Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given
rise to a new kind of epidemiology. Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can
provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations …

Digital Epidemiology is a new field that has been growing rapidly in the past few years,
fueled by the increasing availability of data and computing power, as well as by
breakthroughs in data analytics methods. In this short piece, I provide an outlook of where I …

On March 31, 2013, Chinese health officials notified the World Health Organization of three
cases of human infection with novel inf luenza A (H7N9). Since then, 132 people have been
infected, 37 of them fatally (see figure, Panel A). To date, there is no evidence of ongoing …

Internet-derived information has been recently recognized as a valuable tool for
epidemiological investigation. Google Trends, a Google Inc. portal, generates data on
geographical and temporal patterns according to specified keywords. The aim of this study …

This paper poses the question of whether people have a duty to participate in digital
epidemiology. While an implied duty to participate has been argued for in relation to
biomedical research in general, digital epidemiology involves processing of non-medical …

Clinical epidemiology is conventionally defined as a type of research focused on dissecting
the impact of precursors, causes, or courses of diseases in the general population [1]. Its
ultimate scope is promoting better healthcare in terms of implementing more efficient …

This article examines how digital epidemiology and eHealth coalesce into a powerful health
surveillance system that fundamentally changes present notions of body and health. In the
age of Big Data and Quantified Self, the conceptual and practical distinctions between …

Public health surveillance systems are important for tracking disease dynamics. In recent
years, social and real-time digital data sources have provided new means of studying
disease transmission. Such affordable and accessible data have the potential to offer new …

Objectives: We reviewed digital epidemiological studies to characterize how researchers are
using digital data by topic domain, study purpose, data source, and analytic method.
Methods: We reviewed research articles published within the last decade that used digital …

The MSPP, with technical assistance from the US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and its partners, employed many traditional forms of epidemiological
surveillance to track the outbreak and try to stem its spread. These included visiting …