Linus Bengtsson
MD, PhD Linus Bengtsson
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Department of Public Health Sciences
Karolinska Institute
Tomtebodavägen 18A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
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Department of Public Health Sciences
Linus Bengtsson is a medical doctor focusing on public health applications of information technology. He has invented a new method for monitoring population displacement during disasters and infectious disease outbreaks, based on analyzes of anonymous data from mobile phone operators. Linus Bengtsson, with colleagues, implemented the method after the Haiti earthquake and during the Haiti cholera outbreak in 2010.
Linus Bengtsson is a co-founder and director of the the non-profit foundation Flowminder. The foundations aim is support analysis of mobile phone operator data and to provide estimates of population movements to relief agencies during disasters and infectious disease outbreaks.
Linus Bengtsson has work experience form Brazil, Burkina Faso, Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Haiti, Pakistan and Vietnam, and has previously worked as clinical epidemiologist for the Gapminder Foundation.
For his PhD thesis Linus Bengtsson developed a new method for representative online sampling of hidden groups at risk of HIV. He implemented the method among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam to understand how social and sexual networks among MSM in Vietnam impact on HIV transmission dynamics. The webRDS sampling system has so far been used by researchers in Thailand, the Netherlands, Sweden and Vietnam.
Key research papers:
(2011) Improved response to disasters and outbreaks by tracking population movements with mobile phone network data: a post-earthquake geospatial study in Haiti
(2012) Predictability of population displacement after the 2010 Haiti earthquake
(2012) Implementation of Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Vietnam.
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