Current Challenges on Public Health and Possible Solutions Supported by Earth Observation and Data Analytics

Debate on possible solution brought by EO and Data Analytics to the Public Health.

With the advent of Earth Observation systems and data analytics there is a strong commitment towards making use of these valuable resources in more and more socio-economic domains. One of these is public health and many organizations around the world are making efforts to identify the current main challenges related to Global Health and Earth Observation at large with a clear aim to Increase awareness among institutional and private sector representatives, about the EO applications program and knowledge gaps in the health domain.

Providing users and stakeholders with Earth Observation data resources and capabilities becomes an immediate goal and there are actions to strengthen international collaboration in the resilience domain, by addressing various health related environmental monitoring aspects with: Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, the effects of Climate Change and Pollution on Human Health, Vector Borne Diseases, Waterborne Infectious Diseases.

The workshop discussed these topics with scientists, policy makers and industry from Romania i.e. the most pressing needs and information requirements, considering that there is a global effort to Initiate a dialogue between stakeholders on EO applied research for health, identifying the most pressing challenges and potential synergies among current and future activities. The workshop was organised with the support of the DTECLIMATE Consortium, a project developed under the Romanian Recovery and Resilience Programme

For more information, please contact Ion Nedelcu rosa-hq [at] rosa.ro.