Data to drive decisions: How can research inform philanthropic giving?
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Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 02:00pm - LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
TAGS:Webinar Philanthropy funding NGOs Grantees Emergency Funding Disaster funding
Interactive Map: Population Density Changes Map Analyses of Countries Bordering Western Ukraine
March 17, 2022
Our research team created an interactive map showing changes in population densities along the Ukraine-Poland border. This map provides important insights on population movement patterns amid the Ukrainian War.
TAGS:Mobility Data Data Resources Visualizations Ukraine Ukraine War Ukraine Refugees Ukraine Conflict Data Analysis Data Map Interactive Map
How Can Human Mobility Data Reshape Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Management?
March 4, 2022
Human mobility data, which shows an individual’s movement as measured by their activity on smartphones and social media platforms, has reshaped emergency management and response. In the seventh DMDN meeting, this topic is discussed in detail with key collaborators from FEMA, CalOES, The City of New Orleans, and NetHope.
TAGS:Disasters Wildfires Mobility Data Hurricanes Data Readiness Data News DMDN translational readiness Human Mobility Data Emergency Response Crisis Mangement Situation Reports Natural Disasters Disaster Mobility Data Network
Understanding global disasters and displacement through human mobility data
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Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 09:00am — 10:00am
TAGS:Disasters Mobility Data Webinar displacement disasters DMDN Events Human Mobility Data
Disaster Mobility Data Network: Mobility Data & Disasters: A Roundtable Discussion (Meeting 7)
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Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm - LOCATION:
Zoom
Low parasite connectivity among three malaria hotspots in Thailand
Published in Nature Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23348
December 2, 2021 by Hsiao-Han Chang, Meng-Chun Chang, Mathew Kiang, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Nattwut Ekapirat, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Prayuth Sudathip, Caroline O. Buckee, Richard J. Maude
TAGS:Mobility Data Data Epidemiology Spotlight Journal Article mobility data Thailand disease-transmission Regional Mobility Malaria translational readiness
Disaster Mobility Data Network: Data Ethics & Privacy (Meeting 6)
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Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 09:00am — 10:00am
6th Meeting of the Disaster Mobility Data Network
TAGS:Mobility Data DMDN Webinar mobility data DMDN GFDRR mobilkit event recording
Evaluating the reliability of mobility metrics from aggregated mobile phone data as proxies for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA
Published in The Lancet Digital Health
November 9, 2021 by Nishant Kishore, Aimee R Taylor, Pierre E Jacob, Navin Vembar, Ted Cohen, Prof Caroline O Buckee, Nicolas A Menzies
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Data Resources Epidemiology Spotlight mobility data covid
Characterizing human mobility patterns in rural settings of sub-Saharan Africa
September 17, 2021 by Hannah R Meredith, John R Giles, Javier Perez-Saez, Théophile Mande, Andrea Rinaldo, Simon Mutembo, Elliot N Kabalo, Kabondo Makungo, Caroline O Buckee, Andrew J Tatem, C Jessica E Metcalf, Amy Wesolowski
Disaster Mobility Data Network: The Use of Human Mobility Data in Public Health Emergencies Radcliffe Seminar Deliberations (Meeting 3)
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Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 09:00am — 10:00am
We are delighted to invite you to our third meeting of the Disaster Mobility Data Network. This session will present summary deliberations from the Harvard Radcliffe Seminar Series held in March and April 2021, in consulation with nearly 40 technologists, scientists, lawyers and humanitarian responders from around the world.
Situation Reports
The page contains situational awareness PDF reports and hosted layers generated for multiple disasters in the year 2021
TAGS:Disasters Mobility Data Data Resources Visualizations mobility data hurricane wildfire earthquake network coverage population density changes
Data in Crisis — Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in the United States
Published in New England Journal of Medicine, Medicine and Society (2021)
September 1, 2021 by Satchit Balsari, M.D., M.P.H., Mathew V. Kiang, Sc.D., and Caroline O. Buckee, D.Phil.
TAGS:Disasters Data Policy Mobility Data Data Readiness Spotlight mobility data mapping vulnerabilities
Disaster Mobility Data Network: Epidemics and Post-Disaster Displacement (Meeting 2)
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Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 09:00am — 10:00am
Thinking clearly about social aspects of infectious disease transmission
Published in Nature, Volume 595, Pages 205–213 (2021)
July 15, 2021 by Caroline O. Buckee, Abdisalan Noor, Lisa Sattenspiel
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Epidemiology Spotlight Journal Article epidemiology Social Relationships Regional Mobility
Network Outages and Changes in Population Density After Tropical Storm Claudette in Louisiana and Alabama
June 24, 2021 by Akash Yadav (CrisisReady)
TAGS:Disasters Hurricanes News Spotlight Louisiana Claudette population network Alabama
CrisisReady Researchers Probe Health Risks from California Wildfire Season
June 24, 2021 by Direct Relief
TAGS:Disasters Wildfires Data Readiness Resources News Spotlight HealthMapping California Google
Leveraging Facebook mobility data for COVID19 policy development in Wales
June 22, 2021 by CrisisReady
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Data Readiness News Spotlight Facebook pandemic
Disaster Mobility Data Network Launch Meeting
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Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 09:00am — 10:00am
Changes in mobile phone technology, notably the near-ubiquity in many places of GPS-enabled smartphones, have altered the ways that response agencies and researchers understand and respond to crises. As this data becomes mainstream in emergency management, key issues of data capacity and data literacy - as well as ethics, privacy, and data protection - become increasingly pressing.
TAGS:Mobility Data DMDN Event Recording mobility data DMDN GFDRR World Bank
TheVerge.com: The Pandemic Showed that Big Tech Isn’t a Public Health Savior
June 9, 2021
CrisisReady co-founder Andrew Schroeder was interviewed for an article which appeared on June 3, 2021 in The Verge on the role that big technology firms played during the Covid-19 pandemic.
TAGS:News
The impact of mobility network properties on predicted epidemic dynamics in Dhaka and Bangkok
Published in Epidemics, Volume 35, 2021, 100441, ISSN 1755-4365
June 1, 2021 by Tyler S. Brown, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Mathew V. Kiang, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Richard J. Maude, Caroline O. Buckee
TAGS:Mobility Data Epidemiology Spotlight Journal Article Dhaka Bangkok
Socioeconomic Status Determines COVID-19 Incidence and Related Mortality in Santiago, Chile
Published in Science 372, no. 6545: eabg5298
May 28, 2021 by Mena, Gonzalo E., Pamela P. Martinez, Ayesha S. Mahmud, Pablo A. Marquet, Caroline O. Buckee, and Mauricio Santillana
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Grants Epidemiology Case Studies Journal Article data science Chile
Displacement and Gender on St Vincent Following the La Soufriere Volcanic Eruption
by Akash Yadav (CrisisReady)
The La Soufriere volcano on the island of St Vincent began erupting on the 27th of December at the end of 2020. On April 13th, 2021 an enormous plume of ash and smoke spewed from the crater.
TAGS:Disasters Mobility Data DMDN News Case Studies Spotlight Facebook