Going Viral: The Digital Future of Public Health, Rachel Mc Kendry, TEDx Exeter

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 isense, an EPSRCfunded interdisciplinary research collaboration to develop global earlywarning systems for infectious diseases such as pandemic influenza, MRSA and HIV by combining selfreported symptoms on the web with lowcost mobile phoneconnected diagnostic tests.