Mission
Our mission is to enable rapid sharing of trusted and open public health data to advance the response to infectious diseases.
Press
Today an informal network of hundreds of volunteers has assembled records for more than a million cases in 142 countries around the world. It may well be the single most accurate portrait of the virus’s spread through the human population in existence.
Who We Are
Global.health is a collaborative effort by technologists and researchers from leading international institutions to build a trusted, detailed, and accurate resource of real-time infectious disease data early in the outbreak, tracking cases for the first 100 days.
As research becomes increasingly data-driven, our understanding of the world around us is only as accurate as the data we have available. We believe in equitable health research that serves communities of all backgrounds. This is why we built Global.health – a platform that brings together outbreak data from diverse communities and makes it available to all, regardless of geographic location or organizational affiliation.
What We Do
By creating a centralized open resource of verified case-level data from around the world, our aim is to accelerate the work of researchers, public health officials, and the global community to better prepare for, respond to, and reduce the burden of disease outbreaks.
Our 100 Days Mission aims to provide early situational awareness and fills a critical gap in the continuum of data during outbreaks. Our system is flexible and scalable – mpox and Ebola demonstrated the value and utility of the G.h system beyond COVID-19 and showcased our ability to quickly adapt focus to an emerging or re-emerging pathogen.
In the next phase, we are building on previous outbreak experience to enhance our public health platform by integrating multiple data streams and developing tools for downstream analytics to derive public health relevant insights for research and decision making. We have partnered with international and national health agencies for representation, to support local capacity building, and advance data preparedness for future global outbreak response.
We hope that this work will help cultivate a global community invested in improving health outcomes for all through open and secure data sharing. Get involved!
Press
“Today an informal network of hundreds of volunteers has assembled records for more than a million cases in 142 countries around the world. It may well be the single most accurate portrait of the virus’s spread through the human population in existence.”
“... an unusual effort to compile a “line list” of confirmed cases by sifting through government reports, the medical literature, reliable media accounts, and social media. Line lists contain incredibly useful information that are not visible in aggregated case counts.”
07 February 2020
“One important example of how this data has been used is how early in the outbreak the global scientific community was able to identify the five to 14-day incubation period of the virus. ”
“It's got several goals: inform the public on how this outbreak began, give a real-time look at how the situation is unfolding both locally and globally, and show what's working to stem the spread.”
“The scientific community has increasingly argued for the value of sharing data openly, as it allows for cross-validation of results which makes new discoveries more robust and reliable.”
“Understanding the spread of COVID-19 is critical to informing public health decisions and lessening its impact on communities. We’re supporting the development of data platforms to help model disease and projects that explore the use of diverse public datasets to more accurately predict the spread of the virus.”
Our Team
Sandra Adele
Researcher, University of Oxford
Christina M. Astley
MD, ScD, Attending in Endocrinology, Boston Children’s Hospital;
Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Anya Lindstrom Battle
Data Scientist and Researcher, University of Oxford
Joe Brilliant
Project Lead; MBA, University of Oxford
John Brownstein
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Emily Cohn
Director, Innovation Operations, Boston Children’s Hospital
Abhishek Dasgupta
Data Scientist, University of Oxford
Bernardo Gutierrez
Data Engineer, University of Oxford
Jared Hawkins
Director, Technology & Product, Innovation @ Boston Children’s Hospital; Computational Health Informatics Faculty @ Harvard University
Felix Jackson
Researcher and DPhil Student, Computer Science Department, University of Oxford
Robel Kassa
Software Engineer, Northeastern University
Rebecca Katz
Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University
Moritz Kraemer
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Graham Lee
Technical Lead, University of Oxford
Vukosi Marivate
Professor of Data Science, University of Pretoria
David Pigott
DPhil, Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington
Chris Remmel
Data Engineer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Caitlin Rivers
PhD, Assistant Professor and Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
Samuel V. Scarpino
Phd, Assistant Professor,
Northeastern University; External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute
James Sheldon
Senior Software Engineer, Northeastern University
Gal Wachtel
Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Google.org Fellows & Contributors
Anna Achilles
Program Manager, Fellowships
Avani Agarwal
UX Designer
Alex Benjamin
Software Engineer
Aaron Cansler
UX Research
Shruti Chandra
UX Design Manager
Manu Cornet
Software Engineer
Alexander Diaz
Head of Crisis Response & Humanitarian Aid
Rasmi Elasmar
Technical Program Manager
Timothé Faudot
Software Engineer
Leslie Leland
Engineering Director
Kelly Moran
Software Engineer
Kernie Obimakinde
Program Manager
Allyson Pemberton
Software Engineer
Isamar Pena
Marketing
Carla Puttini
Marketing Consultant
Stephen Ratcliffe
Product Manager
Anurag Reddy
Marketing Consultant
Matilde Ricciardi
Marketing Consultant
Tommy Shimko
UX Designer
Mia Tortolani
Marketing Consultant
Collaborators
Arianna Maever L. Amit
Researcher, School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Tejas Athni
Undergraduate Student, Stanford University
Isha Berry
PhD Student, University of Toronto
Darlan da Silva Candido
PhD Student, University of Oxford
Maria M. Cobo
Data Engineer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford
Nuno Faria
Imperial College London and University of Oxford
Sarah Hill
Research Fellow, Royal Veterinary College
Liz Hurley
Experience Designer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Brennan Klein
Researcher, Northeastern University
Sabrina Li
PhD Candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Lucy Matkin
Scientific Program Manager, University of Oxford
Veincent Christian F. Pepito
Researcher, School of Medicine and Public Health, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Oliver Pybus
Researcher, University of Oxford
Thom Rawson
Research Assistant, University of Oxford
Flavia Salles
Researcher/Master Student, Universidade de São Paulo
Gaurav Tuli
Sr. Data Scientist, Boston Children’s Hospital
Zoë Willis
PhD, Senior Research Officer, Office of National Statistics
Chien-Hsi Wu
Lecturer in Statistics, University of Southampton
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