WEBINAR

Strategies for COVID-19 Presence Tracing

Tuesday, September 28, 2021
12 PM PST / 9 PM CEST

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Overview

Contact tracing in many countries initially focused on those in close proximity to someone infectious for COVID-19, and Bluetooth-based protocols for automated exposure notification followed suit. But because COVID-19 is also spread via aerosols, contacts at the other side of a room are also at substantial risk of infection, especially in poorly ventilated venues and with more infectious strains. QR code scans or Bluetooth beacons can be used to match those who were present at the same venue at the same time as an infectious person. This panel will explore different designs for presence tracing protocols, and the rationales behind them.

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Co-hosted with The Big Data Institute at
The University of Oxford

Meet the Speakers

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Merrin MacLeod

Merrin MacLeod is a project lead for the exposure notification app used by New Zealand.

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Vincent Roca

After a PhD from Grenoble INP in 1996, Vincent Roca joined the University Paris 6 as Associate Professor in 1997, and Inria as a researcher in 2000.... Read more

Justus Benzler

Justus Benzler

Justus is a medical epidemiologist at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin, Germany. After several years of clinical practice in obstetrics... Read more

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Edouard Bugnion

Edouard Bugnion joined EPFL in 2012, where his focus is on datacenter systems. His areas of interest include operating systems, datacenter... Read more

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James Petrie

James Petrie designed the decentralized Bluetooth protocol initially used by Covid Watch (which he co-founded), and contributed to the design... Read more

 

Coordinating Committee Co-Chairs

Joanna Masel, PhD

Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at The University of Arizona

Luca Ferretti, PhD

Senior Researcher in Statistical Genetics and Pathogen DynamicsBig Data Institute, The University of Oxford

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RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS (University of Arizona, College of Medicine – Phoenix) Pamela Garcia-Filion

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