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Global health

Emergency care and data science beyond Charlottesville.

Patients in treatment, one dot eachA model looks for risk, earlyFlagged early: extra support during treatmentStart of treatmentEnd of treatment
IllustrationCould a model of treatment outcomes point extra support to the right patients, early enough to matter?

The problem

The problem

Emergency care depends on systems, and many of the world’s are still being built. This work looks at emergency care beyond Charlottesville and at how data can guide treatment where resources are scarce.

A data scientist with a large desk globe, linked by a data stream to a patient in a clinic bay

Focus areas

What this work wants to know

  1. How can emergency care be strengthened in resource-limited settings?

  2. Can predictive models of tuberculosis treatment outcomes help target interventions?

People

Who works on this

Faculty whose research connects to this area.

  • Andrew E. Muck, MD, MBA

    Professor & Chair, Marcus L. Martin Distinguished Professor

    Research interests: ED Throughput & AI · Medical Direction · Global Health · Medical Education

  • Farah Turkistani, MSDS

    Data Scientist

    Research interests: Machine Learning · Global Health · Tuberculosis · Sepsis

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