Public Health

New Tool Provides Population Health Insights in US Congressional Districts

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), an online data tool...

Analytics-Based Strategies Show Potential for Infectious Disease Testing

by Mark Melchionna

Published in the American Association for Clinical Chemistry's The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine, recent research describes two analytics-based strategies that were effective in helping...

Wastewater Monitoring Tool Tracks COVID-19 Trends, Public Health Threats

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Arizona State University and personnel from the city of Tempe, Arizona, have showcased the potential utility of a wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) tool to provide health hazard...

CDC Analytics Partnership Aims to Advance Public Health Preparedness

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and software company Palantir Technologies Inc. announced a renewal of the organizations’ partnership to modernize the US public health...

UC San Diego to Develop Dengue Fever, Infectious Disease Risk Platform

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and New Light Technologies Inc. (NLT) announced a partnership to develop an infectious disease risk platform designed to serve as...

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

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop an...

Researchers Develop Machine-Learning System to Detect Public Health Threats

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from New York University’s Machine Learning for Good Laboratory (ML4G Lab), Carnegie Mellon University, and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) have...

CDC Awards $9M for Development of Long COVID Surveillance System

by Shania Kennedy

Public health and medical researchers from Indiana University (IU) have announced a partnership with the Regenstrief Institute to develop a population-based surveillance system to determine the...

Most Drug Overdose Patients Not Tested for Fentanyl, Synthetic Opioids

by Shania Kennedy

A new study by Epic Research and the University of Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) shows that only 5 percent of drug overdose patients admitted to the emergency department...

HHS Announces First Group from Health Tech Startup Accelerator

by Shania Kennedy

The inaugural cohort of the HHS PandemicX Accelerator have completed the public-private health collaboration program and are sharing how they are addressing federal health challenges such as health...

ML Analysis of Handgun Purchases Can Forecast Suicide Risk

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in JAMA Network Open indicates that machine-learning (ML) models designed to analyze handgun transaction data can accurately forecast firearm suicide risk, resulting in insights...

Public, Population Health Informatics Program Nabs $2.5M to Expand Training

by Shania Kennedy

The Indiana Training Program in Public and Population Health Informatics, a collaboration between Indiana University (IU) and the Regenstrief Institute, has been awarded a five-year continuation of...

NJ Launches Statewide Population Health Data Project

by Shania Kennedy

Rutgers Center for State Health Policy has launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project to help address some of the state’s major population health issues, such as the...

New Data Reveals Massive Spike in Self-Harm, Suicide Calls Among Adolescents

by Mark Melchionna

While reviewing data from the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Washington Poison Center (WAPC) found that there was a substantial increase in reports of self-harm and suicide among...

Experts Call for Real-Time, Comprehensive Data to Address Opioid Crisis

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers argue that current issues around opioid overdose data prevent public health officials from getting a clear picture of the opioid crisis, leading them to fight the epidemic...

NIH Awards $68M to AI Company as Part of Antiviral Drug Development Collab

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced that PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, has been awarded $68 million as part of the...

CDC to Expand Wastewater Monitoring for COVID-19 Through Analytics Collab

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and wastewater epidemiology company Biobot Analytics have announced a partnership to expand the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS),...

CDC to Extend Partnership Supporting Disease Monitoring, Response

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and software company Palantir Technologies Inc. announced an extension of their 10-year partnership to address outbreak response and disease...

CDC Unveils Forecasting, Outbreak Analytics Center

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA), which aims to improve outbreak and public health threat response by using...

COVID-19 Contact Tracing Had Little Impact on Population Health

by Jill McKeon

Contact tracing was largely ineffective in slowing COVID-19 virus transmission and improving population health, mostly due to insufficient interview responses, according to a recent study published in...