How Data Can Reshape Hurricane Response
November 1, 2022 by Joe Nallen
TAGS:Mobility Data Hurricanes Data Readiness News Data Preparedness Data in Crises Hurricanes Caribbean Hurricane Response mobility data
Preventing the next pandemic: New tools for global surveillance
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Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 12:00pm — 01:00pm
TAGS:Data Readiness Epidemiology Spotlight pandemic surveillance Events COVID-19 Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Data Preparedness for Disasters in Mexico: Regional Hub Workshop Review
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Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm - LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
TAGS:Mobility Data Data Readiness DMDN Disasters Event Recording Data in Crises Webinar Spotlight DMDN Data Preparedness Mexico Regional Hub Workshop Disaster Response
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 Crisis Mangement Situation Reports Natural Disasters Disaster Mobility Data Network DMDN translational readiness Human Mobility Data Emergency Response
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
CrisisReady Researchers Probe Health Risks from California Wildfire Season
June 24, 2021 by Direct Relief
TAGS:Data Readiness Resources Disasters Wildfires Spotlight News Google HealthMapping California
Leveraging Facebook mobility data for COVID19 policy development in Wales
June 22, 2021 by CrisisReady
TAGS:Mobility Data Data Readiness COVID-19 Spotlight News Facebook pandemic
As Disaster Response Changes, Data Leads the Way
by Amarica Rafanelli
The environments in which disasters occur are changing. Populations are denser. Climates are more extreme. And technology is burgeoning into new realms. These changes have ushered in a new era of disaster response.
TAGS:Disasters Wildfires Data Readiness News California CalOES CDPH
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:Mobility Data Data Readiness Epidemiology COVID-19 Case Studies Journal Article pandemic Taiwan health
OpenDP: open-source software tools for privacy-protective statistical analysis of sensitive personal data.
by Abhishek Bhatia
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of developing analytical pipelines that leverage data streams generated by individuals and communities to drive data-driven responses to crises. As these data increasingly exchange hands within agencies and are shared publicly for broader research, Salil Vadhan from Harvard SEAS and Navin Vembar from Camber Systems discuss the inadequacy of traditional methods for the protection of sensitive personal data.
TAGS:OpenDP Data Policy Mobility Data Data Readiness News privacy IQSS SEAS
Identifying Locations with Possible Undetected Imported Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Cases by Using Importation Predictions
Published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26(7), 1465–1469
July 1, 2020 by De Salazar, P. M., Niehus, R., Taylor, A., Buckee, C. O., & Lipsitch, M.
TAGS:Data Readiness Epidemiology News Journal Article health data science
Challenges to Transforming Unconventional Social Media Data into Actionable Knowledge for Public Health Systems during Disasters
Published in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 14(3), 352–359
June 1, 2020 by Chan, J. L., & Purohit, H.
TAGS:Mobility Data Data Readiness Disasters News Journal Article Facebook health
Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19
Published in Science (New York, N.Y.), 368(6487), 145–146
April 10, 2020 by Buckee, C. O., Balsari, S., Chan, J., Crosas, M., Dominici, F., Gasser, U., Grad, Y. H., Grenfell, B., Halloran, M. E., Kraemer, M. U. G., Lipsitch, M., Metcalf, C. J. E., Meyers, L. A., Perkins, T. A., Santillana, M., Scarpino, S. V., Viboud, C., Wesolowski, A., & Schroeder, A.
TAGS:Data Readiness COVID-19 Mobility Data News Journal Article pandemic mobility health
Improving epidemic surveillance and response: Big data is dead, long live big data
Published in The Lancet Digital Health, 2(5), e218–e220
March 17, 2020 by Buckee, C.
TAGS:COVID-19 Mobility Data Data Readiness Epidemiology News Journal Article mobility health surveillance
Using predicted imports of 2019-nCoV cases to determine locations that may not be identifying all imported cases
February 11, 2020 by Martinez de Salazar Munoz, P., Niehus, R., Taylor, A., Buckee, C., & Lipsitch, M.
TAGS:COVID-19 Data Readiness Epidemiology News Journal Article mobility health pandemic modeling