Pandemic Exercise Simulator
The Pandemic Exercise Simulator is a county-level outbreak simulation tool for planning exercises, intervention comparisons, and epidemiological methods development. It combines compartmental disease models, age-structured contact matrices, county mobility, vaccination stockpiles, antiviral stockpiles, and non-pharmaceutical interventions.
This documentation is written for two audiences:
Public health professionals who need to run scenarios, read inputs, and interpret outputs
Epidemiologist developers who need the model equations, stochastic assumptions, calibration details, and extension points
Public Health Walkthrough
- What This Simulator Does
- Quickstart
- Input Files
- Scenario Workflow
- 0. Create A Test Workspace
- 1. Choose A Geography
- 2. Choose A Disease Model
- 3. Set Disease Parameters
- 4. Choose Travel Assumptions
- 5. Add One Intervention
- Plan Runtime And Realizations
- 6. Run Baseline And Comparison Scenarios
- 7. Process And Review Outputs
- Recommended Scenario Comparisons
- Naming Outputs
- Interventions
- Outputs
PES Base-Code Modeling Reference
Model Input Derivations