DHI leverages technologies, such as embedded systems, mobile computing, social networking, and cloud platforms, and methodologies from computing and data sciences to tackle a range of applications related to healthcare systems, from medical informatics to healthcare delivery and administration. Innovations at this nexus of technologies, methodologies, and applications hold great promise for improving the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of healthcare, with significant benefits to the economy and society.
The Digital Health Initiative supports research projects and convenes a university-wide, multi-disciplinary community of researchers, practitioners, and students in pursuit of this goal.
Junior Faculty Spotlight: Pawel Przytycki, PhD (CDS) By Maeve Smillie As a 2025 Junior Faculty Fellow at the Hariri Institute for Computing, Pawel Przytycki, PhD, applies computational thinking to some of biology’s most complex questions. An Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences and core member of the Bioinformatics Program, Przytycki develops […]
By Hariri Institute Staff For Dr. Huitong Ding, the path to understanding Alzheimer’s disease runs through the data that captures everyday life—how people speak, sleep, move, and think. As a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and investigator at the Framingham Heart Study, […]
Blending machine learning with systems human immunology, Professor Adriana Tomic is working toward creating effective, long-memory vaccines for strong immunity against pandemic-potential viruses By Chloe Wojtanik and Maureen Stanton The flu affects about a billion people annually, abruptly forcing people to take sick leave, scramble for childcare coverage, and other disruptions. While the majority will […]
BEACON is a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform built to detect emerging infectious diseases in near real time, worldwide. The platform merges the power of artificial intelligence (AI) with a global network of human subject matter experts to provide fast, verified alerts to potential outbreaks.