Informatics – UC Irvine Wen Public Health

News Medical Life Sciences, September 5, 2024

Researchers seek to revolutionize neurological disease treatment through intelligent biocomputing

"The premise of the UC Irvine-USC project is to combine engineering principles with stem cell research to treat damaged brain regions. The team's long-term goal is to restore motor functions to patients who have suffered brain damage from a stroke or experienced other neurological problems." (Leigh Turner)

Purdue RCAC, June 21, 2023

Cancer researchers learn about big data analysis using Anvil

"All of our participants are cancer researchers, so they have zero experience in computing and minimal experience in statistics." (Min Zhang)

Health IT buzz, March 27, 2023

PHIT Students Put Their Informatics Education to Use

". In this day and age, technology is all around us and is constantly improving. I wanted to take that initial step to immerse myself in the IT space, and what better way to do that than with health informatics! Joining the PHIT Program gave me experience in addressing the needs of disadvantaged communities and being the change I wish to see." (Obiajulu Oduma )

UCI PHIT leadership from left to right: Tim Bruckner, PhD; Yunan Chen, PhD; Kai Zheng, PhD; Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH; and Margaret Schneider, PhD. Not pictured: Marvin Maldonado.

Health IT Buzz, March 27, 2023

PHIT Students Put Their Informatics Education to Use

"I greatly enjoyed learning in-depth about past advancements and the progress that continues to be made to improve the accessibility and convenience of healthcare to both patients and healthcare workers. One energizing aspect of my health informatics minor was realizing the vast array of avenues I can take to find solutions for different concerns in healthcare."

STAT, February 22, 2023

Tools to predict stroke risk work less well for Black patients, study finds

"The algorithm can only predict as much as the data it is fed so it is not surprising that it is not accurately predicting risk in communities of color. We need a dataset that is more comprehensive that includes variables from structural bias to discrimination to neighborhood pollution." (Bernadette Boden-Albala)

Science X, November 9, 2022

An early warning system for future pandemics?

"The National Science Foundation agreed and bestowed nearly $1 million on the 10-member UCI-UCLA team under its new Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention grant program, which funds 'high-risk, high-payoff' research that 'aims to identify, model, predict, track and mitigate the effects of future pandemics.'" (Andrew Noymer)

Health IT Analystics, November 9, 2022

AI System to Leverage Social Media to Predict, Prevent Future Pandemics

"If we can’t find harbingers for outbreaks of COVID-19 or monkeypox, our concept is sledding uphill. And even if we do find them, that doesn’t guarantee they’ll foreshadow the next pandemic. But the potential payoff makes the idea worth investigating." (Andrew Noymer)