Public Health Intelligence and the Internet

Dr. Arash Shaban-Nejad, MS, PhD, MPH Arash Shaban-Nejad is an Assistant Professor in the OAK-Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Department of Pediatrics, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Before coming to UTHSC, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the McGill Clinical and Health Informatics Group at McGill University, where he was conducting research on knowledge modeling/management and informed decision making for several applications in the domains of biomedical and health informatics. He received his Ph.D. and MSc in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal and MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. Additional training was accrued at the Harvard School of Public Health. His primary research interest is Population Health Intelligence, Epidemiologic Surveillance and Big-Data Semantic Analytics through the use of tools and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, and Semantic Web. Dr. Shaban-Nejad is also the principal investigator in a global health and development research project for malaria elimination, funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and an associate editor of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Dr. John Brownstein, PhD

Geographical Mapping and Visual analytics for Health Data.- Social Media Analytics.- Epidemic Intelligence.- Predictive modelling and Decision support.- Biomedical Ontologies, terminologies and standard.- Bayesian Networks and Reasoning under Uncertainty.- Temporal and Spatial Representation and Reasoning.- Case-based Reasoning in Healthcare.- Crowdsourcing, and Collective Intelligence.- Risk assessment, Trust, Ethics, and Privacy.- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining.- Computational Behavioral/Cognitive Modeling.- Applications in Epidemiology and Surveillance (e.g. Bioterrorism, Participatory Surveillance).