Karen Comer presented the recently completed study, Racial Disparities in Incidence and Outcome of Multiple Myeloma, to the Multiple Myeloma Research Group of the IU Precision Health Initiative on Feb. 28. Polis developed social and environmental determinants of health measures using SAVI to support generation and testing of hypotheses that explain differences in the incidence and outcomes of multiple myeloma. Specifically, Polis developed descriptive statistics, age-adjusted incidence and mortality rates and maps, observed survival curves, and conducted spatial autocorrelation and cluster analysis. With support from the Racial Justice Research Fund (RJRF), this multi-disciplinary research is a collaboration with the IU School of Medicine. Additional Polis research team members included Jay Colbert, Jeramy Townsley, and graduate student contributors Akhil Joseph (IU School of Informatics & Computing IUPUI, BioHealth Informatics), Tom Loftus (IU Fairbanks School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management), and Melanie Scheive (IU School of Medicine).