HealthMap, a team of researchers, epidemiologists and software developers at Boston Children's Hospital founded in 2006, is an established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats. The freely available Web site (healthmap.org) and mobile app 'Outbreaks Near Me' deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases for a diverse audience including libraries, local health departments, governments, and international travelers.

Through a partnership with the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT project, the HealthMap PathFinder app filters data sources to highlight expert-curated discussions and validated official reports on priority infectious and zoonotic diseases considered a threat to human and animal health. PathFinder provides spatially explicit and real-time health alerts to support travel advisories and health assessments globally. Through HealthMap's automated process, updating 24/7/365, the system monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, visualizes and disseminates official information about these priority diseases in nine languages.

Download the HealthMap brochure to learn more about HealthMap's digital disease detection system and Outbreaks Near Me.

Visit the USAID PREDICT project on HealthMap to learn more about the PREDICT and HealthMap partnership.

PathFinder Alert Sources

HealthMap's content is aggregated from freely available information from the following sources. Use of their logos or trademarks by HealthMap is intended only to refer specifically to the respective service; it does not imply any endorsement or affiliation.

ProMED Mail
Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

World Health Organization
The United Nations specialized agency for health.

GeoSentinel
Clinician-based sentinel surveillance of individual travelers from the International Society of Travel Medicine and CDC.

OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health
The intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide.

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
An intergovernmental organization for ensuring worldwide food quality and agricultural productivity.

EuroSurveillance
Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control. Published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Wildlife Data Integration Network
A news feed from WDIN's Global Wildlife Disease News Map. WDIN is a project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, School of Veterinary Medicine.