Institute for Biomedical Informatics | University of Kentucky

One goal of research at the University of Kentucky is to improve the health of Kentuckians. Public health informatics is the application of informatics at the level of populations to study health-related issues. Specific topics of study include the epidemiology of cancer and use of pharmaceuticals.

Faculty

Projects

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant
DATA-Kentucky CAN HEAL (Communities and Networks Helping End Addiction)
Training in Drug Abuse Related Research
Supplement: Cost Extension - Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science
Informatics at the Kentucky Cancer Registry: Infrastructure, data analysis, and precision cancer surveillance
Toward Fine-Grained E-Cigarette Surveillance on Social Media: Evolving Themes, Popularity Predictors, and Demographic Variations

Recent publications and other works

- journal article | 2021
- Rhudy C, Perry CL, Singleton M, Talbert J, Barrett TA
- Chronic opioid use is associated with early biologic discontinuation in inflammatory bowel disease
- Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics
- journal article | 2021
- Subbian V, Solomonides A, Clarkson M, Rahimzadeh VN, Petersen C, Schreiber R, DeMuro PR, Dua P, Goodman KW, Kaplan B, Koppel R, Lehmann CU, Pan E, Senathirajah Y
- Ethics and informatics in the age of COVID-19: challenges and recommendations for public health organization and public policy
- J Am Med Inform Assoc
- journal article | 2021
- Rough S, Shane R, Armitstead JA, Belford SM, Brummond PW, Chen D, Collins CM, Dalton H, Dopp AL, Estevez MM, Hager DR, Halbach B, Hays R, Knoer S, Kotis D, Montgomery D, Plummer B, Riester MR, Schreier DJ, Simonson D, Siska MH, Waier K, Vermeulen LC
- The high-value pharmacy enterprise framework: Advancing pharmacy practice in health systems through a consensus-based, strategic approach
- American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
- other | 2021
- Kavuluru R, Noh J, Rose SW
- Twitter Discourse on Nicotine as Potential Prophylactic or Therapeutic for COVID-19
- medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
- other | 2020
- Dey S, Cheng Q, Tan J
- All for One and One for All: Why a Pandemic Preparedness League of Nations?
- Health Policy and Technology
- journal article | 2020
- Abidi M, Aboulafia DM, Accordino MK, Acoba JD, Ahluwalia MS, Ahmad SA, Ajmera A, Alimohamed SI, Altman J, Angevine AH, et al.
- A Systematic Framework to Rapidly Obtain Data on Patients with Cancer and COVID-19: CCC19 Governance, Protocol, and Quality Assurance
- Cancer Cell
- journal article | 2020
- Christian WJ, Walker CJ, Huang B, Levy JE, Durbin E, Arnold S
- Using residential histories in case-control analysis of lung cancer and mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia
- Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol
- journal article | 2020
- Walsh CG, Chaudhry B, Dua P, Goodman KW, Kaplan B, Kavuluru R, Solomonides A, Subbian V
- Stigma, biomarkers, and algorithmic bias: recommendations for precision behavioral health with artificial intelligence
- JAMIA open
- journal article | 2020
- Ickes M, Hester JW, Wiggins AT, Rayens MK, Hahn EJ, Kavuluru R
- Prevalence and reasons for Juul use among college students
- Journal of American college health : J of ACH
- journal article | 2020
- Syn S, Sinn D, Kim S
- Impact of contexts, resource types and perceptions on information management within the personal domain among college students
- Aslib J. Inf. Manag.