Big Data Opportunities for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance

Simon I. Hay; Dylan B. George; Catherine L. Moyes; John S. Brownstein

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001413

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Big Data Opportunities for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance

Simon I. Hay ,

* E-mail: simon.hay@zoo.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Dylan B. George,

Affiliation Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Catherine L. Moyes,

Affiliation Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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John S. Brownstein

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Big Data Opportunities for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance

Simon I. Hay,
Dylan B. George,
Catherine L. Moyes,
John S. Brownstein

Published: April 2, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001413

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