Learning Health Sciences Research

We are a first-in-the-nation basic science department focused on learning. Our department focuses on research in four main areas to support our overarching goal-improve learning to improve health. Our research programs generate new knowledge to enhance learning at all levels of scale — feeding into the learning loop, the engine of the learning health system. Scientists across multiple disciplines contribute their individual expertise for this common cause. 

Together, we're answering the big questions:

• How do we bring together multiple disciplines to improve health care, to lower health care costs and to create better health?
• How do we most effectively synthesize advances in technology with our growing understanding of social, behavioral and economic sciences?
• How can we advance innovative concepts of teaching and learning, such as competency-based education, for health professionals?
• How does simulation-based training of health professionals improve health care delivery and health outcomes?
• How do we improve the accessibility of biomedical information and rapid sharing of best practices?
• How do we create the infrastructure to implement knowledge and change practice on the ground?