Updated Insights: Tracking Dispersal of Refugees Fleeing Ukraine
May 18, 2022
An updated map using mobility data from Meta provides insights on the evolving movement patterns of Ukrainian refugees displaced by the Russia-Ukraine War.
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Using Novel Technologies to Forecast the Needs of Medically-Vulnerable Populations During Wildfires
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Thu, May 26, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm - LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
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Disaster Mobility Data Network: Mobility Data, Displacement, and the War in Ukraine (Meeting 9)
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Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:00am — 12:00pm - LOCATION:
Online via Zoom
Join us in conversation with representatives of UN OCHA, UNICEF, and the Jackson School of International Affairs at Yale, about data responsibility, displacement analysis, and the limits of mobility data during the war in Ukraine.
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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.
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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.
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Disaster Mobility Data Network: Understanding global disasters and displacement through human mobility data (Meeting 8)
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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
Low parasite connectivity among three malaria hotspots in Thailand
Published in 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
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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
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Situation Reports
The page contains situational awareness PDF reports and hosted layers generated for multiple disasters in the year 2021
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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
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
Leveraging Facebook mobility data for COVID19 policy development in Wales
June 22, 2021 by CrisisReady
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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.
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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.
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COVID-19 Mobility Data Network
A network of infectious disease epidemiologists at universities around the world working with technology companies to use aggregated mobility data to support the COVID-19 response.
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:COVID-19 Mobility Data Data Readiness Epidemiology Case Studies Journal Article health pandemic Taiwan
Incorporating human mobility data improves forecasts of Dengue fever in Thailand
Published in Scientific Reports, 11(1), 923
January 13, 2021 by Kiang, M. V., Santillana, M., Chen, J. T., Onnela, J.-P., Krieger, N., Engø-Monsen, K., Ekapirat, N., Areechokchai, D., Prempree, P., Maude, R. J., & Buckee, C. O.
TAGS:Mobility Data Epidemiology News Case Studies Journal Article health dengue Thailand
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:COVID-19 Disasters Mobility Data Hurricanes News Case Studies Journal Article displacement