Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (NCHSI)

Through an approach known as Centralized Health Data Warehouse, NCHSI extends health statistics beyond simply using the statistics and computer as a tool for computation to a process of knowledge acquisition, storage, retrieval, linkage, analyses, and representations of health, human and other related data. The Center, housed in the School of Community Health Sciences, provides technical capacity and collaborative opportunities for researchers and health professionals in Nevada on statistical methodology, sophisticated database design, data collection, data management, data analysis, data dissemination and data presentation.

The core staff at the Center includes Dr. Wei Yang, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, who also served as the former Nevada State Chief Biostatistician and Director of State Center for Health Data and Research at Nevada State Health Division; and other fulltime or part-time researchers including Biostatisticians, Epidemiologists and Programmers, who with extensive experience in statistical analysis, data management and programming including certified as Professional Statistical Analysis System (SAS) Programmers.

To provide powerful data management and analysis capacity, as well as to protect confidential and human subject information, the Center is equipped with high capacity PCs and security coded door locks and high capacity data processing server with HIPAA compliant.

The core projects and databases the Center is currently working on include Community Health Needs Assessment and Healthy Community Interactive Map (www.HealthMapNevada.org), Nevada Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and Nevada Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

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Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (NCHSI)

School of Public Health, Mailstop: 274
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
Phone: (775) 682-7094
Email: weiyang@unr.edu