COMoMat-PandCovid19

CINTESIS participates in the project COMoMat-PandCovid19: Optimal Control and Mathematical Modeling of Pandemia Covid-19, which obtained funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), under the RESEARCH4COVID19 initiative.

One of the main objectives is “to prevent and estimate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to develop strategies to control and eradicate Covid-19”. Another objective is to “forecast the necessary resources (for example, from ICU) in the short and mid-term”. The project also aims to “prepare infected people for recovery at home and identify mental health problems”, as well as “to optimize the impact of prevention/treatment measures in reducing COVID-19 mortality”.

The project is led by Cristiana João Soares da Silva, from the Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) of the Mathematics Department of the University of Aveiro. Other participants are researchers from CINTESIS, the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP), the IPP of Leiria, a Group of Health Centers (ACES), and two Spanish Universities (Vigo and Santiago de Compostela).

The need to act immediately requires the use of mathematical models, taking into account the regional and national reality. The theory of optimal control allows the definition of strategies that alter the behavior of these models, with a view to the rapid and effective mobilization and articulation of resources in health care, promotion of literacy on infection, and consistent action in terms of adjustment to disease and protection of mental health.

FCT

7,981.28 €

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Wilson Abreu

University Hospital Center of São João, EPE (UHCSJ), project’s leader, in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP).