She specializes in harnessing information from participatory tools, such as point-of-care diagnostics, mobile phones, and other Internet-enabled sensors and media. Chunara develops statistical methodology for using these observational data sources in population-level disease surveillance. She was previously an instructor at Harvard Medical School working on the Children's Hospital Informatics Program and HealthMap. Chunara holds a PhD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Sciences and Technology and an ScM from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. Chunara has clinical experiences in Kenya, Pakistan, and the U.S., and was selected as an MIT Technology Review Top 35 under 35 Innovator in 2014.