About
The ability to rapidly recognize and respond to both global and local health threats remains a critical public health priority. The ever-growing digital world represents an unprecedented opportunity to harvest for new solutions and tools to face these emergencies. This digital means of disease detection has been made possible by the growing influence of Internet technology, which has significantly changed the landscape of public health surveillance and epidemic intelligence gathering.
Disease and outbreak data is now disseminated not only through formal online announcements by government agencies, but also through other informal digital channels such as social networking sites, blogs, chat rooms, Web searches, local news media, crowdsourcing platforms.
These informal data streams have been credited with decreasing the time between an outbreak and formal recognition of an outbreak, allowing for an expedited response to the public health threat.
The very recent addition of data from smart wearable body sensors for health self-assessment allows also to collect health-related data from the general public on a broader perspective not necessarily disease-related.
Collectively, these online sources create an image of global public health that is fundamentally different from the one produced by traditional public health surveillance infrastructure. As these sources become more widely used and relied upon, it is imperative that health professionals collaborate to demonstrate and improve the effectiveness of these sources. We must identify strengths and weaknesses that can be capitalized upon and remedied.
The intention of the Third International Digital Disease Detection Conference is to connect innovators in health and technology to 1) continue to define this emerging field; 2) explore novel data streams and new technologies; 3) host workshops to identify and discuss strengths and weaknesses in surveillance methods, and to promote critique and development of already existing surveillance and diagnostic tools.
The conference will be co-located with the World Wide Web (WWW) conference. The conference and workshops will be held on Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22 2015 at the Firenze Fiera Exhibition Center.
Organizing Committee
Organizers
John Brownstein
HealthMap - Boston Children’s Hospital
Ciro Cattuto
ISI Foundation
Jen Olsen
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Daniela Paolotti
ISI Foundation
Mark Smolinski
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Alessandro Vespignani
Northeastern University
Scientific Committee
David Buckeridge
McGill
Rumi Chunara
New York University
John Edmunds
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Deborah Estrin
Cornell Tech
Lyn Finelli
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
David Fisman
University of Toronto
David Gutelius
The Data Guild
Simon Hay
Oxford
Taha Kass Hout
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Damien Joly
Metabiota
Kamran Khan
University of Toronto
Larry Madoff
ProMED
Jas Mantero
MSF
Madhav Marathe
Virginia Tech
Sumiko Mekaru
HealthMap
Lauren Meyers
UT Austin
Elaine Nsoesie
HealthMap
Nuria Oliver
Telefonica Digital
Nicola Perra
Northeastern University
Philip Polgreen
University of Iowa
Naren Ramakrishnan
Virginia Tech
Marcel Salathé
Stanford University
Alessio Signorini
The Activity Exchange
Alberto Tozzi
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù
Effy Vayena
University of Zurich
Videos
Schedule
Thursday, May 21, 2015
| 9h - 9h45 | Welcoming Remarks and First Keynote | Peter Ohnemus, dacadoo |
| 9h45 - 10h45 | Panel: Wearables and DDD 45 minutes for talks followed by 15 minutes for questions |
KC Decker, Booz Allen Hamilton Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation Peter Ohnemus, decadoo Jared Hawkins, Harvard Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft |
| 10h45 - 11h15 | Break Coffee and snacks |
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| 11h15 - 12h30 | Rapid Fire Talks | |
| 12h30 - 13h30 | Lunch | |
| 13h30 - 14h15 | Second Keynote | Jay Bhatt, Chicago Department of Public Health |
| 14h15 - 15h15 | Panel: Ethics of DDD 45 minutes for talks followed by 15 minutes for questions |
Effy Vayena, University of Zurich Alessandro Spina, European Medicines Agency Aleksandar Matic, Telefonica Digital Ann Waldo, Waldo Law Offices |
| 15h15 - 15h45 | Break Coffee and snacks |
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| 15h45 - 17h | Rapid Fire Talks | |
| 17h - 18h | Panel: Ebola Experience with DDD 45 minutes for talks followed by 15 minutes for questions |
