This book provides pertinent insights from COVID-19 researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) which are highlighted in the NSF-funded COVID Information Commons (CIC). The CIC is a comprehensive portal with 14,000 coronavirus research grants and resources which have been leveraged by a collaborative community of over 10,000 individual researchers, professionals and students who share knowledge and insights to mitigate the broad impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research insights range from scientific to societal impacts of the coronavirus across the domains of biology, public health, human behavior, education and public mobility. The 95 authors across the 24 chapters in this book share learnings from their coronavirus research to inform future pandemic prevention and mitigation opportunities globally. Healthcare leaders, government policy makers, researchers, educators, students, and citizens will find this book useful and inspirational for years to come.
Florence D. Hudson is Executive Director and Principal Investigator for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and the COVID Information Commons, which are funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (DOT FHWA), and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). She is also Founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology consulting firm. She Chairs the award-winning Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Working Group on Clinical Internet of Things Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS (Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security) and is Vice Chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Standards Committee. She is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Internet2 Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Special Advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and Grumman Aerospace Corporation. She is a globally renowned speaker and lecturer for data science, big data and analytics, research collaboration, connected healthcare, cybersecurity, energy and the environment, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Her presentations have included a TEDxTalk on Sustainability on a Smarter Planet, NASA Chief Innovation Officer summit presentations, keynotes at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, as well as hundreds of presentations in dozens of countries around the world hosted by IEEE, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, NSF, NIST, NASA, the Department of Energy and many colleges and universities. She is Editor in Chief for two Springer books on Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT and Connected Healthcare focusing on trust, identity, privacy, protection, safety and security. She is also a published author with Elsevier, Wiley and College Publications. She is an experienced Board Director (NASDAQ: IEC) and Trustee, currently serving on multiple academic and nonprofit Boards. She earned her Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree from Princeton University, and executive education certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia University.
