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:Epidemiology COVID-19 Mobility Data Data Resources Spotlight covid mobility data
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:Epidemiology COVID-19 Mobility Data Spotlight Journal Article epidemiology Social Relationships Regional Mobility
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
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:Grants Epidemiology COVID-19 Mobility Data Case Studies Journal Article Chile data science
Facebook Mobility Map
The data contained in this map displays county level changes in the rates of mobility and staying put, which can allow people to understand the degree to which their communities may be adopting physical distancing efforts.
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CMDN User Feedback Briefs
May 5, 2021 by Jennifer Chan, Lauren Bateman, (Abhishek Bhatia, Kate Bruni)
TAGS:COVID-19 Report cmdn-userfeedback mobility data translationalreadiness
CMDN User Feedback Case Studies
May 5, 2021 by Jennifer Chan, Lauren Bateman, (Abhishek Bhatia, Kate Bruni)
TAGS:COVID-19 Case Studies Report translationalreadiness cmdn-userfeedback mobility data
Ground Truth Matters: Travel Surveys, Covid-19, and the Limits of Human Mobility Data
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Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:00am — 11:00am
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic digital data on human mobility has played crucial roles in response efforts ranging from monitoring non-pharmaceutical interventions like physical distancing, evaluating different types of testing and seroprevalence strategies, and assisting with targeted re-opening efforts to maximize health and reduce economic harm.
Translational Readiness, Data Collaboratives and Capacity Building- Lessons from COVID-19
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Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 11:00am — 12:00pm
This Panel examined the practices of recent mobility data collaboratives in order to engage a conversation about the future of global capacity building for translational readiness and crisis response.
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Launch of CrisisReady
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Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:00am — 12:30pm
CrisisReady is organized around the principles of Data Readiness, Methods Readiness, and Translational Readiness, and seeks to advance data-driven decision-making during public health emergencies. CrisisReady evolved from the Covid-19 Mobility Data Network, a research network of 100+ scientists from around the world who volunteered their time to serve as trusted intermediaries between technology companies and city and state governments around the world, in 2020.
Variation in human mobility and its impact on the risk of future COVID-19 outbreaks in Taiwan
Published in BMC Public Health, 2021 Jan 27; 21(1):226.
January 27, 2021 by Chang, M.-C., Kahn, R., Li, Y.-A., Lee, C.-S., Buckee, C. O., & Chang, H.-H.
TAGS:Data Readiness Epidemiology COVID-19 Mobility Data Case Studies Journal Article pandemic Taiwan health
Did Data Make a Difference? Reviewing the COVID-19 Crises with Facebook Data for Good
January 26, 2021 by Andrew Schroeder
Nowcasting for Real-Time COVID-19 Tracking in New York City: An Evaluation Using Reportable Disease Data From Early in the Pandemic
Published in JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 7(1), e25538
January 15, 2021 by Greene, S. K., McGough, S. F., Culp, G. M., Graf, L. E., Lipsitch, M., Menzies, N. A., & Kahn, R.
TAGS:COVID-19 Data Epidemiology Case Studies Journal Article New York surveillance health pandemic
Vaccine Distribution, Deserts, and Data Analytics
by Camber Systems
Last week, President Joe Biden announced his goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in his first 100 days in office. Equitably distributing a vaccine to that many Americans now stands as the country’s final and most daunting task to defeat the pandemic.
TAGS:COVID-19 OpenDP Data Policy News data protection vaccines
Estimating internationally imported cases during the early COVID-19 pandemic
Published in Nature Communications, 12(1), 311
January 12, 2021 by Menkir, T. F., Chin, T., Hay, J. A., Surface, E. D., De Salazar, P. M., Buckee, C. O., Watts, A., Khan, K., Sherbo, R., Yan, A. W. C., Mina, M. J., Lipsitch, M., & Niehus, R.
TAGS:COVID-19 Data Epidemiology News Journal Article health pandemic
Did data make a difference? Lessons from Facebook Data for Good in 2020
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Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:00am — 01:00pm
The role of Facebook Data for Good tools for COVID-19 response, routine immunizations, and development programs and what this means for …
TAGS:COVID-19 Event Recording mobility Facebook data science
Quantifying the dynamics of migration after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2020, 117 (51) 32772-32778
December 22, 2020 by Rolando J. Acosta, Nishant Kishore, Rafael A. Irazarry, Caroline Buckee
TAGS:Hurricanes COVID-19 Disasters Mobility Data News Case Studies Journal Article displacement
Using Human Mobility Data to Inform Pandemic Response Theory and Practice
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Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 10:00am — 11:30am
This 90-minute panel will examine the application of mobility data in monitoring the spread of the pandemic and informing containment policy, with a particular focus on privacy-preserving safeguards, methodological challenges, and translational barriers.
Measuring mobility to monitor travel and physical distancing interventions: a common framework for mobile phone data analysis
Published in The Lancet Digital Health
November 1, 2020 by Kishore, N., Kiang, M. V., Engø-Monsen, K., Vembar, N., Schroeder, A., Balsari, S., & Buckee, C. O.
TAGS:Mobility Data Data COVID-19 News Journal Article pandemic surveillance
Lockdown related travel behavior undermines the containment of SARS-CoV-2
Published in MedRxiv, 2020.10.22.20217752
October 26, 2020 by Kishore, N., Kahn, R., Martinez, P. P., Salazar, P. M. D., Mahmud, A. S., & Buckee, C. O.
TAGS:COVID-19 Epidemiology News Journal Article mobility health pandemic
Mobility Data and the Limits of Data Protection Frameworks
October 7, 2020 by Abhishek Bhatia
The near real-time information about human movement provided by aggregated population mobility data has tremendous potential to help refine interventions when appropriate legal, organizational, and computational safeguards are in place. As the private sector, policymakers, and academia work together to leverage novel sources of data to track the spread of the pandemic, Randall Harp, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Juniper Lovato from the University of Vermont argue that anonymization at the individual level is insufficient– the notion of privacy should extend to communities as well.
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The use of mobile phone data to inform analysis of COVID-19 pandemic epidemiology
Published in Nature Communications, 11(1), 4961
September 30, 2020 by Grantz, K. H., Meredith, H. R., Cummings, D. A. T., Metcalf, C. J. E., Grenfell, B. T., Giles, J. R., Mehta, S., Solomon, S., Labrique, A., Kishore, N., Buckee, C. O., & Wesolowski, A.
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Epidemiology News Journal Article pandemic