Tracking the spread of pandemic

A new free app has been launched for smartphones, BBC Pandemic, created in order to gather information to better understand how an infectious disease such as the flu can spread throughout the country using information about how individuals travel and interact with each other. The research conducted could well prove central in preparing for the next pandemic outbreak.

Professor Julia Gog, Queens’ Director of Studies in Mathematics and a specialist in mathematical biology, is the lead scientist for the BBC initiative launching today. Research has also been undertaken by Stephen Kissler, who is about to join Queens’ as a Research Fellow.

In order for the research to be as effective as possible, information will need to be gathered from people of all ages, in all areas of the country.

More information can be found at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y0p1

To take part, please download the free app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bbc-pandemic/id1274960535?mt=8  or

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.threesixtyproduction.pandemic&hl=en_GB