Data Science for Advancing Population Health

Date: 
April 22, 2019
Time: 
8:00am - 1:00pm
Place: 
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Join us for the first event in a new joint UC Berkeley-UCSF Population Health Series: Data Science for Advancing Population Health

Objectives:

  • To present a vision for population health data science in 2020 and beyond
  • To launch a new UCSF-UCB rotating series of meetings on relevant population health topics
  • To provide a forum for UCSF and UCB faculty to discuss cutting edge topics related to population health and data science

Intended Audience:

UC Berkeley and UCSF Faculty and Researchers in the areas of population health, data science, biostatistics, and public policy.

AGENDA

8:00-8:30 am Light Breakfast and Coffee

8:30-8:40 am Welcome by William H. Dow, PhD, Interim Dean, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

8:40-9:40 am Keynote: A Vision of Data Science for Population Health

  • Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, UCSF Vice Dean, Population Health and Health Equity (Vision for linkage of clinical data outside of the EHR across UCs)
  • William H. Dow, PhD (Public health data science: Opportunities for advancing the health of vulnerable Californians)

9:40-10:10 am: Big Data for Public Health Policy

  • Jesse Rothstein, PhD, UCB Professor of Public Policy & Economics (The California Policy Lab: An Administrative Data Infrastructure for California)
  • Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, UCSF Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine (Linking big data to study the health effects of social policies)

10:10-10:40 am Networking Break & Refreshments

10:40-11:10 am Harnessing EHR Data for Place-Based Research: A UCB-UCSF Partnership

  • Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA, UCB Associate Professor of Epidemiology
  • Courtney Lyles, PhD, UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine

11:10-11:40 am Nontraditional Data Sources and Tools for Population Health

  • Ziad Obermeyer, MD, UCB Associate Professor (Machine learning related to clinical questions)
  • Urmimala Sarkar, MD, UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine (Social Media for Population Health)

11:40-12:00 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps

12:00-1:00 Networking Lunch

REGISTER HERE

This event is sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco Population Health Data Initiative. Funding has been provided by a grant from the Koret Foundation for the development of joint UC Berkeley/UCSF research agendas. The planning committee includes: Jennifer Ahern, UCB Associate Professor of Epidemiology; Elizabeth Brashers, UC Berkeley-UCSF Liaison and Interim Chief of Staff to the Vice Chancellor for Research; Jessica Fields, UCSF Program Manager; Lauren H. Goldstein, UCB School of Public Health Director of Research Development; Rita Hamad, UCSF Assistant Professor of Family & Community Medicine; Courtney Lyles, UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine; and Mahasin Mujahid, UCB Associate Professor of Epidemiology.

Registration is limited - please only register if you are certain you can attend the event. Livestream link to be added closer to the date of the event.