Participatory Disease Surveillance: Can we utilise citizen's participation to

empower our public health system?

3 years ago my health was so bad

And my wife was caught a serious flu(originally thought to be H1N1)

For the first time in my life, I realisedthat our health responsiveness is so slow

How can we response to our sicknessFASTER?

How can we utilise everyday’s deviceto be a participatory platform?

2005

2013

Luca Bruno / AP

Michael Sohn / AP

How could we make public healthmore collaborative?

Ministry of public health is working on disease surveillance system with hospitals

Citizen

Government

Citizen

Government

Participatory Disease Surveillance

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Influenzanet

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flutracker

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Self-reporting; Digital Volunteerism

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It’s about YOU to be part of collaborative problem solving

Simple questions that could tremendously improve our public health

How do you feel?

I’m fine I’m sick

How do you feel?

I’m fine I’m sick☑

(more symptoms to be answered…)

Anonymous health parameters

Locations

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Crowd sourcing+

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Public Health Empowerment

Thank you