Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC)

The Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC) is a partnership between the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Minnesota Electronic Health Records Consortium. MADMC is an integration center of Insight Net, the national network for disease outbreak modeling and analytics, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. The Insight Net network aims to build modeling and analytic capacity in health departments across the country to aid in anticipating infectious disease outbreaks and empowering public health leaders to make more informed decisions and take action to protect their communities during public health emergencies.

MADMC is developing and implementing tools to improve responses to emerging public health threats across the Midwest. The following tools are currently in development by MADMC: 

• Decision-analytic infectious diseases modeling platform
• Geospatial health service disparity identification tool
• Electronic health records (EHR)-based syndromic surveillance tool. 

Contact patterns from social contact surveys, lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and deidentified EHR data from the 11 largest health systems in Minnesota that collectively care for over 90% of Minnesotans are a few data sources that MADMC is using in novel ways to build these tools.

For more information about MADMC and Insight Net, please visit:

• UofM: Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC)
  University of Minnesota, School of Public Health
• CDC: Insight Net
  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Insight Net
  National Outbreak Analytics & Disease Modeling Network