Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences is a 67-PI network with 119 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Medicine as the leading field (31% of slots across 40 PIs; 40 labels), General Health Professions as the leading subfield (8% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Child Nutrition and Water Access as the leading topic (2% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Rupa S. Valdez (36.5 weighted works; Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Health Literacy and Information Accessibility). The strongest pairings are Nolan A. Wages and Gina R. Petroni (19 shared works, weight 10.4); Melissa A. Little and Rebecca A. Krukowski (18 shared works, weight 10.3). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 8 internal connections, weight 34, around Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oncology, Surgery, led by Jennifer M. Lobo, Rajesh Balkrishnan, Victor M. Zaydfudim.