new Global Health Tool: HealthMap

Submitted by aaronsw on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 1:26pm.
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Healthmap is a pretty interesting project which debuted today. It automatically data-mines news and other sources for emerging disease outbreaks and then plots them on a map. Both polio and measles are included in their data-mining of disease outbreaks; working in immunizations these are two diseases I am especially interested in seeing.

June 2008 update

Submitted by aaronsw on Sun, 22/06/2008 - 10:20am.
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I will be upgrading the entire site soon to simplify and refocus on the most beneficial parts of Swala.org. Fulltime work has kept me quite busy lately but I plan to put in added energy to make Swala successful! Please stay tuned!

-Aaron

WSJ Article: "Why a Market-Driven Vaccine Plan Faces Big Obstacles"

Submitted by aaronsw on Mon, 31/12/2007 - 2:43pm.
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I caught an interesting article this morning on the second page of the Wall Street Journal. Written by Nick Timiraos, it is entitled "Why a Market-Driven Vaccine Plan Faces Big Obstacles". Its a summary outlook on the recent developments concerning how to complete the development of vaccines whose major customer base is located in developing countries (i.e the poorest of the poor).

 

 

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