Malin Britt Lalich

Nurse,

Informaticist

I work where clinical practice meets research infrastructure, building data pipelines that make what nurses do at the bedside visible in the science that shapes how care gets delivered. Before informatics: an undergraduate degree in sociology and urban studies, a year in landscape architecture, seven years in IT support, and practicing as a nurse.

Each discipline taught me a different question:

What structures shape outcomes? What does it take to design at scale without losing the local? How do you translate between people who think in code and people who think in care?

Informatics is the practice where those questions converge.

  • My research builds the data infrastructure that learning health systems run on, turning bedside clinical observation into research-ready evidence.

  • I occasionally take photographs. The hobby has always been part of how I think, about light, about scale, and about what shows up in the frame and what doesn't.

  • Anemones, airports, libraries, paintings (from alley murals to museum galleries), architecture (especially Gothic and derelict), tea, beach combing, traveling with my family, walks by water, and live music at storied venues. Oh, and horizons.

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