C. Ed Hsu, Ph.D., MPH, is Associate Professor of Public Health Informatics at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences and School of Public Health, and Associate director of health informatics at the Center for Biosecurity and Public Health Preparedness at The University of Texas School of Public Health.  Hsu has 20 years of public health informatics experience in teaching and research, including 10 years experience in health surveillance systems in the U.S. and abroad.  The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences is among only a few high education institutions in the U.S. that provide doctoral educational training and research opportunities in the public health informatics sciences.  

In Hsu’s Preventive Health Informatics and Spatial Analysis laboratory (PHISTA) at UT Houston, he is using public health informatics to address critical public health challenges, including global health surveillance and emergency preparedness.  Relevant to these topics Hsu has contributed more than a dozen peer-review journal articles and a book chapter. Hsu can discuss how public health informatics is being used to prepare for and monitor cases/outbreak of swine flu, and the potentiality of an endemic in the U.S. and pandemic in a global health context.  Contact Hsu at UT: Email:Chiehwen.e.hsu@uth.tmc.edu  Office:713.500.3969 Cell:301.222.7372

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