Tiffany Veinot

Professional Title

Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor of Health Equity (SPH), Learning Health Sciences (Medical School)

Department(s)

Information
Michigan Medicine
School of Public Health

About

Tiffany Veinot, MLS, PhD, FACMI is Joan C. Durrance Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan (U-M)’s School of Information. She is also a Full Professor at the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at U-M, and was a Visiting Professor at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences (United Kingdom) in 2023-2024. Veinot's research focuses on “community health informatics,” or the use of information systems and services to improve the health of marginalized populations and reduce health disparities. She has over 110 published, peer-reviewed papers, and her published research has garnered 18 honors and awards for in the health informatics, human-computer interaction, and information science fields. Veinot has held over $15.5 million in extramural research funding as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator. Veinot has also served as co-Investigator for research funding totaling over $6.1million. She is currently PI of a national cluster-randomized controlled trial investigating interventions to prevent complications of hemodialysis care and is co-PI of the CDC’s national Kidney Disease Surveillance System. She is a founding faculty member and former Director of the Masters of Health Informatics (MHI) Program at U-M, which was launched in 2012 and that has
graduated over 300 students. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) and is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology. She was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics in 2022.

Research Interests

social sciences
mixed methods
community-based research
digital studies
LGBTQ
Michigan Medicine
policy
health informatics
health equity