Today we’ll discuss a new research data resource --  the Pandemic Vulnerability Index -- built by researchers at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina State University and Texas A&M University. 
Alison Motsinger-Reif  is Chief of and a principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch at the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Her research focuses on the development and application of modern statistical approaches for understanding the etiology of common, complex diseases. 

David Reif is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, where his research focuses on complex interactions between human health and the environment using bioinformatics and statistical methods, visual analytics, experimental design, and software for the integrated analysis of high-dimensional, multi-scale data from diverse sources. .