Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Disease surveillance systems are a cornerstone of public health tracking and prevention.
This review addresses the use, promise, perils, and ethics of social media and internet …

An ever-increasing share of human interaction, communication, and culture is recorded as
digital text. We provide an introduction to the use of text as an input to economic research …

Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of
respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. In addition to …

With the recent rise in popularity and scale of social media, a growing need exists for
systems that can extract useful information from huge amounts of data. We address the issue …

Abstract Google Flu Trends can detect regional outbreaks of influenza 7–10 days before
conventional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveillance systems. We describe …

Rapid response to a health epidemic is critical to reduce loss of life. Existing methods mostly
rely on expensive surveys of hospitals across the country, typically with lag times of one to …

The second annual Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Conference, which took place in
February 2007 in Arlington, Virginia, focused on recent progress in basic and clinical …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Background A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and lack of resources have
interfered with timely detection and reporting of dengue cases in many endemic countries …