This work undertakes the possibility of using the Web Ontology Language (OWL2) to describe concepts related to "culture", "race", "ethnicity", and "nationality" - concepts that are sometimes misunderstood/misused due to lack of standarization and biases. The project also attempts to link data relating to these broad concepts to health data, like cancer rates, and shed light on understanding health disparaties that impact certain communities.
- Elosia Nguyen
- Tuan Amith, PhD
Design patterns for this ontology model can be found at here
Eloisa Nguyen was supported by the UTHealth- Houston-CPRIT Innovation for Cancer Prevention Research Training Program Summer Undergraduate Fellowship (Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas Grant #RP210042) and the UTHealth-Houston Prevention Research Center.