Session: Big Data Modeling
Sheila Isbell has fifteen years of software development and project management experience with research interests in health informatics, global health, and educational technologies. For the last seven years, she has focused on the research, design, implementation, and deployment of solutions that aggregate disparate data for vulnerable, high-risk, and transient populations, making these data accessible to the both the populations themselves and those who support them.
As a Computing Research Scientist in health informatics she has contributed to 46 technical reports for stakeholders such as the Georgia Department of Community Health; the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and the Kenyan Ministry of Health. Her work was both technical and strategic in nature, focusing on solutions that considered policy, business processes, and organizational strategy as well as the technological environment. She has presented work at conferences such as the Society for Medical Decision Making, Information Communication Technology for Development, and the INFORMS Healthcare Conference. Ms. Isbell’s collaborators include Emory University, Children’s Hospital of Atlanta, local clinics, and state health departments.