The objective of this focus area is to help advance data sharing, acquisition, integration, analysis and resulting insights in the pursuit of improved public health and health outcomes. This includes:
1. Enabling data sharing, acquisition and integration to develop knowledge and insight in the pursuit of improved health outcomes, including alternative health data sources such as environmental factors, social media and mobile health
2. Supporting the development and deployment of advanced analytics, including causal discovery and reasoning, artificial intelligence, and machine learning in biomedicine
3. Enabling data science collaborations in the support of precision medicine, including advanced decision support leveraging data to deliver customized and personalized knowledge, insight and recommendations
Current Projects
Exposome Data Insight Pilot – coming soon!
Relevant Open Datasets
Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) COVID in Boston Database
Additional Global COVID Datasets
Success Stories
COVID-19 researchers share insights at the November COVID Information Commons webinar.
This month’s Covid Information Commons (CIC) webinar brought together researchers, students and leaders in nonprofits. The CIC serves as a…
Researchers from NYU Tandon release 3-D data tracking human interactions outside of coronavirus hotspots
Study to set groundwork to build machine learning models that rapidly analyze how a virus spreads In April when New…
Researchers studying COVID-19 share insights at first COVID Information Commons Community webinar
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5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Cassandra Thiel, New York University
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the US food supply network. Supply chains that were very efficient in meeting the needs of restaurants and supermarkets have had a hard time adapting to changing conditions.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Tracy Van Holt, New York University
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the US food supply network. Supply chains that were very efficient in meeting the needs of restaurants and supermarkets have had a hard time adapting to changing conditions.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Debra Laefer, New York University
We tried to understand to what extent people coming from a COVID-19-infected environment interact with the built and natural environment. Specifically, we wanted to understand in three dimensions what people touched, how much they touched, and where they went coming out of hospitals and urgent care facilities at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Bernhard Leidner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Our research examines and compares people’s compliance with these measures over time, across diverse national, cultural, and political contexts. Specifically, it focuses on how different value and belief systems influence (non)compliance with containment measures as the pandemic unfolds.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Sarah Bowman, Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
Understanding the structures of the SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins is essential to understanding its biology, its infectiousness, its transmissibility, and how to develop treatments for it. Our project focuses on enabling the process of structure determination for SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Amy Pickering, Tufts University
The role of contaminated surfaces (fomites) in community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been debated. Our team is sampling high-touch public surfaces during the ongoing pandemic to improve understanding of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection when the public accesses essential businesses such as grocery stores, pharmacies, and gas stations.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Leila Hedayatifar, New England Complex Systems Institute
Modeling COVID-19 in the context of optimizing quarantine policy using mobility patterns
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Ramesh Raskar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We are designing a public health solution for contact tracing built around digital ecosystems. Our current focus is on improving privacy, user-experience, effectiveness, and adoption of digital contact tracing. With so many issues at forefront, the challenge to solve the contact tracing puzzle is manifold.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Samantha Penta, University at Albany
People’s ability to understand and personalize threats are key in getting them to adopt protective behaviors. COVID-19 presents a serious threat to health. However, unlike threats from other kinds of hazards, the virus does not offer any visible indication of its threat or presence.
5 Questions with COVID Researchers: Maurizio Porfiri, New York University
We have a detailed transmission model that specifically focuses on the availability of testing strategies and their effect on the containment and spread of COVID-19, which is amenable to the systematic exploration of a wide range of important “what-if” scenarios.
Announcing the Northeast Big Data Hub Seed Fund Program
The Northeast Big Data Hub is delighted to announce our Seed Fund program this month. Designed to promote collaboration in…
Largest-ever cohort of U.S. twins fuels new BD Spoke study
Studying the causes of disease is essential to medical research. However, the discussion is sometimes framed, misleadingly, as ‘nature vs….