The document discusses tools created by InSTEDD to improve collaboration during disease outbreaks and crises. It describes four free and open-source tools - GeoChat for mobile reporting, Mesh4x for synchronizing data across devices and networks, Riff for collaborative analysis and decision making, and TrackerNews for event monitoring. It provides examples of how the tools could help coordinate response to a reported illness and allows different organizations to share information.

1. InSTEDD Tools for Outbreak Epidemiology Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS and Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP

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3. We create (or find) free and open-source software for collaboration toward collective action. We then teach other people how to create it for themselves Slide

4. Slide Questions in outbreak epidemiology What information isn’t getting to those who need it? Which groups should be making more decisions together ? What field reports and broadcast alerts should come faster ? Which systems need to share information? Collaboration… How much can we learn from what we already have ?

5. Slide Refugee trauma management Cholera outbreak Katrina response In our view, collaboration in outbreak epidemiology is THE critical task.

11. GeoChat

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15. Hybrid Disease Surveillance Surveillance Systems Capture Filter Verify Event Monitoring Indicator Based Event Based Collect Analyze Interpret Feedback Feedback Detection Response Signal Control Alert

17. Slide Information streams… … with collaborative spaces … and cognitive analytics Seven syndromes and 10 transmission modes > 100 infectious diseases > 180 micro-organisms > 140 symptoms > 50 chemicals

20. Innovation Lab ( Physical space in Cambodia ) 400 hour workplan 125 hour curriculum Curriculum for ownership of InSTEDD tools and beyond Neutral space for academia, Ministry, local NGOs, more Dissolving silos – teaching as cross-functional teams Capacity enhancement for IHRs and MDGs Back to Eric…

21. TrackerNews.net

24. Further Information Slide [email_address] [email_address] +1-650-353-4440 www.TrackerNews.net taha.instedd.org