We do mining of all these articles and social media posts looking for clues about disease events and different populations across many different languages, we use machine learning and AI to go through all that data, filter it, tag it, and then make it available to like WHO and CDC and others.

John Brownstein

John Brownstein is a Canadian epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School as well as the Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on development of computational methods in epidemiology for applications to public health also known as computational epidemiology or e-epidemiology He is also the founder of several global public health surveillance systems including HealthMap. He is most known for his work on global tracking of disease outbreaks.

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