FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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You may submit your internship application anytime through this google form. Our internship program accepts student interns all-year round, one batch at a time. Once you submit your application, our team will deliberate if your qualifications is fit to the center's requirements. Once accepted, you will receive an offer from our team indicating the timeline of your program. You may send confirm this or send us any concerns you have regarding the offer.

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The health care system in the Philippines needs persistent expansion in the use of information and communications technology and improved decision-making techniques. With the exigent efforts of the gathered experts in the fields using the Interdisciplinary Quantitative Approaches and Methodologies coupled with improved disease surveillance techniques, Disease Watch and Analytics dubbed as DiWA has been designed as a virtual planning tool and integrative platform for Decision Support System to aid policy-makers in creating guidelines for disease prevention and control in Mindanao in which COVID-19, Dengue, and Rabies as one of the commonly leading infectious diseases of concern will be the focus. The ongoing development and expansion primary features to implement the follwing:

• COVID-19 Dynamics Simulation

• Disease Trends

• Forecasts

• Genome-based Epidemiology

• Spatiotemporal Maps

• Vaccination Rollout System

• Triaging

• Water-based Epidemiology

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The center is the go-to center for computational needs of health offices and creation of innovative products such as modules or dashboards, surveillance or diagnostic kits, and many more that will be relevant in the public health decision-making processes in Mindanao region.