Using Social Media for Biosurveillance: Gap between Research and Action

Authors

  • Tera Reynolds International Society for Disease Surveillance, Boston, MA, United States
  • Mark Cameron Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Acton, ACT, Australia.
  • Mike Conway University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
  • Amy Ising University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
  • Eric H.Y. Lau University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
  • Jennifer Olsen Skoll Global Threats Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States
  • Julie Pavlin Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, United States
  • Bill Storm Ohio Department of Health, Columbus, OH, United States
  • Katie Suda University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Knoxville, TN, United States
  • Courtney Courtney Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Kennewick, WA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5195

Abstract

There is a significant body of literature on the use of social media for biosurveillance. However, less is known about the impact of integrating social media into public health practice, and resulting interventions. This motivated the ISDS Social Media for Disease Surveillance Workgroup to conduct a systematic literature review on the use of social media for actionable disease surveillance. Based on the preliminary results, there is little published literature on this topic, possibly suggesting that it is particularly challenging to translate research using social media for disease surveillance into practice.

Author Biography

Courtney Courtney, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Kennewick, WA, United States

Dr. Courtney Corley is a Health Security and Informatics Research Scientist at PNNL. His research centers on the development of transformational analytics, which provide analytical insight at interaction speed on unstructured and semi-structured data streams. His biosecurity and biosurveillance research works towards the development of computational explanatory and anticipatory models integrating social, behavioral, and cultural factors with biomedical. Dr. Corley's research and project management activities with PNNL focus on One Health and national security solutions.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Reynolds, T., Cameron, M., Conway, M., Ising, A., Lau, E. H., Olsen, J., … Courtney, C. (2014). Using Social Media for Biosurveillance: Gap between Research and Action. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5195

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Lightning Talks

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