A call for citizen science in pandemic preparedness and response: beyond data collection

• Rebecca Katz,
• Anurag Agrawal,
• Gershim Asiki,
• Andrea Sylvia Winkler,
• Malebona Precious Matsoso,
• Rene English,
• Jeffrey Victor Lazarus,
• Yi-Roe Tan,
• Peiling Yap,
• Olivia Keiser,
• Ayman El-Mohandes,
• Marc Choisy,
• Ashish Joshi,
• Sara L M Davis,
• Annalena Huber,
• Bruce Mellado,
• Caroline Antonia Mubaira,
• Felipe C Canlas,
• Harjyot Khosa,
• Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza,
• Patrick Okwen,
• Serge Stinckwich,
• Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo,
• Tariro Kutadza,
• Tavpritesh Sethi,
• Thuso Mathaha,
• Vinh Kim Nguyen,
• Amandeep Gill

Affiliations

Rebecca Katz

Center for Global Health Science & Security, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Anurag Agrawal

Gastroenterology, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster, UK

Gershim Asiki

African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Andrea Sylvia Winkler

Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Malebona Precious Matsoso

director of health regulatory science platform

Rene English

Global Health, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Jeffrey Victor Lazarus

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Yi-Roe Tan

National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore

Peiling Yap

Infectious Disease Research and Training Office, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore

Olivia Keiser

GRAPH Network, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Ayman El-Mohandes

City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, New York, New York, USA

Marc Choisy

8 Institute of Research and Development, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Ashish Joshi

CUNY School of Public Health, City University of New York, NY, USA

Sara L M Davis

Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Annalena Huber

Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munchen, Germany

Bruce Mellado

School of Physics and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Caroline Antonia Mubaira

Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+), Harare, Zimbabwe

Felipe C Canlas

Wireless Access for Health, Tarlac, Philippines

Harjyot Khosa

International Planned Parenthood Federation, New Delhi, India

Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza

Institute of Informatics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Patrick Okwen

Effective Basic Services (eBASE), Bamenda, Cameroon

Serge Stinckwich

United Nations University Institute in Macau, Macau SAR, China

Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo

African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Tariro Kutadza

Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV (ZNNP+), Harare, Zimbabwe

Tavpritesh Sethi

Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Thuso Mathaha

School of Physics and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Vinh Kim Nguyen

Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Amandeep Gill

International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR), Geneva, Switzerland