Subbian's Project Is All About Community Health

Associate BME professor Vignesh Subbian is the principal investigator of a five year, $570,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine to connect University of Arizona students with underserved communities in southern Arizona. The Health Informatics Research project will train students in responding to local health and environmental issues while learning about a place's history, culture and people.

"This program is all about educating and training our local community. It's about training Arizona and Arizonans and the program will improve the health of Arizona," Subbian said in an interview with Arizona Public Media. 

Subbian will be leading the project with collaborating principal investigator Kacey Ernst, professor and program director in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department in the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. 

"Interpretations to the data is going to be incredibly beneficial and much more of a rich experience than what you might get just sitting behind your desk and running calculations," she said.