Biosurveillance In the News

2020

• Collaboration to use supercomputers to analyze COVID-19, its treatments, and potential cures featured in Scientific American and other publications
  
• Jeanne Fair and Sara Del Valle featured in the Santa Fe Reporter discussing the link between coronavirus transmission and animals as well as the development of epidemiological models to understand its spread (Santa Fe Reporter, February 2020)
• Jeanne Fair talks about the coronavirus outbreak and the risks of zoonotic diseases in The Daily Beast. (The Daily Beast website, January 2020)

2019

• RETRO-Rx analytics tool receives an R&D 100 Gold award for Corporate Social Responsibility and is selected as a 2019 R&D 100 Finalist (LANL science brief, March 2019) 
• Helping health workers understand unfolding disease outbreaks (Albuquerque Journal, April 2019)
• Sara Del Valle speaks to CBS News about how scientists at the Laboratory are using social media to track and sometimes predict disease spread
• How Big Data Can Help Save the World (Scientific American, March 2019)

2018

• Chikungunya challenge (LANL news brief, July 2018)
• Making Sense of Sequences (1663 magazine, August 2018)
• Tackling antibiotic resistance (Discover, April 2018)
• Predicting the spread of HIV (National Geographic, August 2018)
• Data-driven disease forecasting featured in National Geographic and Scientific American
• Clostridium difficile study  (Albuquerque Journal, February 2018)

2017

• Evaluating risk for Zika (LANL news story, May 2017)

2016

• DNA markers distinguish between harmless, deadly bacteria (LANL news release, December 2016)
• EDGE bioinformatics brings genomics to everyone (LANL news release, November 2016)
• Analyzing genetic tree sheds new light on disease outbreaks (LANL news release, February 2016)

2015

• The Mold Rush (1663 magazine, October,2015)
• Wikidemiology (1663 magazine, May 2015)
• 3 Big Data Initiatives that are Targeting the Measles Outbreak (Predictive Analytics World, March 18, 2015)
• LANL develops website to help fight measles (KOAT news, February 14, 2015)
• Biosurveillance Gateway Maps Epidemics in Effort to Learn Ways to Stop Contagion's Spread (GovTech, February 9, 2015)

2014

• Alina Deshpande—Strengthening the fight against pandemics (LANL Women who Inspire, March 10, 2014)

2013

• Biosurveillance-Stopping Disease Before it Stops Us (1663 magazine, June 2013)