A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College.
A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College.
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10.3390/ijerph20064775
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2023-03-08
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Adunyah, Samuel E
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Wang, Qingguo;Gupta, Vibhuti;Cao, Aize;Singhal, Ashutosh;Gary, Todd;Adunyah, Samuel E
随着不同领域的数据呈指数级增长，有效利用大数据的能力变得越来越重要。然而，在数据科学领域，包括非裔美国人在内的少数群体的代表性严重不足。鉴于少数群体服务机构在增强数据科学劳动力的多样性和将数据科学应用于健康差距方面的战略作用，国家少数群体健康差距研究所(NIMHD)于2021年9月向少数群体机构的六个研究中心(RCMI)提供资金，以提高它们的数据科学能力，并促进与数据科学家的合作。梅哈里医学院(MMC)是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学(HBCU)，是六名获奖者之一。本文总结了NIMHD在MMC所做的努力，包括向合作研究小组提供微型补助金，进行调查以了解社区的需求以指导项目实施，以及数据科学培训以提高RCMI调查人员、工作人员、住院医生和研究生的数据分析技能。这项研究具有创新性，因为它解决了提高MMC RCMI项目的数据科学能力、建立一支多元化的数据科学队伍以及发展RCMI和MMC新成立的应用计算科学学院之间的合作的迫切需求。本文介绍了这个由NIMHD资助的项目的进展情况，清楚地表明了它对当地社区的积极影响。
As data grows exponentially across diverse fields, the ability to effectively leverage big data has become increasingly crucial. In the field of data science, however, minority groups, including African Americans, are significantly underrepresented. With the strategic role of minority-serving institutions to enhance diversity in the data science workforce and apply data science to health disparities, the National Institute for Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) provided funding in September 2021 to six Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) to improve their data science capacity and foster collaborations with data scientists. Meharry Medical College (MMC), a historically Black College/University (HBCU), was among the six awardees. This paper summarizes the NIMHD-funded efforts at MMC, which include offering mini-grants to collaborative research groups, surveys to understand the needs of the community to guide project implementation, and data science training to enhance the data analytics skills of the RCMI investigators, staff, medical residents, and graduate students. This study is innovative as it addressed the urgent need to enhance the data science capacity of the RCMI program at MMC, build a diverse data science workforce, and develop collaborations between the RCMI and MMC’s newly established School of Applied Computational Science. This paper presents the progress of this NIMHD-funded project, which clearly shows its positive impact on the local community.