The Briefs are written and edited by Nripendra Acharya, whose research has centered on a recurring problem: constructing clear, measurable frameworks for concepts that resist easy measurement.
Nripendra’s published works include biomedical research in the proceedings of the AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, along with industry writing and whitepapers on AI and digital banking.
“A little over 15 years ago, the final report produced by the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health identified health equity as a key criterion for social and economic policies and initiatives, which paralleled the growing awareness within the United States that medical care alone cannot address health disparities without an understanding of the fundamental role of social factors on health. However, given the multi-domain and dynamic nature of its component factors, along with the complex pathways in which these factors affect health outcomes, social determinants of health (SDOH) can be challenging to assess and articulate in a clear and measurable framework…”
— Development and Validation of an Individual Socioeconomic Deprivation Index (ISDI) in the NIH’s All of Us Data Network, AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 2024