The UCL Festival of Digital Health is proud to be hosting this workshop on global public health:

This one day workshop will discuss the role of social media, crowdsourcing and participatory surveillance for public health. The availability of heterogeneous big data sources providing a constant stream of real time situation-aware data. While the potential to improve health outcomes and provide signals for early waring has been demonstrated, more robust systems integrated with surveillance services needs to be developed underpinned with robust user engagement. This workshop will present existing projects in the domain and discuss strategic directions for the future.