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NBIC Biofeeds: A Digital Tool for Open Source Biosurveillance across Federal Agencies
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The NBIC integrates, analyzes, and distributes key information about health and disease events to help ensure the nation’s responses are well-informed, save lives, and minimize economic impact. NBIC serves as a bridge between Federal, State, Local,… read more -
Novel Analysis and Visualization of Chemical Events for Public Health Surveillance
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), on behalf the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA; project number CB10190), hosts an annual intern- based web app development contest. Previous competitions have focused on mobile biosurveillance… read more -
Social Media Analytics for Post-Disasters Disease Detection in the Philippines
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Previous research identifies social media as an informal source of near-real time health data that may add value to disease surveillance systems by providing broader access to health data across hard-toreach populations. This indirect health… read more -
Towards Influenza Surveillance in Military Populations Using Novel and Traditional Sources
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Influenza-like illness (ILI) remains a significant public health burden to both the general public and the U.S. Department of Defense. Military personnel are especially susceptible to disease outbreaks owing to the often-crowded living quarters,… read more -
Soda Pop: A Time-Series Clustering, Alarming and Disease Forecasting Application
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The Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) is a biological and chemical threat surveillance system sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). BSVE is intended to be user-friendly, multi-agency, cooperative, modular and threat agnostic… read more -
Control and Cost-benefit Analysis of Fast Spreading Diseases: The case of Ebola
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Mitigating the spread of infectious disease is of great importance for policy makers. Taking the recent outbreak of Ebola as an example, it was difficult for policy makers to identify the best course of action based on the cost-effectiveness of what… read more