Month: June 2021

Characterization of Satellite-Derived Air Quality Measurements for Health Applications

June 29, 2021 / Presentations

Summary: Adverse air quality (AQ) increases health morbidities including cardiovascular, respiratory, diabetes and COVID-19. Environmental Protection Agency’s ground-based monitors are often used to predict AQ for areas outside of their range. Satellite data may provide higher spatial and temporal resolution AQ data. Assess the potential of using satellite AQ data of PM2.5, NO2, SO2, and …

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Charting the life course: Emerging opportunities to advance scientific approaches using life course research

June 29, 2021 / Publications

Abstract Life course research embraces the complexity of health and disease development, tackling the extensive interactions between genetics and environment. This interdisciplinary blueprint, or theoretical framework, offers a structure for research ideas and specifies relationships between related factors. Traditionally, methodological approaches attempt to reduce the complexity of these dynamic interactions and decompose health into component …

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Human activity pattern implications for modeling SARS-CoV-2 transmission

June 29, 2021 / Publications

Background and Objectives SARS-CoV-2 emerged in December 2019 and rapidly spread into a global pandemic. Designing optimal community responses (social distancing, vaccination) is dependent on the stage of the disease progression, discovery of asymptomatic individuals, changes in virulence of the pathogen, and current levels of herd immunity. Community strategies may have severe and undesirable social …

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Informatics Ecosystem

June 19, 2021 / Updates

The NIH Pediatric Research using Integrated Sensor Monitoring Systems (PRISMS) program (http://www.nibib.nih.gov/research-funding/prisms) was launched in 2015 to develop sensor-based, integrated health monitoring systems for measuring environmental, physiological, and behavioral factors in epidemiological studies of pediatric asthma and other chronic diseases. The University of Utah was funded by NIH/NIBIB to develop an informatics ecosystem under this …

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What is Exposure Health Informatics?

June 19, 2021 / Updates

There is increasingly persuasive evidence that health and wellness are the result of a complex interactive process between the cumulative effects of multiple environmental exposures (chemical, physical [air, noise, etc.], biological, social, and psychological), lifestyle and behavior, health care, and genetic susceptibility. These factors influence health throughout the life course, in positive (health) or negative …

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Materializing the Exposome: The Center of Excellence for Exposure Health Informatics

June 19, 2021 / Presentations

The informatics faculty presented a webinar on March 11 for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). You can view the recording here. More About the Presentation Comprehensive quantification of effects of the modern environment on health requires taking into account data from all contributing environmental exposures (exposome) which can span endogenous processes within …

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