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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
Medical School News
Michigan Medicine to host inaugural Learning Health System Summit on Oct. 9
The Michigan Medicine Learning Health System Summit on Oct. 9 will bring together leaders, clinicians, researchers, educators, staff, and learners from across the organization to explore what it will take to fully realize the vision.
Medical School News
Voting victories: Medical School Vice Dean Edje enjoys election wins at AMA meeting
Louito C. Edje, M.D., MHPE, FAAFP, the Medical School’s vice dean for medical education, emerged victorious in elections on two fronts at the recent American Medical Association (AMA) meeting in Chicago, including chair-elect of the AMA Council on Medical Education
Medical School News
Celebrating outstanding teaching and research at the 2026 Endowment for Basic Sciences Awards
The 2026 Endowment for Basic Sciences Awards recognized nine faculty and nine research staff members for their accomplishments in teaching and research.
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!
