Announcements

• Bio.Diaspora featured on Visualising Data: "Bio.Diaspora: Visualising interactions between populations and travel" - February 2, 2012
• Bio.Diaspora featured in The Lancet Infectious Diseases - January 16, 2012
    Lancet Infectious Diseases - "Infectious disease surveillance and modelling across geographic frontiers and scientific specialties"        Media Coverage
• BBC News
• CBC News - Health
• The National Post
• The Huffington Post
• The Toronto Star


• Dr. Kamran Khan discusses the role that MaRS plays in the Bio.Diaspora project - BUSINESS without BORDERS - November 8, 2011
• In a two-part series, SocialFinance.ca highlights Bio.Diaspora's role in predicting the next pandemic: Part I, Part II - October, 2011
• Bio.Diaspora featured during the North American release of Contagion
       Print
• The Toronto Star - September 8, 2011
• The Globe and Mail - September 8, 2011
• Metro - September 9, 2011

       Video
• CTV News - September 12, 2011
• CityNews Toronto - September 12, 2011
• Global News - September 12, 2011

       Radio
• NewsTalk 1010, Jim Richards - September 9, 2011
• 570 News, Gary Doyle Show - September 12, 2011
• KXNT Radio, CBS Las Vegas, The Bower Show - September 13, 2011
• News 95.7, Maritime Morning with Jordi Morgan - September 14, 2011


• TIME Science - "Outbreak.com: Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases in Real Time" - August 16, 2011
• Read about Bio.Diaspora on IBM's Smarter Planet blog - "Preventing an epidemic hot zone of Olympic proportions" - July 21, 2011
• Dr. Kamran Khan's research on air travel and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic featured in CTV News article - July 17, 2011
• Bio.Diaspora is part of a MaRS blog post on Canadian innovation in health and science - July 7, 2011
• Dr. Kamran Khan and Dr. John Brownstein featured in a CTV News video clip on preparing for a pandemic – June 27, 2011
• Dr. Kamran Khan demonstrates the Bio.Diaspora web application, created at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's.
• Thanks to everybody who stopped by and visited our booth at the OCE Discovery Conference 2011.
• Bio.Diaspora Recognized as a 2011 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovative GIS Application.

Media

Bio.Diaspora has been covered in a variety of international media sources including:

• The Guardian
• The Washington Post
• Discovery Health
• BBC
• TIME
• National Public Radio
• The Globe and Mail - Feb 25, 2010
• The Toronto Star - April 1, 2010
• CTV News - June 29, 2009
• Canada AM
• ABC News
• ESRI Canada - Fall 2010
• CBC News - September 30, 2009

Academic

Additionally, Bio.Diaspora has been published in high impact journals such as:

• New England Journal of Medicine
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Journal of Travel Medicine