Risk Assessment and Management Solutions for Arthropod-borne and Infectious Diseases
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RAMS-AID Research - Software solutions for vector-borne diseases

PROJECT OVERVIEW


Project Goals and Products

The overarching goal of the project is to develop novel software solutions for surveillance and control of vectors and vector-borne diseases. In large part, this was made possible through funding from the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (http://www.ivcc.com/), which aims to improve health by enabling partnerships for the accelerated development and delivery of new products and tools that increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the control of insects which transmit disease agents.

We describe here four different novel software solutions for surveillance and control of vectors and vector-borne diseases:

  • A multi-disease data management system for dengue and malaria (funded by the IVCC)
  • A dengue case data application for frontline health clinics (funded by the IVCC)
  • An application to calculate dose and time response curves in insecticide resistance bioassays (funded by the IVCC)
  • A cell-phone based application for field capture of mosquito surveillance data (funded by the National Institutes of Health)