Advocacy for Open Data and Open Science

Summary

Building on our experience in disease data collection throughout the COVID Pandemic, we continue to advocate for the development of a standardized public health data reporting system for continuous collection and situational awareness. Such a system will both enable sound and timely decisions when faced with the next potential outbreak, and can help us establish the public trust necessary to combat health-related disinformation

Related Publications

  1. Blauer Beth, Brownstein John, Gardner Lauren, Kraemer Moritz UG, Leiva Rioja Zoila, Mathieu Edouard, Redies Isabel, Morgan Oliver W. Innovative platforms for data aggregation, linkage and analysis in the context of pandemic and epidemic intelligence. Euro Surveill. 2023;28(24):pii=2200860. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.24.2200860
  2. Nixon et al. An Evaluation of Prospective COVID-19 Modeling: From Data to Science Translation. The Lancet Digital Health 4 (10), e738-e747. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00148-0
  3. Nixon et al. Real-time COVID-19 Forecasting: A Perspective on the Challenges and Opportunities of Model Performance and Translation. The Lancet Digital Health 4 (10), e699-e701. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00167-4
  4. Gardner L, Ratcliff J, Dong E, Katz A, A need for open public data standards and sharing in light of COVID-19, Lancet Inf Dis 21 (4), e80, 2020.
  5. Badr H, Zaitchik BF, Kerr GH, et. al. Unified real-time environmental-epidemiological data for multiscale modeling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data.  2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02276-y

Faculty

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Lauren Gardner​

CSSE Director