Description of Collaborative Activity: |
IMAG is comprised of program directors from over 10 government agencies including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Veterans Administration (VA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). The purpose of IMAG is to bring together program staff who have a shared interest in supporting modeling and analysis methods in biomedical, biological, and behavioral systems. IMAG has promoted and supported a wide variety of modeling, notably multi-scale modeling (MSM) through agency-specific funding opportunity announcements. IMAG also holds consortium meetings annually, however in 2021 a consortium meeting was not held, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Instead, IMAG and the MSM remained active through individual working group and special interest group activities. A new Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics working group was created, hosting over 30 subgroups, promoting weekly webinars throughout the year that involved participants from several IMAG agencies, including NIH, CDC, FDA, NSF and DOD and the associated extramural communities. Additionally, a new collaboration was formed between NIH, CDC, DARPA, NASA with the MSM Committee on Credible Practice of Modeling ; Simulation in Healthcare (CPMS, which includes NIH and FDA) to evaluate the credibility of the processes used for developing the COVID-19 pandemic models. The credible practices were evaluated in relation to this article, which was published after eight years of work between the CPMS and the IMAG and the MSM Consortium, https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/resources/publications/credible-practice-modeling-and-simulation-healthcare-ten-rules. |
NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
CSR, NCCIH, NCI, NEI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIBIB, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIGMS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINDS, NLM, OD/DPCPSI, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR |
