Partners
BDHSC takes a collaborative and campus-wide approach that encourages an interdisciplinary spirit by engaging faculty across campus and using research methods and theoretical frameworks across disciplines. BDHSC also leverages and expands existing partnerships with community and industry to identify their needs in Big Data health analytics, as well as engage them to best use their data to improve operational efficiencies and identify viable and sustainable research collaborations.
Affiliated Centers and Labs
Center for GIScience and Geospatial Big Data
Housed within the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, the Center for GIScience and Geospatial Big Data (CeGIS) conducts interdisciplinary research and education on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) and Spatial Data Science including GIS, geospatial big data, remote sensing, spatial analysis, statistics, and modeling, geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), spatial computing, geo-visualization, and cyberGIS.
Innovation Think Tank Lab at USC
Located in the heart of Columbia, SC, the USC Innovation Think Tank (ITT) Lab is a fully-equipped environment for research, innovation, and experiential learning available for students, researchers, and professionals to work, study, and create solutions to real world problems. The USC ITT Lab is the first Innovation Think Tank Lab affiliated with a U.S. university, as part of Siemens Healthineers’ global network of Innovation Think Tank Labs.
Geoinformation and Big Data Research Laboratory (GIBD) at Penn State
The Geoinformation and Big Data Research Laboratory (GIBD) in the Department of Geography, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University conducts interdisciplinary research on geospatial big data analytics, spatial computing, geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), and cyberGIS within the area of data- and computing-intensive GIScience.
Rural and Minority Health Research Center
The Rural and Minority Health Research Center’s mission is to illuminate and address the health and social inequities experienced by rural and minoritized populations to promote the health of all through policy-relevant research and advocacy.
Social Media Insights Lab
To better understand the increasingly important role of social media in society and our lives, the Social Media Insights Lab was established. The facility uses advanced artificial intelligence software that processes billions of indexed resources across all forms of structured and unstructured data to generate, visualize, and interpret data. The Lab monitors social media in South Carolina and closely follows news as it breaks to see what drives social media conversations in our state.
South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare
The South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare supports and develops sustainable rural and primary care education and health care delivery in South Carolina through clinical practice, training and research. The center strives for a future where all South Carolinians have access to high value, quality health care.
South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality
The South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality is committed to engaging in innovative research that will enhance the quality of health for individuals in South Carolina and around the world. Our mission is to contribute to advances in healthcare and population health through rigorous research, education, community engagement, and policy advocacy.