Her research interests include outbreak analytics and spatial modelling of the spread of outbreaks. She has played a key role in the Ebola response and COVID-19 response teams at Imperial College London.

She has worked on a variety of infections including Ebola, MERS, influenza, SARS, and HIV. She is particularly interested in developing methods that can be used in real time, for a broad range of pathogens, to quickly characterise their transmissibility, detect potential changes in transmission patterns over time and space, and predict possible outbreak trajectories under a range of control measures.

He is interested in ways to measure human movement and how these estimates of human mobility can be used to model the spread of infectious disease outbreaks.

A key aim is to develop quantitative modelling tools and techniques to assimilate, analyse and integrate data from the diverse sources. The goals are to improve disease surveillance, control, preparedness and intervention.

Emily has a background in epidemiology and veterinary medicine. Emily oversees the group’s portfolio of projects and finance operations.

Kara has a background in epidemiology and manages several grant-funded projects focused on innovative infectious surveillance.

He is an international leader in healthcare information technology, and in particular, the emerging fields of informatics and big data analytics. He was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University and his work has pioneered ‘digital epidemiology’ - utilizing diverse digital data sources to understand population health. John is the co-founder of the HealthMap surveillance system.

His research focuses on applications of computing and artificial intelligence to the improvement of population health. His projects include: HealthMap, a global disease surveillance platform; MedWatcher, a medical product safety monitoring system; and StreetRx, a crowdsourcing tool for understanding black market pharmaceutical transactions. He holds a bachelor’s in computer science and mathematics from Yale University, a master’s from the MIT Media Lab, and a PhD in biomedical engineering from Boston University.

Jared works translationally bringing digital health projects from research into implementation and enterprise. His focus is on leveraging nontraditional digital data streams for health research and software development. Jared has a diverse background including biomedical research, informatics, computational modeling, and development.

In addition to his work on MRIIDS, Fernando has worked on a number of HealthMap applications including VaccineFinder and Outbreaks Near Me.

Rachel has a background in Graphic Design and designs websites for many of the group’s initiatives.

Specifically he is concerned with developing methods that readily integrate epidemiological, spatial and genomic data and how novel insights can be best used to reduce the burden of infectious pathogens through effective intervention strategies.

She is drawn to data driven insights and the use of analytical methods to optimize population-based health outcomes. She has received project development support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Elsevier Foundation, IBM, the US Agency for International Development and many others.

She has been contributing to the ongoing ProMED COVID-19 data curation process. She recently graduated from Tufts University with a major in Community Health.

Her other work includes global infection prevention and control measures in resource-limited settings with an interest in high consequence pathogens. She is currently receiving project support from PandemicTech.

I run healthsites.io which is an initiative to build an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap. We’re building the tools and community to share and update health facility data. I’m an experienced digital producer and enjoy the Human-centered design approach.