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Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health

Marcel Salathé

The digital revolution has contributed to very large data sets (ie, big data) relevant for public health. The two major data sources are electronic health records from traditional health systems and patient-generated data. As the two data sources have comp ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

CrowdNotifier: Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Presence Tracing

Marcel Salathé, Edouard Bugnion, Carmela González Troncoso, Wouter Lueks

There is growing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted beyond close proximity contacts, in particular in closed and crowded environments with insufficient ventilation. To help mitigation efforts, contact tracers need a way to notify those who were pr ...

2021

Deploying Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Josef Payer, James Richard Larus, Marcel Salathé, Edouard Bugnion, Carmela González Troncoso, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Wouter Lueks, Sylvain Chatel, Theresa Stadler

2022

Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic

Marcel Salathé

Traditional contact tracing is one of the most powerful weapons people have in the battle against a pandemic, especially when vaccines do not yet exist or do not afford complete protection from infection. But the effectiveness of contact tracing hinges on ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2023

Timeliness of online COVID-19 reports from official sources

Olesia Altunina, Marcel Salathé, Laura Espinosa Montalban

IntroductionMaking epidemiological indicators for COVID-19 publicly available through websites and social media can support public health experts in the near-real-time monitoring of the situation worldwide, and in the establishment of rapid response and pu ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Digital epidemiology: what is it, and where is it going?

Marcel Salathé

Digital Epidemiology is a new field that has been growing rapidly in the past few years, fueled by the increasing availability of data and computing power, as well as by breakthroughs in data analytics methods. In this short piece, I provide an outlook of ...

BMC2018

Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

Mathias Josef Payer, James Richard Larus, Marcel Salathé, Edouard Bugnion, Carmela González Troncoso, Wouter Lueks, Theresa Stadler, Daniele Antonioli

In the wake of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), contact tracing has become a key element of strategies to control the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Given the rapid and intense spread of SARS-CoV ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2020

Snakebite and snake identification: empowering neglected communities and health-care providers with AI

Marcel Salathé

2019

Clusters of science and health related Twitter users become more isolated during the COVID-19 pandemic

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller

COVID-19 represents the most severe global crisis to date whose public conversation can be studied in real time. To do so, we use a data set of over 350 million tweets and retweets posted by over 26 million English speaking Twitter users from January 13 to ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Toward a Common Performance and Effectiveness Terminology for Digital Proximity Tracing Applications

Marcel Salathé, Carmela González Troncoso, Wouter Lueks

2021

Minimum days estimation for reliable dietary intake information: findings from a digital cohort

Mathieu Théo Eric Verest, Marcel Salathé, Rohan Singh

Background/Objectives Accurate dietary assessment is essential for understanding diet–health relationships, yet day-to-day variability in intake complicates the identification of individuals’ usual consumption. This study aimed to determine the minimum num ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Privacy-preserving contact tracing curbed COVID

Marcel Salathé

Despite controversies over decentralized contact-tracing apps, the data now show that they saved thousands of lives during the pandemic. National and international authorities must heed the lessons. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Assessing Public Opinion on CRISPR-Cas9: Combining Crowdsourcing and Deep Learning

Marcel Salathé, Martin Mathias Müller

Background: The discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing method has opened unprecedented new potential for biological and medical engineering, sparking a growing public debate on both the potential and dangers of CRISPR applications. Given the speed ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2020

A research agenda for digital proximity tracing apps

Marcel Salathé, Edouard Bugnion, Carmela González Troncoso, Theresa Stadler

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2020

WHO and ITU establish benchmarking process for artificial intelligence in health

Marcel Salathé

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2019