Elizabeth Gardner

Oct 21, 2024 | mdpi.com | Qi Fu |Jill DeJager |Elizabeth Gardner

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Sep 24, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | Elizabeth Gardner

Public health data in the U.S. suffers from underfunded, antiquated systems built around siloed, single-purpose databases, spreadsheets, and even faxes. Fixing these problems is the job of Jennifer Layden, who is an epidemiologist, a physician, and the director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She leads the CDC’s Data Modernization Initiative, established in 2019.

Feb 27, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | Elizabeth Gardner

Written by Elizabeth Gardner Illustrations by Lilian Darmono Published February 15, 2024 Read Time 6 min Today’s AI is well-suited to handle routine functions—even those that still require some expert judgment. AI can be trained with the same rules experts use; it doesn’t get bored or tired; and it works on smart phones, making it budget-friendly. Here are a few ways AI-based applications are improving health. The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and more...

Aug 31, 2023 | reporter.net | Elizabeth Gardner

The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the vaccine supply chain and public health impact of vaccine stability. But Purdue University researchers have been working on the problem for years — using rocket science to advance a freeze-drying technology that lengthens product shelf life. And that technology could soon be available in the marketplace.

Aug 1, 2023 | prsay.prsa.org | Elizabeth Gardner

Over my several decades as a health care business writer and editor, browsing hundreds of company websites and receiving (and deleting) thousands of press releases, I have not bothered to count the number of times an organization has claimed that some virtue or other is “in our DNA.” But it’s a lot. The term “corporate DNA” even has its own Wikipedia page.