On September 30, 2025, as the The Roux Institute at Northeastern University reflected on its past and future alongside community partners during The Future of Maine Starts Here event in Portland-ME, NetSI & Roux Institute faculty members Guillaume St-Onge and Matteo Chinazzi presented ongoing work from EPISTORM, a national initiative enhancing epidemic preparedness through real-time data integration, advanced modeling, and forecasting to support public-health decision making.The Network Science Institute in Portland, plays a central role in this effort by developing advanced approaches to epidemiological modeling and supporting public-health research in Maine and beyond. We’re proud to be part of this forward-looking and collaborative community shaping the future of health, science, and innovation!

The EPISTORM project was made possible by cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-FT-23-0069 from the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.