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Ian Brooks

Research Scientist

PhD, Bryn Mawr College

209 LIS

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.

Courses currently teaching

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 June 29 2020

Brooks presents research at WHO meeting on COVID-19 “infodemic” April 10 2020

Brooks discusses health informatics at ITU conference December 13 2019

Brooks presents state of health informatics to regional Ministers of Health October 9 2019

Brooks, students, publish paper based on class project August 22 2018

Brooks coauthors paper on social media use during Ebola outbreak February 14 2018

Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens October 31 2017

Unique global health informatics course to be offered at GSLIS November 23 2015

Brooks participates in $1M NSF grant to develop smartphone-based system for mobile disease detection November 10 2015

New grant to fund health sciences data collection tool August 27 2015