Check out the webinar video and materials. A University of Maryland-led research team will give key insights and next steps in an effort using big data and machine learning to target a U.S. opioid epidemic that claimed 42,000-plus lives in 2016. The discussion will be via a 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 webinar, "Promoting Better Pain Management Outcomes: Precision Decision Support for Opioid Prescribing." It’s hosted by the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS) at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. 

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — The gender pay gap, widely cited for full-time workers in the United States as women earning 79 percent of what men earn, drew 100 businesses to sign on to the White House Equal Pay Pledge in 2016. It also prompted professor Margrét Bjarnadóttir at the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — On Women’s Equality Day last week at the White House, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, General Motors and other big U.S. companies signed an “Equal Pay Pledge” to close the gender pay gap for their employees. On the same day, a pair of states passed laws for the same objective — to eliminate the often-cited statistic of U.S.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — A team of Icelandic researchers went looking for answers after the 2008 financial crisis and found a "cross-ownership monster" lurking in the country's banking system.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST — By using advanced baseball statistics, it's possible to predict the monetary value of baseball players' future contributions — and avoid awarding massive multiyear contracts to players whose best days are behind them, according to new research from the Robert H.

Research by Margrét Bjarnadóttir Merging Prediction Modeling with Optimization to Improve Appointment Outcomes

Potential pitfalls of machine learning include bias and unequal benefits. In healthcare, these stakes are especially serious.

Women still only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. That wage gap drives much of Margrét Bjarnadóttir’s research, which she discusses in a recent Q&A on ThriveGlobal. 

In our video series, Maryland Smith experts share their insights on the broadly reaching impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.

Equal pay for equal work is a simple notion, but surprisingly hard to implement without buy-in from upper management and quantitative tools for decision support.