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Informatics & Disease Surveillance - Predicting Epidemics in The Future

About This Webinar

No one could have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic would turn 2020 upside down and the effects it would have on the tourism industry...or could they? Epidemiologist Dr. John Brownstein, Ph.D has spent nearly two decades predicting disease events. He is leading the development of several novel disease surveillance systems, including HealthMap.org, an internet-based global infectious disease intelligence system which provided one of the earliest indications of the novel H1N1 virus in 2009. In this talk, he will explain how data from scientific and citizen sources help scientists predict pandemics and epidemics, what the data says about COVID-19 moving forward, and how we can use bioinformatics tools to be better equipped if and when a future health crisis arises.

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Webinar Price: Free
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John Brownstein was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University, where he received his PhD. Dr. Brownstein’s research interests are in the development of methods and data sources in public health informatics which focuses on two major areas: (1) the design, evaluation and implementation of public health surveillance systems and (2) statistical modeling of public health surveillance data to improve prevention and control activities. This research has focused on a variety of infectious disease systems including malaria, HIV, dengue, West Nile virus, Lyme disease, RSV, salmonella, listeria and influenza. Dr. Brownstein has advised the World Health Organization, Institute of Medicine, the US Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, and the White House on real-time public health surveillance data.
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