On this blog, you’ll find four pages that explore the Public Health Informatics space, each from a different vantage point. We hope visitors to this blog will use this opportunity to get to know what Public Health Informatics has to offer, and come to understand its increasingly important role in modern health care systems.
A Timeline for Public Health Informatics.
The first page of this blog represents a multimedia timeline representing the major events and innovations that make possible current work in the field. The timeline is a great opportunity to see how evolving health needs and evolving technologies propel Public Health Informatics to it’s current status as a vital component of health care service delivery.
Surveys: A Study in Tool Development.
On our survey page, you’ll find an example survey tool, dedicated to understanding rural intimate partner violence in the United States. We use exploratory analysis methods like surveys to understand the context of a particular health outcome in specific space or place. With this survey, we were seeking information for the development of a website that would allow us to collect surveillance data and direct individuals to resources to escape instances of IPV. Our hope was to reach individuals through advertisements on social media sites and collect anonymous information.
Audio Diary: An Look Inside the Public Health Profession.
Imagine for a moment, stepping into the heart of a public health emergency response. In a series of four audio diaries, we imagine ourselves as front line epidemiologists taking on the Opioid crisis in rural Portsmouth, Ohio. How will we respond? what can we accomplish in the short term? What databases and information tools do we have at our disposal and what do we still need? We try to understand the importance of Public Health Informatics through this exercise of perspective taking and role play.
Public Health Informatics in the News.
Concepts and practices related to Public Health Informatics are constantly in the news, yet very few people understand informatics as a component of health care delivery. Here we explore the intersection of informatics and human health in a series of four articles from NPR. Each article will take us through a different data problem, and how individuals across the spectrum are considering all sides.