Alex Rich is a third year Health Informatics PhD student researching pharmaceutical manufacturer influence in American healthcare. His work in visual analysis and communication is heavily influenced by his previous career as a special operations pilot and crash investigator. His projects seek to bring some of the intuitive visual displays of the cockpit into the world of healthcare.
After leading one of the winning teams at the US Department of Health and Human Services “Data for Opioids” code-a-thon in 2017, he has continued to approach the US opioid crisis through the lens of aviation crash investigation. He believes that solutions begin with presenting health professionals with better tools for viewing the flood of information around them.
Visualizing the Opioid Flood from a rich on Vimeo.
