A New Era of Epidemiology: Digital Epidemiology for Investigating the COVID-19 Outbreak in China

Zonglin He   ^{1, 2 *} , MBBS ;   Casper J P Zhang   ^{3 *} , MPH, PhD ;   Jian Huang   ^{4 *} , PhD, MPH ;   Jingyan Zhai   ¹ , MBBS ;   Shuang Zhou   ¹ , BNurs ;   Joyce Wai-Ting Chiu   ² , MSc, BSc, MBBS ;   Jie Sheng   ⁵ , BA ;   Winghei Tsang   ¹ , MBBS ;   Babatunde O Akinwunmi   ^{6, 7} , MD, PhD, MMSc ;   Wai-Kit Ming   ¹ , MD, MPH, PhD, MMSc, EMBA

¹ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

² Faculty of Medicine, International School, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

³ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁴ MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, St Mary’s Campus, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

⁵ College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

⁶ Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Unit, Asthma Research Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally