public health informatics:


"...the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning."

O'Carroll P, Yasnoff WA, Ward ME, Ripp LH, Martin EL, eds. Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. NY, Springer; 2003:5.




By
improving our information
strategies and technologies,
we can improve
public health.

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Our Mission:

To provide an interdisciplinary environment that supports innovative research into information strategies and technologies to improve the health of the public.


Who We Are:

The Center for Public Health Informatics (CPHI) is housed within the School of Public Health & Community Medicine at the University of Washington with offices in Seattle. Our incredible faculty and staff are highly esteemed, challenging and encouraging each other to pursue new ways to improve public health informatics. More information about us...

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PHI2008 registration is open!
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Building on the success of PHI2007, the first Public Health Informatics conference, PHI2008 will be held September 18-19, 2008 in Seattle, WA. Through plenary sessions, panel and break-out discussions, and poster sessions, the PHI2008 program is dedicated to defining and developing a framework for addressing strategic public health information issues and requirements to drive successful global population health interventions.

The theme of this year's conference is Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies. PHI2008 will cover a wide scope of global public health informatics topics and will showcase state-of-the-art public health informatics research, development, and applications, with an emphasis on sustainable development strategies and sharing information technologies, data and knowledge.

PHI2008 is open to practitioners, academics, scientists, managers, students, and decision makers from the various disciplines, industries, governmental institutions, international and intergovernmental organizations, agencies and networks that are concerned with improving the public's health on the local, national and global levels through the application of information and communications technologies.

Join us September 18-19, 2008 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center in beautiful Seattle, Washington, USA! For more information on the program and to register: www.gpphi.org/conferences

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The Center for Public Health Informatics is housed in the Department of Health Services in the University of Washington
School of Public Health & Community Medicine in partnership with Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics, School of Medicine.
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