Re: Ebola and big data: Waiting on hold

Dear colleagues,

As many of you know, the Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance is partnering to engage simulations, network science and big data in refining the Phase II Ebola Epidemic Management Initiative. The secondary data from many sources (including cell phone data) will be particularly useful when overlaid by primary mission critical function status data from over 1000 communities throughout West Africa. It is proposed under the Phase II Ebola Epidemic Management Initiative that the data from the 30 highest priority Resilience Capacity Zones within and around the most dangerous Ebola-affected areas in Liberia and Guinea be used over the next two months to optimize intervention strategies in converting Resilience Capacity Zones into Ebola-resistant Areas and Ebola-free Areas.

The goal is to substantially degrade the Ebola transmission and translocation rates, while increasing the sustainability of communities now also suffering from the collapse of their health care systems, the food supplies, and other mission critical functions. Our big data analysis and mapping of the Resilience Capacity Zones will also explore natural experiments in Liberia and Guinea, where communities (like the Firestone community in Liberia, the Sinkor neighborhood in Monrovia, and the Koinadugu district in Sierra Leone) have dramatically reduced their Ebola transmission rates and in some cases have blocked transmission or eradicated Ebola in their area.

We hope to engage the next level of discussions with the UN on these issues during the next ten days.

Please review the Economist article attached below and provide us with any comments, questions, or suggestions you may have.

Mike

Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.

Coordinator
Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance

Chairman
Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.

Executive Director
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.

Cell: 202-468-7899
Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com

http://resiliencesystem.org

GRS USRS All Africa RSs and RI

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Ebola, Big Data

On Oct 26, 2014, at 8:02 AM, George <hurlburt@md.metrocast.net> wrote:

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