Keynote Speech by Dr. Leroy Hood, a Pioneer in Systems Medicine

Dr. Leroy Hood, a member of all three national academies and recipient of National Medal of Science for his  pioneering work on systems medicine, will be delivering a public keynote speech at the University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology on October 1st at 5:00 p.m. A strong advocate for P4 healthcare – healthcare that is predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory -- Hood will be in Memphis to participate in the fifth annual meeting of the NIH-funded Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K).

Hood is Senior Vice President and Chief Science Officer for St. Joseph Health, and Chief Strategy Officer, Co-founder and professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. He contributed to the development of the instruments that ushered in the era of big data in biology and medicine as well as the human genome program.

mHealth Training Institute mentors scholars to work in multidisciplinary teams to solve mHealth problems

The mHealth Training Institute (mHTI), which seeks to train the next generation of experts in mobile health (mHealth), was held July 29-August 3 at the University of California at Los Angeles. mHTI is funded by the National Institutes of Health and co-sponsored by the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K).

The mHealth field crosses many disciplines – medicine, computer science, engineering, behavioral science, statistics, to name a few. To take advantage of the opportunities that are available due to the increased use of mobile sensors in devices like smartphones and activity trackers, scientists from these disparate disciplines need to work together and eliminate the gap between technology development and their adoption for health research and health care.

UCLA has faculty opening in Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Anglees has an opening gfor a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured early Associate Professor in the Biopsychosocial Science of Health.

According to an announcement, UCLA seeks applicants who are pursuing innovative and collaborative biopsychosocial research on the dynamic interactions among psychological, social, behavioral, and biological factors, and their impact on health and disease. Example topic areas include health across the lifespan, and widely accessible approaches to prevention and intervention. Potential affiliations within the Department of Psychology include health, clinical, social, developmental, and other areas.

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Opening for Assistant Professor at Brown School of Public Health

The Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Brown University School of Public Health has an tenure-track opening for a scientist faculty member at the Assistant Professor level. The position will be available July 1, 2019.

According to a job posting, Brown is seeking candidates who have experience in digital technologies for public health, including but not limited to technology-based interventions for public health and global health. Focus areas include smartphone applications, wearable sensors, geospatial mapping and fencing, software development, and quantitative methods for analysis of mHealth data. The target behaviors or health conditions could include but are not limited to substance use disorders, physical activity, nutrition, obesity, and HIV.