Metabiota is a health big data tracking company providing data, analytics, advice, and training to help governments prepare for global health threats and mitigate their impacts.
In an effort to inform the public of the health risks breaking out all over the world (or just to scare the bejeezus out of already paranoid people), the startup Metabiota has released a free-to-use epidemic tracker for all of the outbreaks monitored publicly around the world. The San Francisco-bas…
The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a parametric sovereign disaster risk insurer for African nations, has begun a pilot with the help of San Francisco based Metabiota to roll-out parametric insurance cover against disease outbreaks and epidemics. The new parametric outbreak & epidemic insurance product has been coming for some time, as ARC looks to expand its remit to cover new risks which will in turn increase the diversification within and efficiency of its sovereign risk pool. Metabiota is a company focused on risk analytics for epidemics and it has just begun the risk modelling work for the new ARC outbreak and epidemic insurance product. The goal is to help African Nations to better plan for and mitigate the risk of infectious disease outbreaks within their countries, providing an insurance product that will pay out rapidly should an outbreak show signs of developing, helped by the use of parametric triggers and backed by global reinsurance capacity. The pilot phase of the
