TY - JOUR T1 - Digital epidemiology and global health security; an interdisciplinary conversation AU - Eckmanns, Tim AU - Füller, Henning AU - Roberts, Stephen L. AB - Contemporary infectious disease surveillance systems aim to employ the speed and scope of big data in an attempt to provide global health security. Both shifts - the perception of health problems through the framework of global health security and the corresponding technological approaches – imply epistemological changes, methodological ambivalences as well as manifold societal effects. Bringing current findings from social sciences and public health praxis into a dialogue, this conversation style contribution points out several broader implications of changing disease surveillance. The conversation covers epidemiological issues such as the shift from expert knowledge to algorithmic knowledge, the securitization of global health, and the construction of new kinds of threats. Those developments are detailed and discussed in their impacts for health provision in a broader sense. KW - Big data KW - Algorithms KW - Infectious disease KW - Global health KW - Security KW - 610 Medizin und Gesundheit PY - 2019 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut JO - BMC Sciences, Society and Policy VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 13 DO - 10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8 ER -