Student Investigator: Jaxon Wu (KSAS – History of SC/MED/TECH)

Mentors: Jonathan Weiner (SPH), Chintan Pandya (SPH)

Socioeconomic inequalities have increasingly become recognized as a significant contributor to health disparities in the United States. To improve health equity at individual and population level, the health care sector must play a pivotal role in identifying and addressing the socioeconomic risk factors and needs of individuals. Through identifying those who are most socioeconomically vulnerable, we develop a social needs measure that enhances risk stratification of a population to further advance state-of-the-art predictive modelling tools for high-risk case detection that benefits care management as well. The end result of our project will have direct benefits for the inclusion of social and behavioral determinants of health data in the Johns Hopkins ACG software.