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Friday, 16th October 2009

Lecture: Infectious Disease in the Age of Google

If you live in the DC area or will be visiting next Thursday (October 22nd), here's a lecture you might want to attend. It takes place at the Koshland Science Museum and runs from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. and costs $7/$5 for students. The Koshland Science Museum is part of the National Academy of Science. We're working to find out if the lecture will be recorded and made available online.

Although Google is in the title of the event, no one from the company will be offering a presentation. If nothing else, it shows the power of the Google name to grab the attention of people. Smart marketing.

It sounds like a fascinating 90 minutes.

From the Announcement:

The H1N1 virus is circling the globe as the newest pandemic. Before H1N1, people were concerned about SARS and avian influenza. Have you ever wondered how close these diseases are to your neighborhood right now or how health officials are tracking these diseases in remote areas of the globe? Join Amy Sonricker from HealthMap and Pamela Johnson, Co-Founder and Chief Health Officer at Voxiva, for a hands-on exploration of how computers, the internet, and phones are providing the new hi-tech and low cost tools of the future to track and prevent infectious disease outbreaks. Before you begin containing a global outbreak, you need to know where the outbreak is or could be occurring. Come meet a scientist and an entrepreneur who are using 21st century tools to predict and track emerging diseases around the world. Hear about the challenges they face and the impacts they have made or hope to make.

If you can't attend, make sure to take a look at the resources/companies who will have speakers at the lecture.

1) HealthMap
An amazing resource that tracks, maps, and provides news about disease outbreaks around the world. Be ready to spend some time here.

2) Voxiva
Interactive mobile health information delivered over a mobile phone. The service is sold to health organizations, governments, etc. However, they do offer a few demos that utilize the text message (SMS) technology Voxiva offers. Head to this page, where you can schedule a time to take medicine or calculate your body mass index.


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