Adjunct Associate Professor
Email: ayers.john.w@gmail.com
Biography
John is an Adjunct Associate Professor at San Diego State University and affiliate with the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health. He is a computational epidemiologist working at the intersection of Internet technologies and public health to generate rapid, actionable surveillance. Together with numerous collaborators, including SDSU students and alum, he has developed several leading public health surveillance platforms, such as Tobacco Watcher, which provides real-time media monitoring in 11 languages, for more than 147 countries, from more than 300,000 sources including all links shared on Bing, Google or Twitter. His work spans outcomes, methods, and topics appearing in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. He is a ’08 SDSU alum, training under Melbourne F. Hovell and C. Richard Hofstetter. For more about his work visit www.johnwayers.com
