Announcements
- Dr. Kamran Khan quoted in Globe and Mail article about novel coronavirus - May 18, 2013
- CBC News story about BWHO article on screening of airline travellers during epidemics - April 11, 2013
- Dr. Kamran Khan interviewed in Global News video about BWHO study of screening of airline travellers - April 10, 2013
- BWHO study of screening of airline travellers during epidemics featured in blog post in the Toronto Star - April 10, 2013
- Canadian Press article on recently published study of screening of airline travellers during epidemics - April 10, 2013
- Dr. Kamran Khan interviewed in Toronto Star article about H7N9 bird flu and risk to Canada - April 8, 2013
- CMAJ news article on new coronavirus features Dr. Kamran Khan - April 4, 2013
- Canadian Press article on new coronavirus and superspreaders quotes Dr. Kamran Khan - March 25, 2013
- Dr. Kamran Khan interviewed for CBC article about new coronavirus - February 25, 2013
- Dr. Kamran Khan and Bio.Diaspora highlighted in Maclean's article about Kumbh Mela and disease risk - February 11, 2013
- Bio.Diaspora featured in Popular Science website article "How to Stop a Pandemic" - September 2012
- Interview with Dr. Kamran Khan in the MaRS Commons Magazine: "The Data Visualizers" - October 2012
- Bio.Diaspora profiled by Al Jazeera: "Mapping Pandemics" (video link) - July 2012
- Preparing for the London 2012 Olympic Games: "Olympic Games draws in huge crowds as well as germs" - July 23, 2012
- Bio.Diaspora featured in Nature: "Science at the Olympics" - July 18, 2012
- Dr. Khan featured in Science Journal: "Do Sports Events Give Microbes a Chance to Score?" - June 8, 2012
- Reuters highlights Bio.Diaspora in their report: Potential Olympic disease crisis has health officials on alert - April 5, 2012
- Bio.Diaspora featured on Visualising Data: "Bio.Diaspora: Visualising interactions between populations and travel" - February 2, 2012
- 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
- The Toronto Star - September 8, 2011
- The Globe and Mail - September 8, 2011
- Metro - September 9, 2011
- CTV News - September 12, 2011
- CityNews Toronto - September 12, 2011
- Global News - September 12, 2011
- 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.
Lancet Infectious Diseases - "Infectious disease surveillance and modelling across geographic frontiers and scientific specialties"
Media Coverage
Print
Video
Radio
Video
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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: