Our Collaborations

Our PHICOR team is the engine behind our AIMINGS center which serves as the AI center for The Nutrition for Precision Health (NPH) Consortium. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and powered by the All of Us Research Program, the NPH Consortium consists of 14 clinics and Centers across the US. Collectively, the NPH Consortium's mission is to develop algorithms that predict individual responses to nutrition. PHICOR and its AIMINGS Center will develop state-of-the-art AI, machine learning (ML), Big Data methods, and other data science approaches to better understand and improve diet and nutrition.

Led by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NIH and National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), IMAG is a modeling and analysis of biomedical, biological and behavioral systems group. The MSM Consortium is a community of researchers participating in activities and research projects focused on or related to multiscale modeling of biomedical, biological and behavioral systems. PHICOR has been a leading member of both IMAG and MSM since 2016.

PHICOR has been part of the MIDAS Network since 2007, which is led by scientists and practitioners. MIDAS is a global network that develops and utilizes various types of models (computational, statistical, mathematical) to improve the understanding of infectious disease dynamics. PHICOR has been part of the MIDAS Network since 2007.

PHICOR is a founding partner and has served as technical advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Sports & Society Program’s Project Play consortium since 2016. Project Play is a consortium of businesses, federal agencies, foundations, major sports leagues and associations and researchers that work to identify gaps in access and quality in sports for young people and empower leading organizations to fill them. As founding members, PHICOR’s VPOP models were utilized to better understand the impact of increasing youth sport participation. The model’s results are used to show stakeholders the benefits of more youth meeting the CDC’s physical activity guidelines.

PHICOR has been involved with the SPACES consortium since 2015. Created by the US Global Development Lab at USAID in efforts to improve decision making and enhance program interventions, SPACES works together to bring systems approaches, methods, and tools to international development. SPACES also consists of LINC, Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) and ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) as partners, in addition to PHICOR.