MAPPING@Brown
Your social mixing data could help improve pandemic decision-making with MAPPING@Brown
Click the link below to open the study eligibility screener on Qualtrics.
Eligible participants will automatically be advanced to the study consent form.
Once you’ve consented to participate, you will be asked to complete the brief sociodemographic questionnaire. After this you will find instructions to download and activate the MAPPS app.
Enrollment for the Fall 2023 MAPPING@Brown research study is now open!
Current involvement opportunities, including volunteering and study enrollment, can be found on our Get Involved page.
Because infectious pathogens spread from person to person, our social interactions shape disease transmission patterns.
MAPPING@Brown is a research project exploring the suitability of a smartphone app for studying these interactions. The MAPPS app was designed with data privacy in mind, and it only functions within 121 S Main St. The app will record received signals from Bluetooth beacons and wifi access points at the Brown School of Public Health.
Between November 6th and November 19th, MAPPING@Brown will attempt to map the social network within the School of Public Health (SPH). We will be asking everyone who interacts with SPH to voluntarily download the app and be part of the study. The data and insights gleaned will be used to conduct realistic infectious disease simulations.
MAPPING@Brown is a research exercise conducted by the Mobility Analysis for Pandemic Prevention Strategies (MAPPS) team led by Dr. Mark Lurie (Principal Investigator). The study has been approved by the Brown University Institutional Review Board (Protocol #00000094).
What is MAPPING@Brown?
If awarded a center grant through NSF’s Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) Phase II, MAPPS will conduct a campus-wide version of MAPPING@Brown in the coming years. During PIPP Phase II, MAPPS plans to experiment with integrating different modes of mobility, social mixing, and biometric data collection. On a 5-10 year horizon we hope to see our data collection, storage, and modeling tools in use in a variety of congregate settings beyond Brown (e.g., long-term care facilities, university campuses, and cruise ships).
Follow the links below to learn more about each thrust’s contributions to MAPPING@Brown during PIPP Phase I.
