A Health Informatics Pipeline

Public health researchers at UTA are working to improve information technology, refine COVID-19 data gathering, and increase representation among underrepresented groups in the field through a collaborative project with UT Health Science Center at Houston and local and state public health agencies.

"This initiative's objective is to develop a talent pipeline with people coming from various disciplines to work in a multi-interprofessional way to develop the future public health informatics workforce," says Marion Ball, the Raj and Indra Nooyi Endowed Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering. She is leading the project at UTA with Gabriela Wilson, professor of kinesiology. Chengkai Li, professor and associate chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is a co-investigator.

The team will work with all consortium partners to perform curricular needs assessments and develop competency-based curriculum in the areas of epidemiology, health data science, privacy and security, health equity, public health analytics, lab-based and remote diagnostics, public health reporting, semantic interoperability, public policy, multi-stream data management, social media listening, and health literacy.