Press inquiries

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What others have been saying

• Digital Sleuthing and Engagement to Battle Foodborne Illness in Chicago

  The Big Cities Health Inventory 2015: The Health of the Urban USA, November 18, 2015

• Can Twitter and Yelp really help spot a salmonella outbreak?

  The Washington Post, August 12, 2015

• Preventing Foodborne Illness in Chicago

  California Health Care Foundation, January 21, 2015

• Food Safety in Numbers

  Harvard Political Review, January 6, 2015

• How Twitter and Your Lunch Can Solve Problems

  U.S. News & World Report, October 20, 2014

• Tweets Identify Food Poisoning Outbreaks

  Scientific American, August 20, 2014

• Twitter Bot Helps Chicago Officials Find Dirty Restaurants

  Popular Science, August 19, 2014

• Health Department Use of Social Media to Identify Foodborne Illness — Chicago, Illinois, 2013–2014

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, August 15, 2014

• Agencies Use Social Media to Track Foodborne Illness

  The Journal of the American Medical Association, June 25, 2014

• One Year After Launch, Foodborne Chicago Continues to Enhance Food Safety

  City of Chicago, April 9, 2014

• Foodborne Chicago Is Harvesting Twitter Data for Public Health

  StateTech, January 6, 2014

• Twitter May One Day Save Your Life

  Data-Smart City Solutions, December 23, 2013

• Food poisoning? In Chicago, there's an app for that!

  The Colorado Health Foundation, December 1, 2013

• Food-poisoning tweets get city follow-up

  Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2013

• See All Press Here

  Since, March 19, 2013

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