Report summary

The 2021-2023 picture for Boston University Department of Global Health is a 17-PI network with 23 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (37% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), Infectious Diseases as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels), and Global Maternal and Child Health as the leading topic (8% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Andrew Stokes (14.5 weighted works; COVID-19 and healthcare impacts, Climate Change and Health Impacts); Brooke E Nichols (13 weighted works; COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research). The strongest pairings are Gesine Meyer‐Rath and Brooke E Nichols (8 shared works, weight 3.5); Jacob Bor and Andrew Stokes (8 shared works, weight 3.5). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 19 internal connections, weight 37.1, around Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology, led by Andrew Stokes, Brooke E Nichols, Jacob Bor.