Dr. Yulin Hswen is a Computational Epidemiologist is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. She also holds a Faculty position in the Innovation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hswen completed her Doctoral training as a social and computational epidemiology at Harvard University, where her research focused on leveraging big data to uncover hidden social determinants and patterns of disease.
Dr. Hswen is in the pursuit of detecting uncomfortable truths. Dr. Hswen’s current research seeks to identify authentic attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that influence population behavior and health. Through the collection of unconventional and underground online social networks, Dr. Hswen captures unfiltered conversations to further understand the connections between social experiences and health.
Dr. Hswen also is keen to develop and test new methods to capture informal online data sources towards generating population health insights that can be used to predict the onset and course of various diseases and public health threats. Dr. Hswen’s research involves the design and development of digital surveillance methods, as well as novel tools that can transform public practice and influence health policies.
Dr. Hswen has received awards and competitive funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, The Embassy of France, Harvard University, the Weatherhead Center, and the National Institutes of Health for her work in the field of social and computational epidemiology. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Nature Communications, Nature NJP Digital Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, Preventive Medicine, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research, and has been featured in NYTimes, Forbes, ABC News, USA Today, Washington Post, Nature, Fast Company, Bloomberg, IEEE Spectrum and the Wall Street Journal.
Personal Interests
Drawn-out dinners, strategic suprises, extraordinary excursions, finessing forums
Favorite things
Lingering laydowns, Jalapenos, Canada.
Hobbies
Collectionneur de montres
