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A BEACON for Novel Disease Threats: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Informal Event-Based Outbreak Surveillance
Nahid Bhadelia, Ioannis Ch Paschalidis, John S Brownstein, Britta Lassman
Dec 30, 2025
Public reporting guidelines for outbreak data: Enabling accountability for effective outbreak response by developing standards for transparency and uniformity
V Grégoire, A W Zhu, C M Brown, J S Brownstein, D Cardo, F Cumming, R Danila, C A Donnelly, J S Duchin, M A Fill, K Fullerton, S Funk, D George, S Hopkins, M U G Kraemer, M Layton, J Lessler, R Lynfield, J M McCaw, T D McPherson, Z Moore, O Morgan, S Riley, R Rosenfeld, E Samoff, W Schaffner, J Shaffner, R Sturm, D Terashita, H Walke, R E Washington, C M Rivers
Dec 20, 2025
Development of self-phenotyping tools to empower patients and improve diagnostics
Kent Shefchek, Sonja I Ziniel, Julie A McMurry, Catherine A Brownstein, John S Brownstein, Erin Rooney Riggs, Matthew Might, Damian Smedley, Amy Clugston, Alan H Beggs, Heather Paterson, Peter N Robinson, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Ingrid A Holm, Melissa A Haendel
Oct 31, 2025
Selected Projects
Outbreaks Near Me

Outbreaks Near Me is an online crowdsourced respiratory illness surveillance system that allows individuals to report their symptoms in real-time in order to benefit their community.
BEACON: The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis, and Communications Network

BEACON combines emerging infectious disease surveillance, a global network of subject matter experts, and the power of artificial intelligence and large language models to contextualize health alerts on a global scale.
Global.health

Global.health is a first-of-its-kind global repository and visualization platform enabling open access to real-time de-identified epidemiologcal line-list case data for infectious diseases and emerging outbreaks.
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