1756: The Role of Tech and Geospatial Analytics in Pandemic Response

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the importance of timely, detailed, and comprehensive data to the forefront. To help curb or prevent the next pandemic, many leading institutions are actively discussing how global data-sharing could be established and governed to detect the risk of future pandemics and disease outbreaks more quickly. One company at the forefront of this new, collaborative approach is HSR.health. The health tech firm has successfully adapted its ‘Health Risk Index’ to improve pandemic emergency response efforts with hyper-focused risk indices that nations and public health agencies have adopted worldwide. Ajay Gupta, CEO of HSR.health, reveals the many benefits of health-focused geospatial analytics in aiding pandemic response and mitigating future risk.