Linus Bengtsson
MD Linus Bengtsson
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Linus Bengtsson is an MD and has invented a new method for monitoring population displacement during disasters and infectious disease outbreaks. The method is based on analyzes of anonymous data from mobile phone operators. Together with colleagues and in collaboration with Haitis largest mobile phone network provider, Digicel, he implemented the system in Haiti following the devastating Haiti earthquake in 2010.
Using the method the research team provided the United Nations and other relief agencies with rapid information on the locations of affected people. The study has been published in PLoS Medicine.
He is now leading the work of setting up a non-profit organization to rapidly provide these analyzes for free to relief organizations responding to disasters.
Scientific article: www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001083
Additional information: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/health/06global.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=bengtsson&st=cse http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14761144 http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=126488&d=2637&l=en&newsdep=2637
Clinically Linus Bengtsson is specializing in public health and he has a two-year background in philosophy. His PhD project is set in Vietnam and focuses on development of an Internet-based method (webRDS) for representative sampling of hidden population groups at risk of HIV. The method is implemented among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam, a hidden and highly stigmatized group. He also uses the method to understand how social and sexual networks among MSM in Vietnam impact on HIV transmission dynamics. Project title: Vulnerability among the invisible. Men who have sex with men in Vietnam: studies on social and sexual networks.
Supervisors: Anna Thorson, Peter Allebeck and Fredrik Liljeros.
