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
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- journal article | 2021
- Chronic opioid use is associated with early biologic discontinuation in inflammatory bowel disease
- Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics
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- journal article | 2021
- Ethics and informatics in the age of COVID-19: challenges and recommendations for public health organization and public policy
- J Am Med Inform Assoc
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- journal article | 2021
- 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
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- other | 2021
- Twitter Discourse on Nicotine as Potential Prophylactic or Therapeutic for COVID-19
- medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
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- other | 2020
- All for One and One for All: Why a Pandemic Preparedness League of Nations?
- Health Policy and Technology
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- journal article | 2020
- A Systematic Framework to Rapidly Obtain Data on Patients with Cancer and COVID-19: CCC19 Governance, Protocol, and Quality Assurance
- Cancer Cell
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- journal article | 2020
- Using residential histories in case-control analysis of lung cancer and mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia
- Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol
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- journal article | 2020
- Stigma, biomarkers, and algorithmic bias: recommendations for precision behavioral health with artificial intelligence
- JAMIA open
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- journal article | 2020
- Prevalence and reasons for Juul use among college students
- Journal of American college health : J of ACH
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- journal article | 2020
- Impact of contexts, resource types and perceptions on information management within the personal domain among college students
- Aslib J. Inf. Manag.