Research Data Centers: Wasatch Front Research Data Center

研究数据中心：瓦萨奇前沿研究数据中心

• 批准号: 1800563
• 负责人: Lori Kowaleski-Jones
• 金额: $ 29.86万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1800563&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Data; Centers; Wasatch; Front

This award will support the establishment of the Wasatch Front Research Data Center (WFRDC), which will be based at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The WFRDC will provide social and medical scientists a cost-effective, secure research facility where they will have greater access to restricted statistical data collected by the federal government. The organizations that will support and benefit from the WFRDC include the University of Utah, Utah State University, Brigham Young University, Huntsman Cancer Institute (a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center), departments within the Utah state government, and the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. The WFRDC will facilitate collaborations between scientists in Utah and the Intermountain region. It will allow researchers to explore novel questions in areas such as health, medical care, work force trends, population dynamics, and environmental issues. The insights created from these investigations will advance scientific knowledge and provide benefits to residents in the Intermountain West, local government agencies, and the federal statistical system. The long-term effects of the WFRDC will include enhanced educational and employment development, collaborations between institutions and disciplines, and better informed government agencies. Researchers and students receiving training through the WFRDC will promote workforce development and provide opportunities for students to gain expertise in data science and other novel methods. This will create a large pool of technically trained individuals who will make contributions to the academic, public, and private sectors.The WFRDC will provide more cost-effective access to restricted data that will be of value to scientists from fields that include demography, sociology, economics, human development, geography, public health, and epidemiology. The WFRDC plans to link the data contained within the Utah Population Database (UPDB) to other federal statistical records. The UPDB holds one of the largest research databases in the world linking genealogies with medical records. WFRDC scientists will address fundamental questions about the role of early life factors (socioeconomic, geographic, biomedical) and their influence on health later in life as well as socioeconomic differentials in adult health. Using data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality along with population estimates derived from the decennial census and the American Community Survey, researchers will address questions related to the interaction between the economy and the health of its members. Geographers and spatial scientists will use restricted U.S. Census data that provide counts of small geographic areas to study social vulnerability to hazards such as air pollution and its role in promoting health disparities. WFRDC scientists also will examine how economic forces affect individual and family outcomes and social and economic mobility using various datasets from the U.S. Census Bureau.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将支持建立瓦萨奇前沿研究数据中心（WFRDC），该中心将设在盐湖的犹他州大学。WFRDC将为社会和医学科学家提供一个具有成本效益的安全研究设施，他们将有更多的机会获得联邦政府收集的限制统计数据。 将支持WFRDC并从中受益的组织包括犹他州大学、犹他州州立大学、杨百翰大学、亨茨曼癌症研究所（国家癌症研究所综合癌症中心）、犹他州政府部门和犹他州大学健康科学中心。 WFRDC将促进犹他州和山间地区科学家之间的合作。它将使研究人员能够探索健康，医疗保健，劳动力趋势，人口动态和环境问题等领域的新问题。从这些调查中产生的见解将促进科学知识，并为Intermountain West的居民、地方政府机构和联邦统计系统提供好处。WFRDC的长期影响将包括加强教育和就业发展，机构和学科之间的合作，以及更好地了解政府机构。通过WFRDC接受培训的研究人员和学生将促进劳动力发展，并为学生提供获得数据科学和其他新方法专业知识的机会。 这将创造一个技术上训练有素的人才库，他们将为学术、公共和私营部门做出贡献，WFRDC将提供更具成本效益的访问限制数据的途径，这些数据对来自人口学、社会学、经济学、人类发展、地理学、公共卫生和流行病学等领域的科学家有价值。 WFRDC计划将犹他州人口数据库（UCB）中的数据与其他联邦统计记录联系起来。该研究所拥有世界上最大的研究数据库之一，将家谱与医疗记录联系起来。 WFRDC科学家将解决有关早期生活因素（社会经济，地理，生物医学）的作用及其对生活后期健康的影响以及成人健康的社会经济差异的基本问题。 使用来自医疗保健研究和质量机构的数据，沿着来自十年一次的人口普查和美国社区调查的人口估计，研究人员将解决与经济及其成员的健康之间的相互作用有关的问题。 地理学家和空间科学家将使用有限的美国人口普查数据，提供小地理区域的数量，以研究社会对空气污染等危害的脆弱性及其在促进健康差距方面的作用。WFRDC的科学家们还将使用美国人口普查局的各种数据集来研究经济力量如何影响个人和家庭的结果以及社会和经济流动性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。