What Goes Into a PIPP Center?
Each PIPP Phase II Center is envisioned as a catalytic force that:
- Builds a deeper understanding of critical foundational research issues that are critical in predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention.
- Innovates in a multitude of science and engineering fields within each theme, including, but not limited to: environmental, biological, social, behavioral, economic, mathematical, computer and information science and engineering science.
- Provides use-inspired insights to critical problems relating to predictive intelligence for pandemic prevention that accelerate translation of research results to practice with societal impact.
Motivating Research Questions Successful Centers are motivated by clear and compelling foundational and interdisciplinary research questions and pursue activities that are focused in one of themes above. While each theme has a clear focus in some disciplines, research and development activities must draw together data, theory, tools, infrastructure and ideas that cross all relevant disciplinary boundaries (e.g., environmental, biological, chemical, physical, materials, social, behavioral, economic, mathematical, computer and information science and/or engineering science) and reflect this in balanced expertise on the team of collaborators and participants.
Broader Impacts Each successful Center will have interacting initial components that reach beyond the foundational research questions. Chiefly, Centers should accelerate the transition of innovations into relevant economic and/or policy sectors, and nurture and grow the next generation of talent necessary to respond to future pandemic challenges. Hence, center activities must include workforce development at all participant levels, a culture of diversity and inclusion where all participants gain mutual benefit.
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