Modeling epidemic recovery: An expert elicitation on issues and approaches

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Published online 2021 Nov 6. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114554

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Table 1

Characteristics of subject matter experts interviewed on the topic of post-epidemic recovery (Nov 2019 to Feb 2020).

#	Discipline/Issue Expertise	Professional Arena(s)			Geographic Scope		Operational Epidemic Experience
#	Discipline/Issue Expertise	Research	Practice	Policy	US	Global	Yes	No
1	Public Health – community resilience, national security	X			X	X		X
2	Public Health – emergency management, infectious diseases, ethics		X			X	X
3	Public Health – risk management, measurement/modeling, community resilience	X			X		X
4	Public Health – emergency management, infectious diseases	X	X		X	X	X
5	Public Health – emergency management, disaster recovery		X		X		X
6	Medicine – microbiology, infectious diseases		X			X	X
7	Medicine – infectious diseases	X	X		X		X
8	Medicine – infectious diseases, tropical diseases	X		X	X	X	X
9	Veterinary Medicine – one health	X				X		X
10	Nursing – public health, emergency management		X			X	X
11	Geography – disaster recovery, measurement/modeling	X			X			X
12	Sociology – infectious diseases, one health, economics	X				X		X
13	Psychology – disaster recovery, community resilience	X			X			X
14	Economics – disaster recovery, public health emergency management			X	X		X
Portion of Interviewees Demonstrating Characteristic		9 (.64)	6 (.43)	2 (.14)	9 (.64)	8 (.57)	9 (.64)	5 (.38)