About
Diaphana, LLC
Section titled “Diaphana, LLC”Diaphana, LLC maintains the public 2026 BDBV outbreak dashboard and this companion documentation site. The company focuses on practical public-health information tools: making outbreak evidence easier to inspect, compare across sources, and use without replacing official WHO or national ministry reporting.
Diaphana publishes open project work under the diaphana-io GitHub organization. For how visitor data is handled on these sites, see the Privacy Policy.
Founder
Section titled “Founder”Matt Sakamaki, MD, MPH
Section titled “Matt Sakamaki, MD, MPH”Matt Sakamaki is Founder of Diaphana, LLC. He is a physician from Japan and holds a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with focus areas in epidemiology, social epidemiology, and behavioral sciences.
He trained at the School of Medicine, Niigata University (2016–2023), then worked as a junior resident and staff physician in nephrology at Kashiwazaki General Medical Center (JA Niigata Koseiren, 2023–2025), providing community-based care in a rural, super-aging setting. There he saw that long-standing health promotion activities often lacked quantitative evaluation, and that many drivers of local health disparities sit outside routine clinical and administrative data. That experience led him to public health: closing the gap between social-determinants research and practical tools clinicians and communities can use.
His interests include evidence-based community interventions, how social norms and health attitudes form, and how vaccination and other preventive behaviors are understood across community, family, and individual levels in different cultural contexts. He maintains this outbreak documentation site and the companion interactive dashboard as an open project at diaphana-io/2026bdbv-dashboard.
What is this dashboard?
Section titled “What is this dashboard?”The 2026 BDBV outbreak dashboard is an English-language interactive application that summarizes how Bundibugyo virus disease spread from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria during the 2026 outbreak.
It provides outbreak overview, timeline, cases, contacts, map, border measures, and sources. Production data come from curated real-world sources and human-approved claims. When two sources disagree, both claims stay visible until a human curator resolves the conflict. Automated extract stays off in production until a backend design is approved through the project’s issue tracker.
This /docs site is the public companion: short background and references for a general audience. It does not replace WHO or national ministry reporting. For live maps and curated claims, use the dashboard.
Contact
Section titled “Contact”Questions about the project: GitHub Issues or Discussions. Sensitive matters: [email protected]. How we handle visitor data: Privacy Policy.