CIDID current and former members Alex Vespignani, Betz Halloran, Ira Longini, Ana Pastore y Piontti, and Dennis Chao are part of an Italian/US team that won the inaugural Aspen Institute Italia Award for scientific research and collaboration between Italy and the United States. The team was awarded for their research study entitled: "Spatiotemporal spread of the 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions: a computational modelling analysis". The award ceremony took place in Rome on October 26, 2016.