David Fisman, MD, University of Toronto Maia Majumder, MIT, Boston Children's Hospital Madhav Marathe, Virgina Tech Nathan Wolfe, Metabiota |
| 18h - 19h30 | Social Dinner |
Friday, May 22, 2015
| 9h30 - 10h30 | Panel: Modeling/Forecasting of DDD 45 minutes for talks followed by 15 minutes for questions |
Alex Vespignani, Northeastern University Matthew Biggerstaff, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Michael Johansson, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Jean Paul Chretien, Division of Integrated Biosurveillance - US Navy |
| 10h30 - 11h | Break Coffee and snacks |
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| 11h - 12h15 | Rapid Fire Talks | |
| 12h15 - 13h | Closing Keynote | Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech |
| 13h-14h | Lunch and Closing Remarks |
Rapid Fire Talks
Measurement and Evaluation of Data
Carrie Reed
If You've Seen One Flu Season...: Opportunities and Challenges for Digital Disease Detection
Riccardo Scalco
Evaluate Data Streams by Means of Markov Chains Models, a Computational Approach
Catherine Ordun
Surveillance of Surveillance: Inventorying Gaps and Commonalities Across the Universe of Surveillance Systems
Aaron KitePowell
Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool
Michael Paul
Tracking Public Awareness of Influenza Through Twitter
Eric Lau
Epidemiological Inferences Using Public Information Across Waves of Influenza H7N9 Epidemic in China
Leah Martin
Improving US Google Flu Trends Estimates
Samuel Scarpino
Enhancing Disease Surveillance with Novel Data Streams: Challenges and Opportunities
Jennifer Cole
Disease Surveillance and Security: legal concerns during health emergencies
Catherine Moyes
Using DDD Data in Spatial Disease Risk Models
Jesus Enrique Herrera
An Online Crowdsourcing Genome Assembly Game to Enhance Rapid Pathogen Identification and Discovery
New Uses for Existing Data Sources
Chiara Poletto
Monitoring Influenza Syndrome and Influenza-Related Behaviour in France Through a Participatory System: 3 Years of Grippenet.fr
Xuyi Zhao
Detecting Influenza Epidemics in China using Search Query Data from Baidu
Francesco Gesualdo
Can Twitter be a Source of Information on Allergy? Correlation of Pollen Counts with Tweets Reporting Symptoms of Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis and Names of Antihistamine Drugs
Joseph Agoada
Youth Led Participatory Mapping & DDD
Qian Zhang
Forecasting Seasonal Influenza with Stochastic Microsimulations Models Assimilating Digital Surveillance Data
Todd Bodnar
How 14 Million Twitter Users Can Inform Us About Disease Transmission
Nathan Breit + Andrew Huff
Global Rapid Identification Tool Set (GRITS) for Disease Threat Identification and Diagnostics
Christopher Kiley
Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE)
Patty Kostkova
Medi+Board: A Public Health Dashboard
David Buckeridge
Digital Surveillance of Food Purchasing to Track Population Nutrition
Corinne Ringholz
The Earthquake Left Me All A Twitter: Operationalizing Big Data for Development
New Data Sources
Marcel Salathe
DDD in Plants ("PlantVillage")
Win Min THIT
Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN)
Moe Ko Oo
Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance (MBDS)
Marjorie Pollack
EpiCore Project
Daniela Perrotta
FluOutlook, an Epidemic Forecasting Observatory
Eyal Oren
Novel Methods to Predict Climate-Related Health Outcomes
Amy Kircher
FoodFormatics: Methodologies for Deriving Decisions Out of Complex Data
Lertrak Srikitjakarn
Chiang Mai Participatory Onehealth Disease Detection – A Preliminary Result
Rossana Mastrandrea
Assessing the Risk of Epidemic Spread in a Hospital by Merging Data about Hand-Hygiene Compliance and Daily Contacts
David Robinson
The New World of Big Data and Point of Care Diagnostics
Onicio Leal
Participatory Surveillance for Digital Disease Detection during FIFA Brazil World Cup 2014
Mauricio Santillana
Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.
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Check-in Information
Conference check-in will take place at the WWW conference registration check-in desk prior to DDD3 start at 9 AM Thursday, 21 May.
You will be issued a badge when you check in at the main WWW registration desk. The badge must be worn at all times within the complex.
The WWW conference and DDD3 are located in the Fortezza da Basso complex:
Fortezza da Basso • Viale Strozzi, 1 • 50123 Florence, Italy
Main registration check-in is to take place in Padiglione Spadolini, and DDD3 is located in the Teatrino Lorenese. Signs and WWW staff will direct you to DDD3 from WWW registration.
Accomodations
All registrants can book hotel reservations through the WWW conference site.
