EMOD HIV is a stochastic, agent-based, spatial model designed to inform policy decisions as well as investigate new interventions strategies. The within-host and transmission models allow the user to see how different interventions impact transmission. As a spatial model, EMOD HIV allows the definition of demographics, relationship dynamics, and intervention distributions in different regions as well as the migration of people between these regions. EMOD HIV is used by researchers around the world and available as open-source software.
Features
Features of EMOD HIV include:
- Stochastic, agent-based, spatial model: EMOD HIV uses a stochastic and agent-based approach to model spatial interactions, making it useful for understanding complex dynamics in HIV transmission.
- Within-host and transmission models: These models enable the user to simulate how different interventions affect HIV transmission at both individual (within-host) and population (transmission) levels.
- Flexible spatial configurations: The model allows users to define demographics, relationship dynamics, and intervention strategies across different geographic regions. It also accounts for migration patterns between these regions.
- Install and use: It is now easier to install and use with emodpy, idmtools, and Vis-Tools.
- Open-source software: EMOD HIV is available as open-source software, making it accessible to researchers worldwide for modification and use in various settings.
Our approach
Our approach is to actively collaborate with EMOD HIV users to help build and support a community that shares knowledge, contributes to EMOD HIV, and helps one another.
The following tools help with the workflow for EMOD HIV:
- idmtools: idmtools is a collection of Python scripts and utilities created to streamline user interactions with disease models, from the creation of input files (if required), to commissioning and running simulations, through the analysis of results.
- emod-api: emod-api is the interface for Epidemiological MODeling software (EMOD) that users of idmtools interact with to create and modify EMOD simulations.
- emodpy: emodpy is a collection of Python scripts and utilities created to streamline user interactions with EMOD and idmtools.
- emodpy-hiv: emodpy-hiv is a Python library with scripts and tooling to streamline user interactions with idmtools and the EMOD-Generic model.
- Vis-Tools: Vis-Tools is a collection of software tools that aids in the visualization of geospatial simulation data from EMOD.
