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Bringing Intelligence, Navigation, and Data for Emergency Response (BINDER)

Bringing Intelligence, Navigation, and Data for Emergency Response (BINDER)

BINDER ( Bringing Intelligence, Navigation, and Data for Emergency Response) is an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled public health assistant for short-staffed state and local public health officers and emergency managers to support decision-making during health crises.

Project Highlights

BINDER uses AI to equip state and local public health and healthcare decision-makers (eg, health officers, emergency managers, etc.) with rapid, easily accessible, synthesized, and actionable information to support interventions during health crises. Currently, this information lives in a multitude of playbooks, toolkits, communications files, and after-action reports, but is not available in a format for rapid digestion and decision-making, nor is it customizable to support locally relevant responses. At a time of shrinking workforce, budgets, and infrastructure, having information distilled into its most action-oriented form during a crisis has never been more important. Additionally, aggregation across public health and healthcare preparedness information, findings, and guidance will help better facilitate collaboration and de-siloing of the current operations between the fields.

Our Project Team

BINDER Project Team

  • Senior Adviser Beth Cameron smiles at camera, while posing in front of an office building.

    Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron, Ph.D.

    Senior Adviser to the Brown Pandemic Center, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health
  • Lead Research Scientist Diane Meyer smiles at camera while posing outdoors.

    Diane Meyer Ph.D.

    Lead Research Scientist
  • Research Assistant Alice Im smiles at camera while in a 3/4 pose while standing outside.

    Alice Im

    Research Assistant
  • Professor Alyssa Bilinski smiles at camera while standing outdoors.

    Alyssa Bilinski, Ph.D.

    Peterson Family Assistant Professor of Health Policy, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice and Biostatistics at the Brown University School of Public Health

Our Partners

  • Common Health Coalition
  • CDC Foundation
  • Ariadne Labs
  • Yale University

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Read More about the Binder Project

  • Keeping Businesses Open and Safe During Health Emergencies: Toward Better Platforms and Tailored Playbooks for the Future
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