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Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

A graduate student is creating AI models to analyze smartphone data and detect behavioral changes that could lead to timely intervention and treatment.

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Micronutrient deficiency linked to chronic pain in new study

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Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

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Toxic metals linked to impaired growth in infants in Guatemala

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

A graduate student, pointing to a small digital monitor, explains a research poster to a faculty mentor

Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

Portrait of Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD, standing outside in front of trees.

Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

A young boy kneels on a raised surface and reaches out to hug his mother

Scientists on a quest to prevent asthma by boosting immune system

Onicio Leal Neto, PhD, MPH, stands at a desk next to a table full of people with laptops open in front of them.

Public Health launches first AI summer program

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Smart sensors and smarter health: How AI and wearables are reimagining preventive health care

Fariba Donovan, MD, PhD, holds a pipette in a gloved hand in a lab at the University of Arizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence.

Fariba Donovan works to keep “The Last of Us” in fictional realm

Student explains adaptive foot pedal prototype to professor in Health Sciences Design makerspace

Professor’s teaching philosophy builds confidence with technology, sparks student creativity

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Phoenix’s Yamoah and Chiamvimonvat make a great team

Elizabeth Borden, PhD, holding her 3-year-old daughter, Miriam

Taking on cancer in the lab and at the clinic

Kacey Ernst, PhD, holds her hands at her chest while talking to students.

Kacey Ernst keeps tackling pressing public health issues

Two University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers look at a microscope image of immune responses to tumor antigens on a computer monitor

Developing the personalized future of cancer treatment

Terry A. Badger, PhD, RN, stands outside near the University of Arizona College of Nursing sign.

Nursing’s Terry A. Badger devoted to helping others