Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics
The Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics is an e-Health innovation hub, centred at the University of Manchester, for England’s Northwest Region.
Founded in 2004 with funding from the NWDA and supported by the University of Manchester, NIBHI now has a portfolio of grants in excess of £25M and as a direct result employs around 40 staff from a broad range of disciplines including: BioStatistics; Epidemiology; Software Engineering & Computer Science; Health- and Bio-Informatics; and Public Health Research, Sociology and Management.
Mission
“To harness computational thinking for public health benefit”
This mission builds on the University of Manchester’s long history at the forefront of Computer Science, alongside the largest medical school in Europe, in collaboration with centres of excellence in related academia, healthcare and industry in the Northwest Region of England.
Research and Education focus
NIBHI provides a focal point for research, education and learning that:
- Leads path-finding Informatics research for the public health across disciplines, particularly: Health Informatics; Epidemiology; Biostatistics; Bioinformatics; Computer Science; Software Engineering; Health Services Research and the Social Sciences.
- Builds regional capacity in informatics for public health, through research-led training and education.
- Provides a research and learning environment for problem-solving across disciplines – tackling ‘usefully complex’ models of health.
- Develops e-infrastructure for health research, connecting a rich variety of investigators with relevant analytical tools and large-scale aggregations of data, in order to support timely and broad-ranging insights.
- Develop e-Health innovation partnerships with the NHS and industry.
Further information
For more details, see: Northwest Institute for BioHealth Informatics website
Related people
- Iain Buchan (Director)
- John Ainsworth (Deputy Director)
- Amanda Lamb (Operations)
- Georgina Moulton (Education)
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