Our Mission
As a department in the Emory University School of Medicine, our mission is threefold:
- Educate and train students and postgraduate fellows as leaders in the field
- Advance research in biomedical and health informatics
- Improve health by creating and evaluating novel health care initiatives
We do this by assembling a world-class faculty to drive mission-critical research and shaping collegial relationships with scientists and medical practitioners at Emory and beyond - while advancing health equity and racial and social justice.
An Ideal Setting for Biomedical Informatics
The broader Atlanta region has a remarkable combination of strengths and opportunities to position itself as a leader in biomedical informatics. This discipline incorporates virtually all areas of biomedical, physical, computational and social sciences. And vast research and educational resources in these areas make Emory an ideal setting for it.
World-class Research Groups
Emory has some of the best research groups in the world in cancer, infectious diseases, neurosciences, pathology, psychiatry, human genetics, high-throughput drug discovery, radiology, and more — each actively interested in integrating informatics into their work.
Partnering Big Data and Bench Science with Clinical Care
Working with clinical partners at Emory Healthcare, our department is combining state-of-the-art machine learning, signal processing, and clinical domain knowledge to position itself as a world leader in streaming analytics, mHealth, quantitative imaging, and quantitative neurophysiology and neuropsychiatry.
“Our access to healthcare data is unparalleled, and it provides the opportunity to create systems that can be evaluated in a real healthcare setting. We are physically co-located with the hospital, which guarantees a constant flow and easy in-person collaborations with clinical faculty and staff. Nothing beats spending time with the clinicians to understand the flaws in your data analysis and system design.”
— Gari Clifford, DPhil, Department Chair