Democratizing data for public health

Title : Democratizing data for public health

Abstract:

The Population Health Analytics, Metric and Evaluation (PHAME) center integrates novel technology with academic expertise to provide community-level data analysis, evaluation and visualization of public health data. The Center advances health equity through data-driven public health decisions and meaningful population health initiatives. The Chicago Health Atlas is a public and community resource for hyper-local and essential data of public health, community, social, economic, and environmental indicators. The new Chicago Health Atlas, hosted by the PHAME center, has its core mission of democratizing data for public health. This presentation will describe the democratization of data in the Chicago Health Atlas as well as modeling and data analysis of public health data

Biography:

Sanjib Basu is the Paul Levy and Virginia F. Tomasek Professor of Biostatistics, Director, Center for Biostatistical Development, and heads the Section of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at University of Illinois Chicago.  Dr. Basu has been recognized as Fellow and Elected Member of professional societies, has a sustained list of publications and is currently serving in the Editorial Boards of multiple journals.