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Roxanne Moore

Emory University
MPH Global Epidemiology Candidate
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Who am I?
I am a second-year Master in Public Health (MPH) candidate in Global Epidemiology at Emory University. Specifically, I am leveraging innovative data-mining surveillance techniques to facilitate infectious disease tracking in complex humanitarian emergency i.e. West African Ebola.
I have previously worked with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) in innovative technologies for crowd-sourcing emergency information, and will hopefully continue supporting these agencies in the coming months regard the Ebola response efforts in West Africa.

What do I do?
I began working in open data surveillance during Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan (2013). During this time, I worked with Standby Task Force (SBTF) in data-mining and tagging infrastructure damage, displaced populations, and request for help from in-country Tweets. These tags were then geo-located and placed on a map to facilitate humanitarian logistics and in-country coordination. Currently, I am working with open data streams from the World Health Organization (WHO), Liberian/Guinea/Sierra Leone Ministries of Health (MOH), and news media to determine daily source variability in reported case and mortality information.

Where did my interest in Open come from?
I am a huge Open Data advocate, especially within my two fields of health and emergency response both which have large ethical components. All of my work is dependent upon open-source analytic tools and access to redistributable information. Without persons advocating upon the continuation of open-source technologies and information this work would not be possible. I would love to chat with more people regarding the ethics of open data, data privacy, data protection, right to share, and open government initiatives.