About HealthMap

HealthMap brings together disparate data sources to achieve a unified and comprehensive view of the current global state of infectious diseases and their effect on human and animal health. This freely available Web site integrates outbreak data of varying reliability, ranging from news sources (such as Google News) to curated personal accounts (such as ProMED) to validated official alerts (such as World Health Organization). Through an automated text processing system, the data is aggregated by disease and displayed by location for user-friendly access to the original alert. HealthMap provides a jumping-off point for real-time information on emerging infectious diseases and has particular interest for public health officials and international travelers. Download our brochure for more information about HealthMap's initiatives »

Training

Healthmap 3.0 Training Webinar
Recorded On: Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Webinar Recording
PowerPoint Slides as PDF
Q&A as PDF

This live webinar covered the following topics:

Create, save, and share customized maps
Comment on alerts
Rate alerts and sort by most significant
View alerts by number of suspected cases or deaths
Learn how to submit an alert or news of an outbreak
Utilize a featured map (e.g. FIFA/World Cup, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Haiti)

Alert Sources

HealthMap's content is aggregated from freely available information from the following sources. Use of their logos or trademarks by HealthMap is intended only to refer specifically to the respective service; it does not imply any endorsement or affiliation.

ProMED Mail: Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
World Health Organization: The United Nations specialized agency for health.
GeoSentinel: Clinician-based sentinel surveillance of individual travelers from the International Society of Travel Medicine and CDC.
EuroSurveillance: Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control. Published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Google News: A commercial news aggregation service provided by Google.
Moreover: A commercial news feed aggregation service provided by VeriSign.
Wildlife Disease Information Node: A news feed from the Global Wildlife Disease News Map provided by the NBII-Wildlife Disease Information Node at the US Geological Survey.

Software Tools

HealthMap is a Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP application and relies on the following open products. Special thanks to their authors.

HealthMap also uses Fisher-Robinson Bayesian filtering, as described by Gary Robinson in A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem.