Improving the health of a population requires deep understanding of who is healthy and who is not, the causes of poor health, how illness can be prevented, and optimal times for prevention and treatment activities.
MITRE’s epidemiologists understand that improving the health of the nation requires focus on the who, what, why, when, and how of disease and health-related factors. They apply their epidemiologic expertise in the fields of infectious and chronic diseases, behavioral and environmental health, public health policy and informatics, and emergency preparedness and response to solve the most complex population and public health problems.
The special relationship MITRE has with our federal partners—in which the MITRE team sits on the government side of the table while maintaining objectivity—allows our epidemiologists to inform and advise the development of long-term strategies to improve surveillance and public and population health. Because MITRE epidemiologists have no commercial conflicts of interest; they can conduct population health analyses that account for explicit budgetary constraints and use other sensitive data that might not be accessible by non-profit contractors.