Letter: Aggregated mobility data could help fight COVID-19

Dr. Satchit Balsari, fellow at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, recently co-authored a letter in Science magazine advocating for the use of aggregated mobility data to measure the effectiveness of COVID-19 response efforts such as social distancing. In the letter, the authors write: “The research and public health response communities can and should use population mobility data collected by private companies, with appropriate legal, organizational, and computational safeguards…

Big Health Data: When Consent Is Not Enough

In 2019, India launched the National Digital Health Mission to ready India’s health data ecosystem for the technologies of the future. There is also an urgent need to make health data portable, without comprising security and privacy. At this talk, Rahul Matthan and Satchit Balsari will discuss the implications of global and regional jurisprudence on the generation, exchange, and application of health data in India: Is consent enough? Can health…