How UNC Charlotte is helping the world prepare for the next pandemic

How UNC Charlotte is helping the world prepare for the next pandemic

UNC Charlotte's Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER)

Since 2020, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) has played a significant role in Mecklenburg County’s COVID-19 response — from wastewater testing to identifying new SARS-CoV-2 variants and analyzing their characteristics via artificial intelligence (AI).

Now, AI has become the main focus of a $10 million expansion that brings together biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and public health experts under the Center for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER).

Click here to read Professor Daniel A. Janies’ interview with Joe Fisher (WRAL reporter) and learn more about how CIPHER will focus on empirical and computation research to fight against current and emerging infectious diseases.

How UNC Charlotte is helping the world prepare for the next pandemic