Health Informatics

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, few studies have examined how clinical outcomes differ by socioeconomic conditions among infected patients. In a new PLOS ONE study, Dr. Yongkang Zhang, research associate in population health sciences; Dr. Dhruv Khullar, assistant...

COVID-19 is a heterogenous disease that continues to evolve. As the world faces new waves of the pandemic, unique populations are not responding to the virus in the same way. These differences in biological host responses of infected individuals have been difficult for scientists to fully understand. To help inform effective patient management and public health policy making, Dr. Fei Wang,...

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. adults experienced mental illness in 2018, and nearly 20 percent of those with mental illness experienced a co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD). To help inform policy during the ongoing addiction crisis, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers examined how opioid use disorder (OUD) impacts healthcare utilization relative to other SUDs. Dr. Jyotishman Pathak, professor of population health sciences;...