Timothy Dye

Discipline: Community & Preventive Medicine
Focus: Social Science & Technology
Email: mailto:Timothy_Dye@urmc.rochester.edu
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The dynamics of human health are largely interactions of social and biological factors. For too long technology has neglected the incredible impact of social factors on how people think about their health, how they maintain it, and what they do when they need help maintaining it. We need to keep social science at the center of the development and evaluation process to keep us from straying beyond a clear focus on user-oriented technologies to improve health. To do anything else could at best result in an irrelevant product and, at worst, result in catastrophe. Further, the mere introduction of personal and community health technologies creates a new cultural dimension which requires systematic inquiry to help us better understand its potential impact.

Biography

Timothy Dye is Chief of the Division of Public Health Practice and Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester. Both a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist by training, Dye concentrates on the blending of qualitative and quantitative methods in assessing local health needs and services. Dye's international work has focused upon the social epidemiology of maternal and child health and community health informatics in India, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Kenya, and Northern Ireland. Dye is the PI of an NIH-funded project to develop community health informatics training and research infrastructure in collaboration with the LINCOS project of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic, and also is PI of a CDC-funded English- and Spanish-language distance-learning program in maternal and child health epidemiology. Dye has served as a consultant to several states and countries in the development of perinatal information systems. Dye received a PhD in Anthropology and an MS in Epidemiology from the University of Buffalo, an MPA in Development Administration and an MA in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, where he was a National Resource Fellow in Hindi and South Asian Studies.

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