemiological Dynamics) is a freely availabe open-source agent-based modeling system for exploring the spatial and temporal patterns of epidemics. FRED uses open-source census-based synthetic populations that capture the demographic and geographic distributions of the population,including realistic household, school, and workplace social networks.

FRED epidemic models are currently available for every state and county in the United States, and for selected international locations.

You can use this app to see results that are already available or run new simulations with different epidemic and controlparameters.

FRED was developed by the University of Pittsburgh Public Health Dynamics Laboratory in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Funding

This work supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences under MIDAS grant U54GM088491 and by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the software.