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The 2015-2017 picture for University of Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences is a 17-PI network with 13 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Medicine as the leading field (33% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels), Genetics as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels), and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology as the leading topic (6% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The leading PI names are Rupa S. Valdez (11.9 weighted works; Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, Electronic Health Records Systems). The clearest collaboration lines are Nolan A. Wages and Mark R. Conaway (4 shared works, weight 2.2); Jennifer M. Lobo and Min‐Woong Sohn (2 shared works, weight 2). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 2.2, around Genetics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, led by Stephen S. Rich, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Z. Jennie; group 2 with 5 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 7, around Oncology, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Clinical Psychology, led by Jennifer M. Lobo, Héctor E. Alcalá, Rajesh Balkrishnan.