Tools and Apps to Enhance Situational Awareness for Global Disease Surveillance

Abstract

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. 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.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 09, 2014
Source ID
10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5183

Entities

People

  • Alina Deshpande
  • Eric Generous
  • Joseph Longo
  • Kirsten Taylor-mccabe
  • Kristen Margevicius
  • Lauren A Castro
  • Reid Priedhorsky

Tags

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Library and Information Science