Research & Applied Analytics

Goals

We are grounded in mission, vision and values to advance the following goals:

  • Improve the health and well-being of the U-M community
  • Optimize the student experience of healthcare (e.g., access, equity)
  • Partner across the institution to create actionable insights and best practices
  • Increase data interoperability and exchange
  • Increase insights into both timeless and emerging health concerns for college students
  • Improve analytic capacity at both the individual and population level

Principal Investigators (PIs)
Lindsey Mortenson, MD, MS
Susan Ernst, MD
Rob Ernst, MD
Chris Frank, MD, PhD

Data Team
JoLynn Montgomery, MPH, PhD
Elizabeth Edwards, MPH
Roen Montalva, MS
Jessica Cannon, MPH
Libby McEvoy, MPH

Population Focus
College students, including undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

Active Projects

Strategic Focus Area

Project

Mental health & addiction

  • Mental health emergency and inpatient care
  • Sports gambling
  • Role of the arts to prevent and reduce loneliness
  • Climate change anxiety among college students
  • Emerging risks for student-athletes

Acute & emergency care

  • Emergency department care
  • Injury monitoring
  • Concussion management and return-to-learn

Gender & sexual health

  • Reproductive health care disparities for persons with disabilities
  • Patient experience for transgender and gender diverse students

Infectious disease

  • Respiratory illness monitoring
  • Syndrome-based monitoring

Well-being impacts 

of policies & systems

  • Impact of insurance, federal, and state policies on student mental health and other outcomes