Big Data Health Science Center
The University of South Carolina Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC), a USC Excellence Initiative, serves as a campus-wide interdisciplinary enterprise that conducts cutting-edge research and discovery, offers professional development and academic training, and provides service to the community and industry.
8th National Big Data Health Science Conference: Call for Abstracts
The University of South Carolina Big Data Health Science Center invites you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 8th National Big Data Health Science Conference, to be held February 11–12, 2027, in Columbia, SC.
The conference theme is “Unlocking the Power of Big Data in Health: Advancing Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Equitable Healthcare.”
Submission Deadline: November 6, 2026.
Visit https://www.sc-bdhs-conference.org/ to learn more.
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Call for Abstracts: 8th National Big Data Health Science Conference
The University of South Carolina Big Data Health Science Center invites you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 8th National Big Data Health Science Conference, to be held February 11–12, 2027, in Columbia, SC.
Abstracts should be responsive to the conference theme, “Unlocking the Power of Big Data in Health: Advancing Intelligent, Trustworthy, and Equitable Healthcare.” Abstracts may be research- or program-based, regardless of presentation format.
Visit https://www.sc-bdhs-conference.org/ to learn more.
Submission Deadline: November 6, 2026
Submit your oral or poster abstract by November 6, 2026. Submissions may be research- or program-based and can address topics related to big data analytics, public health, clinical care, policy, ethics, infrastructure, professional development, and other relevant areas.
Visit https://www.sc-bdhs-conference.org/ to learn more.
2027 Conference Proceedings
Authors will have the opportunity to publish their work in the 2027 Conference Proceedings at no cost.
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The scopes of the projects range from investigating the different ways that COVID-19 impacts people; making better predictions of COVID-19; designing telehealth services and technology innovations for the future; and engaging cutting-edge methods through artificial intelligence, data science, computational methods and statistical modeling.
NIH Grant to Develop Data-driven Strategies in Fighting COVID-19
This two-year grant will support the team’s efforts to develop a database system via REDCap and a mobile application for collating surveillance, clinical, multi-omics and geospatial data on both COVID-19 patients and health workers treating COVID-19 patients in South Carolina.
NSF Award for “Monitoring the Spatial Spread of COVID-19 through the Lens of Human Movement using Big Social Media Data”
Three members of the BDHSC have been awarded $108,717 by the National Science Foundation for their project titled “Monitoring the Spatial Spread of COVID-19 through the Lens of Human Movement using Big Social Media Data.”
Internal COVID-19 Research Grants
The UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced the recipients of its special internal funding initiative to support COVID-19 research and scholarship. BDHSC is pleased to announce that of the 42 projects funded, BDHSC faculty serve as PI for 10 projects and Co-I for 7 different projects.