Participatory Epidemiology
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
mWater will create a social network that provides a crowdsourced virtual water monitoring infrastructure to communities worldwide that lack monitoring capacity.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
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We present a brief summary of some promising mobile applications for health monitoring and information sharing, together with preliminary results from a study of our deployment of a smartphone application which enabled the general public to report infectious disease events. These early efforts at tapping the power of mobile software tools illustrate potentially important steps in improving health systems as well as engaging the public as participants in the public health process.
This blog was born of my own stymied lit review following a recent grant I was awarded to study participatory epi in post-disaster recovery and relief. I realized just what a big hole there is and, always a collaborator, decided to reach out to others online. Anyone can post here so please also participate! Ideal posts will share articles or books that add to the growing field, summaries of your own work and findings, or valuable resources like conferences and RFPs.
