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Perspective CanMobilePhoneDataImproveEmergencyResponseto NaturalDisasters? PeterW.Gething1*,AndrewJ.Tatem2,3,4 1SpatialEcologyandEpidemiologyGroup,DepartmentofZoology,UniversityofOxford,Oxford,UnitedKingdom,2EmergingPathogensInstitute,UniversityofFlorida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, 3Departmentof Geography,University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, 4Fogarty International Center,NationalInstitutesofHealth,Bethesda,Maryland,UnitedStatesofAmerica Disaster management requires accurate information and must link data collection and analysis to an immediate decision- making process. Existing approaches to assessing population movements in the immediate aftermath of disasters, such as transport surveys and manual registration ofindividualsatemergency-reliefhubs,are often inadequate: while important for record-keeping purposes, both are slow and may exclude those groups who are unreachable and most vulnerable. Proxy analysis via aerial or even satellite recon- naissancehasapotentiallyusefulrole,but can provide only a coarse geographical pictureofmovingpopulations.Inpractice, the most readily available sources of informationarefromeye-witnessormedia reports. Althoughtimely,such reportsare not accumulated systematically and can constituteabiasedrepresentationofevents. disaster has not been explored. In a new study published by Bengtsson and col- leaguesinPLoSMedicinethisweek[5],the authors present an analysis of the efforts undertaken to use mobile phone data to estimate the major population displace- mentthatfollowedthecatastrophicHaitian earthquakeof12January2010. LinkedResearchArticle This Perspective discusses the fol- lowingnewstudypublishedinPLoS Medicine: Bengtsson L, Lu X, Thorson A, Garfield R, von Schreeb J (2011) Improved Response to Disasters andOutbreaksbyTrackingPopula- tionMovementswithMobilePhone Network Data: A Post-Earthquake GeospatialStudyinHaiti.PLoSMed 8(8): e1001083.doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.1001083