A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance

Authors

  • Alina Deshpande Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Mac Brown Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Lauren Castro Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • William B. Daniel Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Eric N. Generous Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Andrea Hengartner Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Kristen Margevicius Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
  • Kirsten Taylor-McCabe Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4402

Abstract

Living in a closely connected and highly mobile world presents many new mechanisms for rapid disease spread and in recent years, global disease surveillance has become a high priority. In addition, much like the contribution of non-traditional medicine to curing diseases, non-traditional data streams are being considered of value in disease surveillance. Los Alamos National Laboratory is determining the relevance of various data streams through the use of defined metrics and methodologies. An overview of this project will be presented, together with results of data stream evaluation.

Author Biography

Alina Deshpande, Defense Systems Analysis Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Alina Deshpande, Ph.D. is a scientist in the Defense Systems Analysis Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Alina received a B.S in Microbiology from the University of Pune, India and an M.S and Ph.D in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico-School of Medicine. She is the Principal Investigator for the data stream evaluation project. Alina is a reviewer for the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Plos One, and the Journal of Medical Microbiology.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Deshpande, A., Brown, M., Castro, L., Daniel, W. B., Generous, E. N., Hengartner, A., … Taylor-McCabe, K. (2013). A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4402

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Oral Presentations: Border Health/ Multi-jurisdictional Health

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