Grant: Applied Public Health Chair - LOI

We all use information to make decisions. In our daily life, we have seen remarkable gains in the ease with which we can access information. Unfortunately, similar advances in information access have not occurred in public health practice, where it is often difficult to access necessary information. There is a huge potential benefit to society if we can develop and evaluate software to help people make better decisions about preventing chronic diseases, detecting infectious disease outbreaks, and making hospitals safer. This research program will develop and evaluate innovative strategies for harnessing the large amounts of digital data available, analyzing those data, and disseminating information to help address pressing public health problems.