Research Data Centers: Wasatch Front Research Data Center

该奖项将支持建立Wasatch前沿研究数据中心（WFRDC），该中心将设在盐湖城的犹他大学。WFRDC将为社会和医学科学家提供一个具有成本效益的、安全的研究设施，在那里他们将有更多的机会获得联邦政府收集的有限统计数据。支持和受益于WFRDC的组织包括犹他大学、犹他州立大学、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的发展，并为西部山间地区的居民、当地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，各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。这将为学术界、公共部门和私营部门创造大量受过技术培训的人才。WFRDC将以更具成本效益的方式提供获取受限数据的途径，这些数据将对来自人口统计学、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（UPDB）中的数据与其他联邦统计记录联系起来。UPDB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的科学家们将解决关于早期生活因素（社会经济、地理、生物医学）的作用及其对以后生活健康的影响的基本问题，以及成人健康的社会经济差异。研究人员将利用医疗保健研究和质量机构的数据，以及十年一次的人口普查和美国社区调查得出的人口估计，解决经济与其成员健康之间相互作用的相关问题。地理学家和空间科学家将使用有限的美国人口普查数据，这些数据提供了小地理区域的数量，以研究空气污染等危害的社会脆弱性及其在促进健康差距方面的作用。WFRDC的科学家还将使用美国人口普查局的各种数据集，研究经济力量如何影响个人和家庭的成果以及社会和经济流动性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.