The Mobilize Center: Accelerating Movement Science with Big Data

INTRODUCTION Mobility is essential for human health. Unfortunately, many musculoskeletal conditions, including cerebral palsy, osteoarthritis, running injuries, obesity, and stroke, limit mobility at a great cost to quality of life and healthy aging. The proliferation of wearable devices that monitor human activity is generating unprecedented quantities of data on human movement, behaviors, and health. Mobility data is also being collected daily by hundreds of clinical centers and research laboratories around the world. The mission of the Mobilize Center (mobilize.stanford.edu), an NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence, is to overcome the data science challenges posed by mobility big data and improve human movement across the wide range of conditions that limit mobility. In this talk we will provide an overview of the Center’s research, training, and dissemination activities and share specific ways in which the biomechanics community can become engaged.