Going Viral: The Digital Future of Public Health | Rachel McKendry | TEDxExeter

Viruses and other infectious diseases, like Ebola, are some of the main threats to our increasingly interconnected world. Rachel asks how we can pick up infections at the onset of symptoms and provide an early warning system.

Rachel McKendry is Professor of Biomedicine and Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL. She is Director of i-sense, an EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research collaboration to develop global early-warning systems for infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza, MRSA and HIV by combining self-reported symptoms on the web with low-cost mobile phone-connected diagnostic tests.

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[Mariapink]

Anyone else watching this right now in the context of coronavirus?

[gregmartin]

Interesting talk... Looking forward to seeing more of this.

[shola]

This presentation was made in 2015 and it is just as relevant as to what is happening presently in the face of the deadly COVID 19. having a foresight is great but implementing the result will bring about change for the planet. Great talk

[MultiRavindra]

A very Innovative project indeed..Please include Physicians from the Caribbean on your team.

[jacquelinetan]

This is a good research. What happened with this study?

[impressionexpression]

2020. One of the videos that could have saved us.

[Rprashar]

What happen to this project is this still process bcoz it is amazing idea to control diseases using technology. Love from india to this intelligent lady ❤❤

[danniboy]

This is the future, but it's also a day to day reality. This was a very informative talk, I'll look for more of this conversation.

[juliannap]

Have you guys considered partnering with AI search engines for people looking up symptoms? Im not sure if enough people use them compared to regular search engines, but it might help speed up the process of expanding this idea's impact

[MeredithWilestheAverage]

Here in 2020, during COVID-19. Something Americans should have watched.

[yudhaesap]

Indeed. It needs an orchestra to create a symphony. Better we work cross profesionalism to cure, health and all aspects itself.

[alsodiri]

This video was 6 years ago she was talking about viral pandemic, in 2020 we face what she was talking about

[mishalwaseem]

Fast forward to 2020. The future is now.

[Restricted_Account]

4:32 Exactly what Coronavirus has done.

[KingJemba]

And we never knew the storm of Covid was ahead of us. if only...