Study of transmission of diseases using cell phone from infected people

• Grant number: 19/16419-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: September 01, 2019
• End date: August 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Epidemiology
• Principal Investigator: Helder Takashi Imoto Nakaya
• Grantee: Jeevan Giddaluru
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas (FCF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/14933-2 - Integrative biology applied to human health, AP.JP2

Abstract

Mapping hotspots for transmission of infectious diseases can offer great help in controlling outbreaks and eliminating reservoirs of infection. Usually, hospital staff in endemic areas try to determine such places by asking patients with transmissible infections, those places where they live/work (for diseases which require chronic exposure) or visited a few days prior going to the hospital (for acute diseases). However, information obtained through questionnaires are generally vague, inaccurate and not integrated into databases. This makes the process manual, slow, and of little value for large-scale epidemiological studies. Since a significant portion of the population has mobile phones equipped with GPS, we have created an online platform SiPoS (https://sipos.fcf.usp.br/), where patients can provide the GPS data of their cell phones voluntarily and anonymously. We propose to use SiPoS platform to study transmission patterns of various infectious diseases and pinpoint the hotspots for infectious disease transmission. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ARIAS-CARRASCO, RAUL; GIDDALURU, JEEVAN; CARDOZO, LUCAS E.; MARTINS, FELIPE; MARACAJA-COUTINHO, VINICIUS; NAKAYA, HELDER I.. OUTBREAK: a user-friendly georeferencing online tool for disease surveillance. Biological Research, v. 54, n. 1, JUL 8 2021. (18/14933-2, 13/08216-2, 19/16419-7, 18/21934-5, 17/50137-3)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GIDDALURU, Jeevan. Using location history data from cell phones of infectious patients for disease surveillance. 2023. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) São Paulo.