Using Mobility Data to Guide Pandemic Response 🦠

Presented on December 4, 2020

This 90-minute panel examines the application of mobility data in monitoring the spread of the pandemic and informing containment policy, with a particular focus on privacy-preserving safeguards, methodological challenges, and translational barriers.

Speakers:
- Rafael Araos, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor, Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo

- Greg Wellenius, ScD
Professor, Dept. of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health
Visiting Scientist, GoogleHealth

- Jaimie Shaff, MPH, MPA
Director: Integrated Data Team Emergency Response Group, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

- Jure Leskovec, PhD
Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University
Chief Scientist, Pinterest
Investigator, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub

This panel is hosted by Caroline Buckee, DPhil, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, and co-founder of CrisisReady

Slides used by the presenters can be found at: https://crisisready.io/talk/using-human-mobility-data-to-inform-pandemic-response-theory-and-practice/

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