Leveraging Data Science for Global Health

Leo Anthony Celi editor Maimuna S Majumder editor Patricia Ordóñez editor Juan Sebastian Osorio editor Kenneth E Paik editor Melek Somai editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:1st Aug '20

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Leveraging Data Science for Global Health cover

This open access book explores ways to leverage information technology and machine learning to combat disease and promote health, especially in resource-constrained settings. It focuses on digital disease surveillance through the application of machine learning to non-traditional data sources. Developing countries are uniquely prone to large-scale emerging infectious disease outbreaks due to disruption of ecosystems, civil unrest, and poor healthcare infrastructure – and without comprehensive surveillance, delays in outbreak identification, resource deployment, and case management can be catastrophic. In combination with context-informed analytics, students will learn how non-traditional digital disease data sources – including news media, social media, Google Trends, and Google Street View – can fill critical knowledge gaps and help inform on-the-ground decision-making when formal surveillance systems are insufficient.


“This book seems to empower the reader to gradually embark on the development of medical applications incorporating data science. … This book is well structured, written with a good level of linguistic guts, and could be recommended to data science students rather than researchers or health professionals.” (Thierry Edoh, Computing Reviews, March 24, 2022)

ISBN: 9783030479930

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

475 pages

1st ed. 2020