Utilizing Nontraditional Data Sources for Near Real-Time Estimation of Transmission Dynamics During the 2015-2016 Colombian Zika Virus Disease Outbreak

Maimuna S Majumder   ^{1, 2} , MPH ;   Mauricio Santillana   ^{1, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Sumiko R Mekaru   ^{1, 5} , PhD ;   Denise P McGinnis   ¹ , ScD ;   Kamran Khan   ^{6, 7} , MD ;   John S Brownstein   ^{1, 4} , PhD

¹ Computational Epidemiology Group, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

² Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States

³ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Epidemico, Inc., Boston, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada