About Us
The MIT Program for Trusted Pandemic Technologies
The mission of the MIT Program for Trusted Pandemic Technologies is to help public health professionals rapidly overcome challenging barriers they encounter as they engage citizens as active participants in digital solutions for fighting COVID-19 and future pandemics.
The first focus of the program is to work with public health officials as they design and deploy exposure notification and digital contact tracing for COVID-19. The second focus is to create citizen centric solutions for digital management of testing, vaccines and health verification. Subsequent initiatives under consideration include surveillance/monitoring and predictive modeling so that we as a society are much better prepared for future pandemics.
Our Founding Principles
The founding belief of the program is that when it comes to engaging citizens in a quest for the common good, especially public health, trust at all levels and among all participants is mandatory for success. The program builds on privacy preserving systems for smartphone data, analytics and machine learning.
The biggest challenges in designing digital solutions which engage citizens are human and societal as well as technologic. The program therefore functions as a tight collaboration among experts from a variety of disciplines. These include information science, public health, biotechnology, behavioral economics and public policy.
To accomplish its mission the program will function as a totally open and neutral venue that partners with government, academia and industry to advance basic knowledge as well as accelerate the practical and application of that knowledge to solutions that save lives and reduce human suffering.
Want to join the fight?
Attend events from the MIT Program for Trusted Pandemic Technologies as listed in the Calendar section. In addition, you can join our partner PathCheck Foundation's' global community of volunteers working to digitally fight the pandemic.
Events Calendar
MIT Program events, partner events and appearances are as follows.
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MIT Africa Digital Pandemic Response
Panelists for this event include a select group of experts in digital heath and digital innovation in Africa.
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MIT Hacking Medicine
An online health hackathon to meet, ideate, and hack with hundreds of entrepreneurs, designers, and health care professionals
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Virtual Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Contact Tracing
In this workshop, we will discuss recent developments in digital contact tracing, with a focus on privacy aspects.
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MIT Africa Digital Pandemic Response
Panelists for this event include a select group of experts in digital heath and digital innovation in Africa.
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The Efficacy of Exposure Notification Technology
Assembly of public health leaders from across the country to hear directly from leaders in the EU that have made progress on digital contact tracing.
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US Congressional Hearing
Virtual Congress Hearing by the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. Ramesh Raskar's testimony