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AUHT operates a University Research Center as the institution's primary platform for advancing interdisciplinary research, postdoctoral-level training, research-ethics support, and global academic exchange. The Center comprises four units spanning clinical data, public health, interdisciplinary health research, and research ethics.

Four Institutes

Research Units

① Institute of Medical Big Data and Computational Health

Clinical Data · AI · Decision Support · Quality

This institute focuses on clinical data, AI, computational health, decision support, and quality improvement in real clinical settings. Research integrates clinical experience, healthcare data, and methodology to improve diagnosis, treatment, nursing, prognosis, patient safety, and care quality.

Research Directions

  • Clinical big data and real-world clinical research
  • AI-assisted diagnosis and clinical decision support
  • Clinical prediction models and risk-assessment tools
  • Smart nursing and nursing data science
  • Clinical quality improvement and patient safety
  • Medical imaging, pathology, and multimodal clinical data research
  • Clinical text mining and natural language processing
  • Evaluation of digital tools in clinical management

② Institute of Applied Epidemiology and Lifestyle Medicine

Population · Prevention · Behavior · Community

This institute focuses on population health, disease prevention, health behavior, lifestyle interventions, chronic-disease management, and community public-health practice. Researchers conduct applied work in communities, schools, workplaces, families, healthcare institutions, and specific populations.

Research Directions

  • Applied epidemiology and population-health research
  • Chronic-disease prevention and lifestyle interventions
  • Community health and primary public-health practice
  • Nursing–public health intersections
  • Lifestyle medicine and health-behavior change
  • Nutrition, exercise, and mental-health research
  • Workplace, school, and special-population health promotion
  • Public-health program evaluation and implementation science

③ Institute of Whole-Person Health and Sustainable Wellbeing

Equity · Policy · Wellbeing · Sustainability

This institute treats health not solely as a medical issue, but as the result of social, cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, technological, service-experience, and lifestyle factors. Researchers from diverse disciplines pursue work on health, wellbeing, equity, value, sustainability, service experience, and social change.

Research Directions

  • Health ecology and social determinants of health
  • Health equity, vulnerable populations, and social care
  • Health policy, systems, and public governance
  • Health economics and value evaluation
  • Sustainable wellbeing and quality-of-life research
  • Health communication, health literacy, and public understanding
  • Medical humanities, bioethics, and health culture
  • Health, law, rights, and compliance governance
  • Environment, urbanism, and sustainable health
  • Health service design and social innovation
  • Health tourism, wellness hospitality, and hospitality services research

④ Ethics Committee

Ethics Review · Compliance · Integrity

The Ethics Committee is the University Research Center's research-ethics and academic-compliance body. It provides ethics review, compliance guidance, and integrity support for research involving human subjects, health data, clinical materials, surveys, interviews, sensitive personal information, AI healthcare applications, public-health interventions, and other ethically sensitive work.

Core Functions

  • Ethics review and feedback
  • Research compliance and risk-assessment guidance
  • Academic-integrity training and education
  • Privacy protection and data-governance recommendations
  • Ethics evaluation of AI healthcare applications

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Program

The University Research Center supports doctorate-holders continuing interdisciplinary health research at AUHT. Research directions include healthcare, public health, lifestyle medicine, health data, health policy, value evaluation, and sustainable wellbeing.

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