Public Health Informatics and Information Systems

Dr. Magnuson is an informaticist with an extensive background in public health, teaching, and research. Her fields of experience include academia (faculty and graduate advisor), state public health (health informatics architect), and private industry (genomic informatics system engineer).

Dr. Dixon currently serves as the Director of the Public Health Informatics Program and a Research Scientist at the Regenstrief Institute in addition to his role as Associate Professor at the Indiana University (IU) Fairbanks School of Public Health. Dr. Dixon’s research focuses on applying informatics methods and tools to improve population health in clinical as well as public health organizations. His work leverages clinical and administrative data in electronic health records to measure population health, better understand the determinants of health, examine information flow in the health system, and improve outcomes in individuals and populations. Previously, Dr. Dixon developed health information applications and systems, including tools supporting the standard clinical vocabulary LOINC®, technology supporting the automated reporting of notifiable conditions to public health agencies, and tools for querying large clinical data repositories.