Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health

Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health is an NIH Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on leveraging Big Data to mitigate health inequality for women.

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KU establishes $11 million biomedical center to advance women’s health using big data

Amber Watts featured in Turning Back the Clock

Turning Back the Clock New tools and innovative research are challenging the conventional ways aging is measured.

Misty Heggeness part of a partnership to establish the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027

Misty Heggeness, associate professor of public affairs & administration and economics, will lead KU's contributions to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 2027, the latest effort from the U.S.

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What We Do

By funding research projects, supporting faculty, improving lab facilities and boosting collaboration across scholarly fields, the center will harness complex datasets to tackle biomedical issues vital to women. The leading collaborators at KU come from a range of laboratory sciences as well as behavioral and social sciences. The COBRE BD-WH integrates a Data Set Core led by Donna Ginther, five research projects and multiple pilot projects, led by KU faculty from various scientific disciplines, to leverage large biomedical datasets for advancing women's health research.

Research reported in this website is supported by an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and Office of the Director (OD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Award Number P20GM152280-01. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.