UC Berkeley, UCSF launch joint program in computational precision health

Innovative joint program in computational precision health at UC Berkeley and UCSF aims to improve quality and equity of health care The UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Program in Computational Precision Health will enable new and more personalized techniques for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of disease. (iStock photo) The University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, today (Oct. 20, 2021) jointly launched a new, one-of-a-kind program in computational precision health, a significant step toward advancing this new field and, ultimately, improving the quality and equity of health care. The partnership positions the two world-renowned universities at the forefront in creating a new field at the intersection of medicine, statistics and computation. By creating a joint faculty group between UC Berkeley and UCSF, the two universities will simultaneously advance computing and data science with biomedicine and health, enabling solutions that would not have been imagined by either discipline alone. The research of the joint faculty will enable new and more personalized techniques for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of disease. Working together, the two universities will develop new methods for data-driven clinical care, early detection and intervention, new ways to predict outcomes, and new targeted treatments that are both more effective and have fewer side effects.