The Born in Bradford (BiB) Longitudinal Birth Cohort
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Born in Bradford (BiB) is a longitudinal multi-ethnic birth cohort study set-up to examine the impact of environmental, psychological and genetic factors on maternal and child health and wellbeing. Based in the city of Bradford in the North of England, the cohort began in 2007 an an effort to better understand the causes of the high levels, compared to national norms, of infant mortality and child ill-health observed within the local population.
Movement Matters: Investigating the role movement plays in children’s psychological and academic developement
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Learning to produce coordinated movements is one of the first and most fundamental challenges the developing brain must master and yet within the psychological sciences sensorimotor behaviour is often reductively treated as largely epiphenomenal and only a subordinate representation of the workings of higher-order, more abstracted, cognitive abilities (e.g. attention, executive function). In this presentation I will present data that challenges this assumption and argues for greater appreciation of sensorimotor processes as an ‘equal partner’ alongside other aspects psychological functioning in determining the trajectory of a child’s developmental.
Firstly, in the context of child mental health I will present evidence of coordination difficulties often co-occurring in conjunction with other forms of psychopathology to a greater extent than previous assumed and potentially having shared genetic origins with other disorders.
Building the “Discovery Instruments” for Precision Medicine and Population Health Research
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The PHATE of Communities
Most physicians have little understanding of the neighborhoods they serve or the social factors that affect the people who live there. We know that social factors are among the most potent effectors of life outcomes and that neighborhood social factors can be reliable markers for identifying personal risk. Even as health care starves social services that can improve outcomes, health care is feeling pressure to fill the gap and address patient and community risks. Nonprofit hospitals, health departments, and community health centers are already required to assess their communities and commit resources to addressing problems. Community Health Centers were born out of Community Oriented Primary Care, a systematic approach to defining, assessing, engaging, and assisting community, but that legacy is largely lost.
PHATE is a population health tool commissioned by the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and developed in collaboration with the Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems (CARES) at the University of Missouri. PHATE provides clinicians with a fuller understanding of their patient population in the context of their community. PHATE utilizes patient and community data to define and assess a practice service area, and to point to community resources. When integrated with a registry or EHR it can also attach a Community Vital Sign to each patient and identify disease or quality “hotspots.” The ABFM aspires to use PHATE and other claims data to define the geography of primary care. This geography can help policymakers understand holes in access to care, guide investments in health professions training to fill them, and identify other solutions to pools of health inequity.
Machine-age tools for understanding economic development: Harnessing new data sources on access to opportunity in India
Policy-making in developing countries still depends on traditional sample surveys. Remote sensing and data exhaust from government administration create a wealth of high resolution data on socioeconomic patterns and changes. We are building a new open data platform that solves some of the technical and institutional challenges that have limited the use of data like these until now. Based on the principles of open source software, our platform aims to create incentives for social scientists to share data that has previously been tied up in silos, and to provide the technical infrastructure that makes it convenient to share data that is useful for others. The utility of the platform, which currently covers India, is demonstrated by using the underlying data to document changes in upward mobility in India with high geographic precision, as well as the distribution of caste- and religion-based residential segregation in towns across the country.
The Depth of Despair among US Young Adults
Known as the deaths of despair, the drivers of increasing midlife mortality are under debate, and the role of hopeless and despair is unclear. Using data from the nationally representative National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), I test whether increases in indicators of despair have been particularly acute among White, low-educated, rural members of the cohort.
Using Genome-Wide Data to Investigate the Joint Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits
Methods for using genome-wide data to estimate genetic overlap between pairwise combinations of traits have produced “atlases” of genetic architecture. These atlases have revealed pervasive genetic sharing across different social, behavioral, and mental health outcomes, and individual risk variants are often found to be associated with multiple such outcomes. My group has recently a developed formal multivariate framework for analyzing the joint genetic architectures of constellations of traits using summary statistics from existing Genome-Wide Association Studies. This method, Genomic Structural Equation Modeling (Genomic SEM), can be used to identify variants with effects on both general and specific dimensions of cross-trait liability, boost power for discovery, and calculate more predictive polygenic scores. Genomic SEM can further be used to construct and test hypothesized cascade models of trait development and disease progression. In this talk, I describe the Genomic SEM framework and present results of a series of substantive applications of the method in the areas of psychology and mental health.
Optum Data Training: Optum Clinformatics Data Mart (CDM) version 8
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The Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences will receive a new version of Optum Clinformatics® Data Mart (CDM) version 8 (v8) and *two* additional years (2018 and 2019). Optum will offer an in-person training at Stanford on March 17, 2020. There will be a Zoom option and the trainings will be recorded.
There are significant changes to the table structure and data logic. The next delivery will include a full data redelivery back to our data start date. You will learn more about the changes to the new dataset at this training.
You are encouraged to take advantage of this session to ask questions and clarify any concerns.
Securing Research Access to Government Microdata
Learn about research opportunities at the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) with the Census Bureau’s, Dr. Victoria Udalova.
The FSRDC provides access to secure microdata held by the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, plus thousands of other datasets held by 11 other federal agencies.
The FSRDC leadership team is specifically addressing ways to facilitate quick review of Covid-19 related research projects.
Dr. Victoria Udalova is a research economist at the Census Bureau, who was a visiting scholar at the Stanford Institute for Policy Research (SIEPR) last fall. Dr. Udalova is the lead researcher on the Census Bureau’s Enhancing Health Data initiative, and her areas of interest include health economics and health care workforce.
Co-sponsored with the Stanford institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS)
This multi-disciplinary conference will bring together public health officials, researchers, and physicians to share COVID information, discoveries, and stories.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading experts have come together across disciplinary and national borders to address urgent public health needs, share vital data and research, and provide critical medical care.
This multi-disciplinary Conference will bring together public health officials, researchers, and physicians to share COVID information, discoveries, and stories. Together, we endeavor to increase knowledge, empower education, and positively impact our response to this pandemic.
The Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE) was founded with the mission of improving the health of Asians through increasing knowledge and empowering education. Through funding innovative research, educating promising scholars, and community outreach, CARE is committed to improving healthcare both locally and globally. Stanford University is located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, an incredibly rich and diverse region where 58% of the population belongs to a minority group.
Co-sponsored with the Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE)