Healthshark: Using Twitter for Situational Awareness in Public Health

Alana Platt, Levi Citrin and Cynthia Hood

Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 2015, vol. 11, issue 1, 19-37

Abstract: Monitoring outbreaks of contagious diseases is an important task for public health officials and they must receive outbreak information quickly to respond to this threat. Social network sites such as Twitter can be leveraged to track self-reporting of diseases in real time. This work presents a prototype system, HealthShark, which monitors Twitter for mentions of contagious diseases. The authors outline the features of HealthShark, perform a user study to assess its usefulness as a tool for monitoring disease outbreaks, and discuss potential privacy concerns’ impact on the design of such a system.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/15536548.2015.1010984

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