- Co-Investigator
- Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Affiliation: Faculty
Biography
Billie Inbal Nahum-Shani is a Professor at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the director of the data-science for dynamic intervention decision-making center (d3c) at the University of Michigan. Her primary research interest is harnessing adaptive interventions to transform health care. Adaptive interventions address the changing needs of individuals by modifying their treatment based on dynamic information about their state and progress. An important focus of her work is the Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI), a special type of adaptive intervention that leverages powerful mobile and sensing technologies to adapt the delivery of support in real-world settings—in near real-time. Her work is highly multidisciplinary, spanning behavioral health and applied psychology, while also being tightly integrated with advanced research methodology. She developed the Hybrid Experimental Design (HED) to help health scientists optimize the integration of human-delivered (e.g., coaching session) components with digital (e.g., mobile-based) components, which necessitates adaptation on multiple timescales.