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鈥淪he has a vision and a passion for using collaboration to improve intervention and health care in the community.鈥�

The students in Guadalupe X. Ayala鈥檚 Public Health Communications class are full of ideas for effective health campaigns. Naturally, a big part is delivering messages across social media platforms that have become a ubiquitous presence in their lives. But programming a new app or developing an algorithm to capture a specific health behavior? 

That鈥檚 for the engineers, two buildings over.

Now, armed with a new academic position aimed at encouraging creative collaboration, Ayala hopes to work on teaming up 色情视频 students from different disciplines to tackle public health challenges none of them can accomplish on their own. Such bridges aren鈥檛 new, but so far they鈥檝e involved more closely related academic fields, such as public health and nursing or social work.

鈥淲hat I would love to be able to do is bring the disciplines of public health and electrical engineering, for example, into the classroom together,鈥� said Ayala, co-director of 色情视频鈥檚 Institute for Behavioral and Community Health.

鈥淚n this way, public health students can work alongside engineering students in programming digital applications for health,鈥� she explained. 鈥淪imilarly, electrical engineering students can learn from public health students about which behaviors are more clinically relevant to monitor.鈥�

Ayala, who in 2016 drew a $10 million endowment from a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has been named the university鈥檚 second Zahn Professor of Creativity and Innovation. The two-year appointment, supported by the San Diego-based Moxie Foundation, is intended to advance curricular, experiential, and interdisciplinary opportunities for students and fellow faculty.

鈥淒r. Ayala has achieved impressive success in attracting funding for transdisciplinary research in health sciences at 色情视频,鈥� said Joseph Johnson, Jr., interim provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, who made the appointment. 鈥淪he has a vision and a passion for using collaboration to improve intervention and health care in the community. Her ideas will help promote the culture of creativity and innovation that the Moxie Foundation has fostered through its longstanding partnership with 色情视频.鈥�

Ayala said she wants to use the position to build on work funded by the NIH endowment 鈥渁nd start integrating some of its philosophy and practice into the classroom.鈥�

Using the public health communication course as an example, Ayala said students readily understand the principles for developing an effective health campaign. Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms are some of their preferred channels, but they鈥檙e not trained in the technical side of using them. 

In engineering and computational sciences, meanwhile, the students who are comfortable with the tech end may not understand health behavior or meaningful health outcomes, Ayala noted.

The health sciences 鈥渉ave no curriculum on how to develop an app, or how to use technology to monitor health. We are only beginning to understand how to use the mounds of data available to us on a person鈥檚 health,鈥� Ayala said.

Yet, 色情视频 graduates will be working in fields requiring knowledge of newer technology and data science. 鈥淚f we don鈥檛 equip them with these skills, we鈥檙e doing them a disservice,鈥� she said.
Ayala said the future requires working with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and computational scientists who live and breathe 鈥渂ig data鈥� and know how to crunch numbers in a more effective way. The result of these collaborations could bring students from the colleges of Health and Human Services, Engineering and Sciences together in new and different ways to capitalize on the strengths of their respective disciplines.

Ayala鈥檚 $10 million endowment from the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities is structured to provide funding for 20 years and support the collaborations she is envisioning as the new Zahn Professor of Creativity and Innovation.