Post by Georgetown University

In the afternoon on Friday, March 27, Georgetown University’s Medical and Dental Building turned into a site of organized chaos, also known as Operation Outbreak, a simulation of a measles-like virus, spearheaded by M.S. in Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases (Biohaz, BHTA) student Curtis Hoffmann. Operation Outbreak participants use a mobile app that spreads a Bluetooth-borne virtual pathogen based on proximity. Participants from across the university were assigned roles ranging from general population to health professionals, media and governmental agencies. In addition to the outbreak simulation, the full day of activities at Georgetown included distinguished speakers in biosecurity, disaster management, medical humanities, and defense, who brought to life the multidisciplinary nature of outbreak science, as well as student speakers presenting their research in the morning. https://bit.ly/4v9ONzj