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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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The BEACON team during a workshop in March. BEACON is an open-source infectious disease surveillance platform created by Boston University’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases in partnership with the Hariri Institute for Computing and Data Sciences at BU and HealthMap at Boston Children’s Hospital. COURTESY OF CASSANDRA KENNEDY

A new BEACON for global health set to launch in Boston

Samantha Genzer April 8, 2025

As diseases spread across borders with increasing speed, a team of scientists, engineers and public health experts is preparing to launch a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform on...

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