Roni F. Zeiger was the Chief Health Strategist (2006–2012) at Google where he developed Google Health and Google Flu Trends. He later co-founded a startup called Smart Patients.
30 Apr-1 May 2019 FB held their F8 Conference. They announced new Health Support groups- members can post questions and share information without their name appearing on a post.
21 May 2019 Facebook launches three new disease mapping tools.
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high-resolution population density map with demographic estimates
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movement map
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network coverage map
Aggregated Facebook data will be used in both the movement maps and network coverage maps. Meanwhile the population density maps are made up of census data and satellite images.
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/facebook-launches-three-new-disease-mapping-tools
23 May 2019 Zeiger announced that he left Smart Patients to join FB as their new Head of Health Strategy http://ronizeiger.com/an-opportunity-i-cant-resist
6 Apr 2020 FB "Data for Good: New Tools to Help Health Researchers Track and Combat COVID-19" https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/data-for-good
24-26 Apr 2020 FB edited their dataforgood.fb.com homepage to be COVID focused (was previously humanitarian)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200424184232/https://dataforgood.fb.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20200426190014/https://dataforgood.fb.com