Rate My Professor Craig Dalton

Dalton founded FluTracking.net in 2006, establishing the world's largest crowd-sourced public health surveillance system. By June 2025, it had collected over 33 million weekly surveys from more than 320,000 participants to track influenza-like illness, COVID-19, RSV, bushfire smoke impacts, thunderstorm asthma, and heat-related illness across Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hong Kong, and Argentina. FluTracking received Research Australia's Data Innovation Award in 2018. A publication on community COVID-19 control by Dalton and colleagues was cited by Dr. Anthony Fauci during a White House briefing, influencing US guidelines. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, including 'Using after-action reviews of outbreaks to enhance public health responses: lessons for COVID-19' (Medical Journal of Australia, 2022), 'The Pandemic REspiratory Virus Epidemiological SurveillaNce Trial - A self-swab surveillance system for respiratory viruses nested within FluTracking' (Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2025), 'Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Australian educational settings' (The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2020), and 'Insights From Flutracking: Thirteen Tips to Growing a Web-Based Participatory Surveillance System' (JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2017). Dalton wrote the ebook 'How NOT to Piss Off a Community' on engaging communities in high-outrage, low-trust settings. His research interests include applied public health practice, influenza surveillance, foodborne disease epidemiology, environmental health impact assessment, risk communication, and contemplative practices in public health.