Division of Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE)

This program investigates the effectiveness, safety, and appropriate use of marketed drugs and vaccines. Activities focus on generation of new knowledge through investigator-initiated grants that analyze real-world data, and development of better analytic methods to perform pharmacoepidemiologic research. We lead several distributed data networks to support therapeutics research and surveillance programs.

We lead public-private partnerships between academic centers, health care organizations, and the traditional public health community focusing on the identification and reporting of notifiable infectious diseases and on HIV prevention and sexual health promotion. Our ongoing initiatives aim to enhance surveillance, reporting, prevention, and management of serious infections in hospitals and communicable diseases within the broader population and to improve the implementation of preexposure prophylaxis across a variety of health care delivery settings.

Our vision is to build an internationally recognized program that utilizes cutting-edge innovations in health information technology to improve how epidemiologists, researchers, clinicians, and other healthcare workers share, use and understand health-related data. We facilitate population health research by leveraging existing data resources and harnessing emerging technologies.