Noehealani Antolin, William Porter, Kavita Batra, Ana L. Reyes, Blessing Imade, Selam Ayele, and Deborah A. Kuhls (all Medicine) presented a poster titled, "Toward a Comprehensive, Interdisciplinary Road User Data System: A Methodological Framework for Linking Traffic Safety and Medical Datasets," at the UNLV 2026 Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on Jan. 28, 2026.
The poster emphasizes the need for integrated data systems that connect traffic safety and medical records to better understand crash factors, injury outcomes, and healthcare utilization. It presents a proposed framework centered on data governance, standardization, secure infrastructure, and robust record linkage methods. Together, this approach could improve how traffic and medical datasets are linked and used to support more accurate, reproducible research on crash-related injuries and health system impacts.
