VADA Program Summer School

Jun 20, 2022

The 2022 VADA Program Summer School is being hosted online by the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria. We welcome you to the Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Summer School 2022: Data Science and AI in Public Health Informatics.

The Summer School is available on Zoom from Monday, June 20, 2022 through Wednesday, June 22, 2022.

Registration is free and available here.

The Calendar of events is available here:
2022 VADA Calendar

Click to access the VADA Summer School Program 2022

If you have any questions about the event, please direct them to:
Lois Holizki or Sasha Zinovich, Co-coordinators @ vadasummerschool@uvic.ca

Most sessions will be recorded and available on the School of Health Information Science YouTube Channel

VADA Program Information Session

Dec 7, 2020

The VADA Program will be hosting an information session for any faculty or students who are interested in joining the programs next intake in September 2021. Registration information can be found here

Information Session Poster

Information Session: VADA Program Student & Faculty Information Session – Bannatyne Campus

Jan 15, 2020

January 15, 2019
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Room 403, Brodie Centre, Bannatyne Campus, University of Manitoba

The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program trains health, health informatics, and computational science graduate students to translate complex health data into insights that can be used to improve the health of populations and support health care decision-making.

The VADA Program welcomes interested faculty and graduate students to learn about how they can get involved and funded through the program.

Register through this link by January 13.

Information Session: VADA Program Student & Faculty Information Session – University of Victoria

Jan 10, 2020

Student & Faculty Information Session

January 10, 2019
9:30 am – 10:30 am
HSD A264, University of Victoria

The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program trains health, health informatics, and computational science graduate students to translate complex health data into insights that can be used to improve the health of populations and support health care decision-making.

The VADA Program welcomes interested faculty and graduate students to learn about how they can get involved and funded through the program.

Register through this link by January 6.

Information Session: VADA Program Student & Faculty Information Session – Fort Garry Campus

Jan 8, 2020

The Visual and Automated Disease Analytics (VADA) Program trains health, health informatics, and computational science graduate students to translate complex health data into insights that can be used to improve the health of populations and support health care decision-making.

The VADA Program welcomes interested faculty and graduate students to learn about how they can get involved and funded through the program.

Register through this link by January 6.

VADA Program Orientation

Sep 27, 2019

The VADA Program will be hosting an orientation session for all faculty and students on September 27th at both University of Victoria and University of Manitoba. This orientation is to introduce (or reintroduce) faculty and students to each other and the program, expectations of faculty and students as well as supports that are available to facilitate research excellence.

Foundations of Disease Analytics Course

Sep 6, 2019

The foundations of disease analytics course is now in session for the 2019/20 year. Course dates will be:

• September 6
• September 20
• October 4
• October 18
• November 1
• November 22
• January 10
• January 24
• February 7
• February 14
• March 6
• March 20
• April 3

VADA Program Info Session

Feb 1, 2019

The NSERC VADA CREATE program is a graduate training program in Visual and Automated Disease Analytics. We are hosting an information session to inform the University at large about how Faculty and Graduate Students can get involved and funded through the VADA program. 

Date: February 1st 2019

Time: 10:30-11:30 AM

Place: Room A250 Human and Social Development Building – University of Victoria

Event Poster

VADA Program Info Session

Jan 21, 2019

The NSERC VADA CREATE program is a graduate training program in Visual and Automated Disease Analytics. We are hosting an information session to inform the University at large about how Faculty and Graduate Students can get involved and funded through the VADA program. 

Date: January 21st 2019

Time: 1:30-2:30 PM

Place: Room 239 St. John’s College

Event Poster

VADA Program Application Deadline

Mar 29, 2019

The application period for the VADA Program is now open and  deadline this year is March 29^th 2019. Applications and terms of reference for students can be found here while those for faculty can be found here.

2019 VADA Program Summer School

Jun 10, 2019

The dates for the 2019 VADA Program Summer School will be June 10^th – 14^th 2019 and it will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation.

Stay tuned for more information on programming and registration.

2019 Information Technology & Communications in Health Conference

Feb 14, 2019

From Research to Practice: Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes with Health Information Technology

February 14–17, 2019
Delta Ocean Pointe Resort
Victoria, BC, Canada

Improving Usability, Safety and Patient Outcomes with Health Information Technology is the working theme for the 2019 international conference being held in Victoria, BC, Canada.

Health information technologies are revolutionizing and streamlining healthcare and their uptake is rising dramatically. The variety and range of technologies and software applications is considerable and there is increasing demand for implementation of healthcare IT in hospitals, clinics, homes and in the virtual space of mHealth, pervasive healthcare and social media. However, to effectively implement these technologies scientific research and industrial and governmental supports must be strongly in place in order to transform health care and build capacity at the regional, national and global levels.

The conference will take a multi-perspective view about what is needed in order to move technology along to real sustained and widespread use in moving research findings and approaches into practice. Solutions range from improvements in usability and training, to need for new and improved design of information systems, user interfaces and interoperable solutions, to governmental policy, mandates, initiatives and need for regulation. In addition, greater interaction will be needed among industrial, governmental and academic partners.

VADA Program Newsletter – October 2018

Oct 3, 2018

The VADA Program has some exciting news – the latest edition of the newsletter has been released. In includes summaries on this years’ cohort as well as our new faculty and information on the internships that our first cohort of students completed.

VADA Program Newsletter – October 2018

VADA Program 2018 Summer School

Jul 10, 2018

The inaugural VADA Program Summer School ran July 10^th – 13^th 2018 and welcomed students, faculty and a wide range of speakers.  For an overview of the summer school program click here.