Transforming a Pandemic Tool Into a Public Health Asset: Modified Delphi Study
Mohsen Malekinejad, Cesar Arturo Mendez-Lizarraga, Nicole Skehan, Alyssa Bercasio, Rakhee Palekar, William B Lober · 2026
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Mohsen Malekinejad and co-authors ask what should become of the exposure notification apps built for COVID-19. More than one hundred countries used these phone systems to warn people, quietly and at scale, that they had been near an infected person. The team gathered twenty-two experts from six countries, polled them in a structured consensus process, and followed up with group discussions.
The experts agreed on upgrades: letting users report a home test result themselves, adding public health guidance inside the app, and warning about venues tied to big spread events. They also backed wider uses, such as covering other airborne diseases and feeding the data into outbreak tracking and forecasting. The authors argue these pandemic tools could become standing public health assets for the next emergency, if protocols are revised now.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohsen Malekinejad, Cesar Arturo Mendez-Lizarraga, Nicole Skehan, Alyssa Bercasio, Rakhee Palekar, William B Lober |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |