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Mission

The UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity is a multidisciplinary data-driven research, education, and advocacy program focused on multiple key areas in the healthcare cybersecurity domain.

By combining the deep clinical knowledge of practicing physicians with the technical expertise of computer science, economics, bioengineering, and political science faculty, we conceptualize, design, and execute impactful projects, events, and campaigns which address relevant questions and produce data, recommendations, and insight that can be used by healthcare delivery organizations, medical device manufacturers, cybersecurity enterprise, and regulators and policymakers to make patient care safer and more secure.

LEARN MORE ABOUT US

The UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity and Microsoft Threat Intelligence have teamed up to spotlight the increasing threat of ransomware attacks on hospitals and clinics with the release of a new Healthcare Ransomware Report. Discover how our research aims to address this growing problem by strengthening the cyber resiliency of our national healthcare system!

Healthcare Ransomware Report

Meet The Co-Directors

Drs. Christian Dameff and Jeff Tully are the founding Co-Directors of the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity. Internationally renowned for their pioneering work on the clinical impacts of cybersecurity attacks and vulnerable medical devices, Dameff and Tully have produced high impact healthcare cybersecurity research and thought leadership for over a decade.

MEET THE TEAM

stefan savage

Faculty Spotlight

Stefan Savage is the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science and Professor in the Systems and Networking Group of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. A MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellow, Professor Savage is a founding faculty member of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity and a Co-Investigator on the Center's $9.5 million ARPA-H Healthcare Ransomare Resiliency and Response Program.

News & Highlights

July 4

Co-Director Dr. Jeff Tully Speaks with NPR's Meghna Chakrabarti About Ransomware's Threat to Healthcare

May 23

Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity Research Referenced in New York Times Reporting

April 10

Latest Research - Ransomware and Associated Cardiac Arrest Outcomes at Adjacent Hospitals

Partner with us as a corporate member for the Center of Healthcare Cybersecurity. For more information, contact Anne O'Donnell at odonnell@ucsd.edu.

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For more information about the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity, email cyberhealth@health.ucsd.edu

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The Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity is supported in part by  The Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation at UC San Diego Health.