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Ian Brooks

Ian Brooks

Ian Brooks CV

Research Scientist

PhD, Bryn Mawr College

209 LIS

(217) 333-6080

ianb@illinois.edu

Other professional appointments

Director, Center for Health Informatics
Faculty Affiliate, The Center for Health, Aging, and Disability
Faculty Affiliate, Center for African Studies

Research focus

Public and global health informatics, epidemiology, cyberinfrastructure, data analytics, and One Health.

Active Research Projects

Pathtracker: A smartphone-based system for mobile infectious disease detection and epidemiology

Completed Research Projects

Developing Tools for Implementation of Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN) for Local Health Departments
Improving Patient Outcomes by Listening to Their Social Media Communications
INDICATOR: An Information System for Monitoring the Health of a Community

In the News

CHIME in Illinois brings together students, international public health agencies
Brooks presents research at WHO meeting on COVID-19 “infodemic”
Brooks discusses health informatics at ITU conference
Brooks presents state of health informatics to regional Ministers of Health
Brooks, students, publish paper based on class project
Brooks coauthors paper on social media use during Ebola outbreak
Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens
Unique global health informatics course to be offered at GSLIS
Brooks participates in $1M NSF grant to develop smartphone-based system for mobile disease detection
New grant to fund health sciences data collection tool
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