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Collaboration Drives Learning Health Sciences
Uniting experts to advance learning processes and environments.
Working Together for Better Results
Collaboration is at the heart of learning health sciences, a trans-disciplinary field of study that naturally convenes experts that share a common goal: to develop deeper understanding of learning processes and their supporting environments.
A variety of disciplines combine to create the rich intellectual tapestry of our work:
- Behavioral science
- Social and organizational science
- Cognitive science
- Information and computer science
- Industrial and systems engineering
- Other related fields
Collaborations
- As part of a Learning Health System Collaboratory, multidisciplinary researchers working to establish U-M as the academic epicenter for learning health systems.
- The Learning Health Systems Journal is an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal published by DLHS in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons. It includes computable knowledge publications, research reports, experience reports, technical reports, policy analyses, briefs and commentaries.
- The Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) Learning Community is a DLHS convened learning community across Washtenaw and Livingston Counties. OHCA developed HeartSafe Home, a community intervention to raise awareness and capacity to respond to sudden cardiac arrest occurring in the home across underserved minority communities in Washtenaw and Livingston counties.
Featured News & Stories
Department News
Cassie Turner (HILS PhD 2026) Delivers Commencement Remarks
Congratulations to Cassie Turner for being selected as one of three student speakers to give remarks at Spring Commencement on May 2nd.
Medical School News
Look to Leadership column: When education becomes care
Every person who has ever taught a future healthcare professional will one day, in all likelihood, become a patient. It is one of the quiet truths of health professions education that the work of teaching is never purely academic. It ripples forward in ways we cannot always see, shaping the hands and minds that will one day care for us, our families and our communities.
Department News
HILS PhD Student Haoting Gao Wins OGPS Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award
Congratulations to Haoting Gao for winning the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award!
Department News
In Conversation: Chuck Friedman and Vasa Curcin discuss Learning Health Systems and AI
Professors Friedman and Curcin (Kings College) discuss Learning Health Systems and AI.
Points of Blue
Christian Thurstone, MD, MS, HILS-Online alum: Using practical tools for broad impact
In this article, Christian talks about his experience with the HILS Online MS program and how using what he learned has helped with publishing papers, implementing new programs and addressing behavioral and social health needs.
Medical School News
Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, appointed Assistant Dean for Faculty, Clinical Track
Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, has been appointed assistant dean for faculty, clinical track in the Medical School, effective May 11, 2026. In this role, she will provide leadership as part of the Office of Faculty Affairs on the oversight of clinical track faculty appointments, promotions, and advancement in the Medical School.
