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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

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.

Courses currently teaching

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

Completed Research Projects

INDICATOR: An Information System for Monitoring the Health of a Community

In the News

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
Brooks delivers invited talk to Board of Trustees
Blake, Brooks, and Zhai to share research at technology showcase
New research scientist to build relationships with health sciences community
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