The Decision-Maker Microbe Public Decision-Maker What should the decision-maker do? What do they tend to do? What are the common pitfalls? Why?

What do the models need? Issues to add More accurate person-person interactions Motivations and resultant behaviors Economics Social Stigmata Loss of Freedoms Mental Health Important to distinguish Input/Output

Example Sensor placement Positive reading - now what??? How will the decision-maker respond? How will public respond to false positive? How bad will a missed/delayed reading be?

How can we be more effective? Better communication Multi-discipline Post-docs Sabbatical/Mid-career retraining Modular design of models Multiple labs

There is an important distinction between social scientists helping modelers improve their models and modelers helping social scientists test their predictions.

Future Meetings Precise definitions & measurement of social-scientific concepts Panic Peer Pressure Motivation Behavioral Responses Economics Stigmatization