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The COVID-19 crisis has emphasized the importance of the free flow of information and data-driven applications in the management of public health crises. This chapter examines the potential benefits, concerns, and solutions related to sustainable and secure access to public health data. We study some of the data-driven solutions in action worldwide and present them as replicable use cases. We also examine why a large volume of data from public and private sources never reaches the desks of decision-makers and suggest technical and policy solutions to eliminate these sources of ‘data friction’.
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Patil, R., Gopal, I. (2022). The Importance of Data Sharing in Managing Public Health Crises. In: Shaw, R., Gurtoo, A. (eds) Global Pandemic and Human Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5074-1_21
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