Health Data and Analytics Challenge (HDAC)

The Health Data and Analytics Challenge (HDAC) provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to analyze real-world datasets, detect population health differences, identify gaps in access that may affect health outcomes, and recommend possible interventions to improve health and the quality of services in various communities.

The Health Data and Analytics Challenge builds on the success of the Health Equity Data Science Challenge, which started in 2024. HDAC is expected to become an annual event and will produce data-driven solutions to pressing health issues. HDAC will showcase Notre Dame’s data science student pipeline to a panel of judges from industry, government, and academia. In collaboration with the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society and the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health, HDAC will amplify the mission of BELS to develop future generations of leaders who are equipped to advance human health through multidisciplinary teams, tools, and techniques.

HDAC is led by Principal Investigator Katie Liu, assistant director of research programs for the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, and Prakash Nallathamby, associate director of research for the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health and an assistant professor of the practice.