Fighting disease with a smartwatch? That’s genius.

Fighting disease with a smartwatch? That’s genius.

Biomedical Engineer Jessilyn Dunn is standing against the threat of disease with the powers of wearable technology.

By Leslie Baker

In the U.S., an average of nearly 70,000 children under the age of 5 are hospitalized with RSV every year, and nearly 7 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide. Jessilyn Dunn’s lab uses Al and machine learning to analyze data collected by devices such as smartwatches to ultimately predict and prevent outbreaks of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu as well as conditions such as adult-onset diabetes.