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Slide 1: RIFF (a.k.a. EVOLVE) PHIN Conference 2009 Hyatt Regency, Downtown Atlanta Aug.30-Sept.3, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Photo credit: IRMA (Integrated Risk Management for Africa) Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases, and Disasters Nicolás di Tada Director of Platform
Slide 2:  Event-based adhoc unstructured reports issued by formal or informal sources Indicator-based (number of cases, rates, proportion of strains…) 
Slide 3:  Health surveillance is a multi-field problem  Humans  Animal  Environment  Organisms  Chemichals
Slide 5:    Hybrid human and machine-learning Collaborative and cross-disciplinary Free, Open Source, modular http://riff.instedd.org
Slide 6: Best Poster Award for Improving Public Health Investigation and Response at the Seventh Annual ISDS Conference, 2008 http://kasshout.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-poster-award-for-improving-public.html
Slide 7: Saved filters with subscri ptions Extracted articles (full text) Stars, comments, flags, location Tags (automatic classification + humans) Tag Cloud Related Items
Slide 8: Locations Heatmap
Slide 11: Data source: A(H1N1) Evolve Collaborative Workspace http://riff.instedd.org/space/SwineFlu Yin Myo Aye, MD: ProMED MBDS Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS: InSTEDD
Slide 12: Tracking the recent Avian Influenza Outbreak in Egypt (reports started to appear late January 2009). Data source: Africa Evolve Collaborative Workspace http://riff.instedd.org/space/AfricaAlerts
Slide 13:  Current classifications includes:  7 syndromes  10 transmission modes  > 100 infectious diseases  > 180 micro-organisms  > 140 symptoms  > 50 chemicals
Slide 14:         480 Registered users 394 collaboration spaces 694 registered input streams of information 900.000 articles analyzed 443.151 geocoded positions 700 terms ‘trained’ on the geocoder by human users 804 comments on items left by people 12.000+ tags added by human users
Slide 15: In Progress  Ontologies (SNOMED, BioCaster, ICD)  Event reporting, analysis and public announcements (via Reuters) Planned  API for external extensions and interactions  Full support of structured data  Automatic field data collection through forms  Anomaly detections
Slide 18: http://riff.instedd.org InSTEDD 400 Hamilton Avenue, Suite 120 Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA +1.650.353.4440 +1.877.650.4440 (toll-free in the US) info@instedd.org Nicolas di Tada nditada@instedd.org Cambodia, Photo taken by Taha Kass-Hout, October 2008 “this pic says it all- our kids are all the same- they deserve the same”, Comment by Robert Gregg on Facebook, October 2008