Guinea worm disease is on the verge of eradication — not because of a vaccine or drug, but because of an information system. A look at how data collection and surveillance became the medicine itself.
In this video, I look at how Guinea worm disease — once affecting millions — is on the verge of total eradication, and why the key tool wasn’t a vaccine or a drug. It was an information system.
Data collection, case surveillance, and real-time reporting became the intervention itself. This is what it looks like when data IS the medicine.
A look at how a decades-old epidemiological tool for syphilis contact tracing compares to a modern algorithmic approach — and what the gap reveals about how health systems adopt new methods.
Jun 15, 2026Fewer than 700 people worldwide hold the designation of Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association. On what the recognition means — not as a personal milestone, but as a statement about the work.
May 25, 2026Closing out UC Berkeley's Emerging Technologies for Public Health course left me with one clear thought: the students already get it, and there is a seismic shift towards citizen science.
May 2, 2026