Today we’re joined by Kamran Khan, founder & CEO of BlueDot, and professor of medicine and public health at the University of Toronto. BlueDot, a digital health company with a focus on surveilling global infectious disease outbreaks, has been the recipient of a lot of attention for being the first to publicly warn about the coronavirus that started in Wuhan. How did the company’s system of algorithms and data processing techniques help flag the potential dangers of the disease? In this interview, Kamran talks us through how the technology works, its limits, and the motivation behind the work.  Check out our new and improved show notes article at twimlai.com/talk/350.