Dengue Monitoring with Mobile Phones

 
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Region: 
Latin America & Carribean
Country: 
Mexico
Partners: 
Colorado State University;
Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan;
National Institutes of Health (NIH);
Qualcomm;
Activities: 

The use of paper-based systems for data collection hampers an effective prevention and control of infectious diseases like malaria and dengue. A mhealth platform jointly developed by researchers in the U.S. and Mexico aims to give researchers near real-time montioring capacity of mosquito-borne diseases. It enables control teams to use mobile phones to immediately transmit data from the field, allowing for rapid feedback to data collectors and effective decision-making on disease control. After developing the software the system will have to be tested in the field.

Further reading: 

Fogarty International Center 2010, Dengue monitored with cell phones, News story, Dec. 2010

Colorado State University, Using cell phones for data entry to a dengue decision support system

[added Dec. 2010]

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