Randi Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA,FAMI,FACMI

Randi Foraker, PhD, is the Director of the Center for Population Health Informatics (CPHI) at the Institute for Informatics (I²) and a Professor of Medicine within the Division of General Medical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. As director of the CPHI, she aims to improve the health of the community through data and support data access, analytics, and dissemination efforts. Her own work specializes in the design of population-based studies and the integration of electronic health record data with socioeconomic indicators, and her research portfolio has been supported by a combination of governmental and industry grants and contracts. Her most recent research has focused on the application of clinical decision support to complement risk scoring in primary care, cardiology, and oncology.

Dr. Foraker also serves as Director of the Public Health Data and Training Center for the Institute for Public Health. As director of the Data and Training Center, she aims to amplify public health knowledge through data sharing, strategic partnerships with the community, and the training of future public health leaders. During the COVID pandemic, she has served as PI of the COVID umbrella IRB leveraging electronic health record data at Washington University in St. Louis and works closely with investigators who conduct research using data from our COVID Data Commons, which is maintained by I². Dr. Foraker chairs the Epidemiology Strike Force and convenes members of the St. Louis City, St. Louis County, Jefferson County, Franklin County, and St. Charles County Departments of Public Health on a weekly basis along with academic, health system, and business partners to assist with their data architecture, management, and analytic needs during the pandemic and beyond.