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Collaboration Drives Learning Health Sciences
Uniting experts to advance learning processes and environments.
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

- 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.

Health Lab
Research finds that adults surveyed had low trust in their health care system to use artificial intelligence responsibly and others had low trust in their health care systems to make sure an AI tool would not harm them.
Department News
Faculty and staff in the Department of Learning Health Sciences and the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) program congratulate HILS Master’s student, Patrick Lewicki for his recent publication about LHS in low resource settings.

Health Lab
University of Michigan researchers found that emergency departments vary widely in how they balance the need to diagnose appendicitis with the potential harms of overtesting.

Medical School News
Helen K. Morgan, M.D., a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and learning health sciences, has been appointed faculty chair-elect for women’s careers in the Medical School. The chair-elect is one of several new Medical School roles developed during the past year that focus on the advancement — and overall thriving — of women pursuing careers in academic medicine and science at Michigan Medicine. Morgan will become chair in January 2026, and after her term is complete, she will serve in an advisory role as post-chair in 2028-29

Department News
The Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS) and the faculty and program staff of the Health Infrastructures and Learning Systems (HILS) congratulate PhD candidate, Katie Lynch on being named a Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) 2025 Champion for Change.
Department News
Congratulations to the Clinical Simulation Center (CSC) team on receiving a full 5-year accreditation from the American College of Surgeons.