UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN
COVID-19 Modeling
Ongoing
Time Period: COMING SOON
COVID-19 Modeling
Background
With the COVID-19 pandemic came massive amounts of information, much of which can be false or misleading.
Problem
Public officials at PAHO-affiliated Ministries of Health needed tools to identify and respond to misinformation quickly, before its rapid spread through the networks of social media.
Solution
WHO/PAHO tasked the Illinois School of Information Sciences to create a proof-of-concept for an Anti-Infodemic Virtual Center, a set of online tools to classify, detect and respond to new information shared through social media.
Contribution
With our experience in data analytics, visualization and user interface design, we develop and release software with our cancer research collaborators for the community to use. We are building PhyloFlow, a containerized, standardized [4] cancer phylogenetics workflow [Dockstore] that can be extended with new analysis tools and deployed in varied environments by the cancer phylogenetics researchers. The outputs of this workflow are captured for display in our interactive visualization tool, PhyloDiver [prototype], that enables users to explore the evolutionary relationships between cell populations and possible therapeutic implications
VA Participants
Coming Soon!
Illinois Participants
Ian Brooks, PhD, Research Scientist, Illinois School of Information Sciences, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on Information Systems for Health
[Contributions] Information Sciences
Kate McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor, Illinois School of Information Sciences
[Contributions] Storytelling, Information Sciences
PAHO Participants
Miguel Betancourt, MD, MSc, DrPH, Consultant, PAHO
[Contributions] Public Health, Medicine / Healthcare
Felipe Mejia-Medina, Consultant, PAHO
[Contributions] Global health, Health Data, Information Systems
Ailin Tomio, MA, Consultant, PAHO
[Contributions] Applied Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Economics
Funding agency:
Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization
Government / Private Sector / Academic:
Government and Academic