This article (by Palmer et al., 2017) is focused on the usefulness of Citizen science in health. Traditional surveillance tools are limited by jurisdictional boundaries and cost constraints. The article shows how a scalable Citizen science system can solve this problem by combining citizen scientists’ observations with expert validation and correcting for sampling effort. The system described in this article provides accurate early warning information about the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) invasion in Spain collected using Citizen science, providing data well beyond those available from traditional methods, and vital for public health services.
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Target groups: RPOs, CSOs