Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance

Deshpande, Alina; Margevicius, Kristen; Generous, Eric; Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten; Castro, Lauren; Longo, Joseph; Priedhorsky, Reid

doi:10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5183

Title: Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance

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Situational awareness is important for both early warning and early detection of a disease outbreak. We will describe a suite of tools developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory that provide actionable information and knowledge for enhanced situational awareness during an unfolding event. The BRD is a searchable database, a one stop shop for disease surveillance resources and can be used for validating information received about disease outbreaks. Furthermore, the BaRD is a searchable database that catalogs and classifies epidemiological model-specific information to allow facile selection. The SWAP is an app to provide a context for a rapidly unfolding event through graphical visualization.

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Deshpande, Alina ^[1]; Margevicius, Kristen ^[1]; Generous, Eric ^[1]; Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten ^[1]; Castro, Lauren ^[1]; Longo, Joseph ^[1]; Priedhorsky, Reid ^[1]

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2014

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science Division; Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1629276

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1947-2579

Publisher:: University of Illinois at Chicago

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; infectious disease; decision support; surveillance

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                    Deshpande, Alina, Margevicius, Kristen, Generous, Eric, Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten, Castro, Lauren, Longo, Joseph, and Priedhorsky, Reid. Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Deshpande, Alina, Margevicius, Kristen, Generous, Eric, Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten, Castro, Lauren, Longo, Joseph, & Priedhorsky, Reid. Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5183

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                    Deshpande, Alina, Margevicius, Kristen, Generous, Eric, Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten, Castro, Lauren, Longo, Joseph, and Priedhorsky, Reid. Sun .  
"Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5183.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1629276.

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  title        = {Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance},

  author       = {Deshpande, Alina and Margevicius, Kristen and Generous, Eric and Taylor-McCabe, Kirsten and Castro, Lauren and Longo, Joseph and Priedhorsky, Reid},

  abstractNote = {Situational awareness is important for both early warning and early detection of a disease outbreak. We will describe a suite of tools developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory that provide actionable information and knowledge for enhanced situational awareness during an unfolding event. The BRD is a searchable database, a one stop shop for disease surveillance resources and can be used for validating information received about disease outbreaks. Furthermore, the BaRD is a searchable database that catalogs and classifies epidemiological model-specific information to allow facile selection. The SWAP is an app to provide a context for a rapidly unfolding event through graphical visualization.},

  doi          = {10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5183},

  journal      = {Online Journal of Public Health Informatics},

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  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2014},

  month        = {Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2014}

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