# Whole Communities–Whole Health **Domain:** Austin Research / Programs **Doc Type:** Research entity **Source basis:** Supplied research cluster with linked references; see the [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|evidence map]] for verification scope. **Whole Communities–Whole Health** is the UT community-engaged longitudinal health research program used in the master addendum as an example of enrolled human observation. UT’s program history records IRB approval and the start of its five-year cohort in 2021. The supplied article describes wearables, smartphones, household environmental sensors, surveys, and returning information to participants. These repeated observations support an evolving picture of health and environment. This is a useful comparison with population surveillance because participation and the observational unit differ. The master’s enrollment figures are historical snapshots, not a current total. The program’s role here is an explicit example of consented longitudinal sensing, alongside other forms of [[wiki/Biosurveillance|biosurveillance]]. ## Connected entries [[wiki/Biosurveillance|Biosurveillance]] · [[wiki/Environmental Pathogen Surveillance|Environmental Pathogen Surveillance]] · [[wiki/Syndromic Surveillance|Syndromic Surveillance]] · [[wiki/State Estimation|State Estimation]] · [[wiki/Digital Twin|Digital Twin]] · [[wiki/IARPA MOSAIC|IARPA MOSAIC]] ## Sources and corpus context - [[research/The Austin Executable Loop|The Austin Executable Loop — master document]] - [UT — Introduction to Whole Communities Whole Health](https://cloud.wikis.utexas.edu/wiki/display/WCWH/Introduction%2Bto%2BWhole%2BCommunities%2BWhole%2BHealth) **Cluster:** [[wiki/Austin Executable Loop|Austin Executable Loop]] · [[wiki/Austin Research Evidence Map|Austin Research Evidence Map]] <!-- BEGIN AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD --> ## Enrolled longitudinal sensing as a comparison The surveillance-field essay uses this program to identify a local, consented route to repeated human and household observations. Its importance is methodological and procedural: continuous sensing can support a changing model of health and environment, while enrollment and participant relationships define how that information is obtained and returned. The essay’s end-of-2024 enrollment figures remain a dated snapshot. Compare [[wiki/IARPA MOSAIC|IARPA MOSAIC]] for another participant-research setting and [[wiki/Population State Estimation|Population State Estimation]] for systems with collective observational units. **Follow:** [[wiki/Observation and Human-Subject Research|Observation and Human-Subject Research]] · [[wiki/Population State Estimation|Population State Estimation]] · [[wiki/Austin Surveillance Field|Austin Surveillance Field]] **Source:** [[research/The Austin Surveillance Field|The Austin Surveillance Field]]. <!-- END AUSTIN SURVEILLANCE FIELD -->