Informatics Methods for Exposure Health

Presentation Time: 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Abstract Keywords: Environmental Health and Climate Informatics, Knowledge Representation and Information Modeling, Ubiquitous Computing and Sensors, Data Transformation/ETL, Education and Training, Internet of Things
Primary Track: Applications
Programmatic Theme: Public Health Informatics

A substantial portion of disease and wellbeing can be attributed to and or modulated by exposures. Comprehensive quantification of the effects of the modern environment on health requires considering data from all contributing exposures (exposome) which can span endogenous processes within the body, biological responses of adaptation to environment, physiological manifestations of these responses, and socio-behavioral factors. While overall trends are documented in the literature, there is a great deal of specificity and vis-à-vis temporal and spatial resolution detail that remains to be understood. Generating detailed exposomes requires integration of data from wearable and stationary sensors, environmental monitors, personal activities, physiology, clinical data, genomic and biospecimen-derived, person-reported, and computational models, accommodating multiple and variable spatio-temporal resolutions and accounting for multiple study, experimental and analytical designs.

In this tutorial, we will provide attendees with a comprehensive instructional seminar of exposure health informatics. First, we provide an overview of core informatics concepts and methods that are unique to exposure health that arise from measuring dissimilar root objects and integrating data with differential granularities and associated uncertainties. Then, we will cover core sensor informatics skills and working knowledge of deploying, integrating and utilizing sensors to quantify environmental exposures as well as their metadata management. Next, we discuss key techniques and methods to develop and utilize computational models for estimation of exposures. We will also cover methods to integrate and assimilate diverse and heterogeneous data as ‘events’. We will conclude with an open floor to discuss innovations and collaborations in exposure health informatics research.

Speaker(s):
Ram Gouripeddi, MD
University of Utah

Rachel Nelson


Mollie Cummins, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
University of Utah

Katherine Sward, PhD
University of Utah

Julio Facelli, PhD
Facelli

Author(s):
Ram Gouripeddi, MD - University of Utah; Rachel Nelson; Mollie Cummins, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI - University of Utah; Katherine Sward, PhD - University of Utah; Julio Facelli, PhD - Facelli;