Project Description

Dr. Santosh Kumar and Dr. Gary Clifford will speak Nov. 3 at a roundtable on “Mobile Health Analytics: Addressing Disparities in the Southern United States,” as part of the South Big Data Hub’s monthly series on emerging data science challenges.

The webinar will be noon-1:30 p.m. EDT and can be accessed  via WebEx here. Dr. Lea Shanley, South Hub co-Executive Director of the South Big Data Hub, will moderate.

The webinar will explore the science challenges of mHealth informatics, critical care data analysis and the application of signal processing and machine learning to address health disparities in the Southern United States.


Dr. Kumar is director of the Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) and the Moss Chair of Excellence Professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He will speak on the “Promise and Potential of Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge.”

Dr. Clifford is Interim Chair of Emory University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology. He will speak on “Improving health, privacy, and programming literacy for minority empowerment.”

For more information about the webinar, go here.

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