Digital surveillance for enhanced detection and response to outbreaks

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, USA; Division of International Nutrition, Department of Food, Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: aranka.anema@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁷ Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK; Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.

Aranka Anema et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2014 Nov.

. 2014 Nov;14(11):1035-1037.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70953-3. Epub 2014 Oct 19.

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, USA; Division of International Nutrition, Department of Food, Nutrition and Health, Faculty of Land and Food Systems University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: aranka.anema@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA; Children's Hospital Informatics Program at the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶ Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁷ Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK; Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.

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