Big Data Analytics Emerging Scholar (e-Scholar) Program for Minority Students

少数民族学生大数据分析新兴学者（e-Scholar）计划

• 批准号: 10554786
• 负责人: Xiaoming Li
• 金额: $ 31.33万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-08 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10554786
• 关键词: Academic Training; Active Learning; Address; Allergic Disease; Area; Bachelor' s Degree; Big Data; Big Data Methods; Biological Sciences; Businesses; COVID-19; Career Mobility; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Competence; Complement; Complex; Data; Data Science; Development; Diagnosis; Diverse Workforce; Doctor' s Degree; Educational Curriculum; Electronic Health Record; Entrepreneurship; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Exposure to; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Future; Genomics; Goals; HIV; Health; Health Care Research; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Immune System Diseases; Individual; Industry; Infectious Diseases Research; Infrastructure; Knowledge; Manuscripts; Mentors; Methodology; Methods; Mission; Modeling; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Persons; Population; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Race; Records; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scholars Program; Schools; South Carolina; Students; Talents; Technology; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visualization; Wages; Workforce Development; Writing; big-data science; career; college; community engagement; computerized data processing; data acquisition; digital; diverse data; education research; ethnic minority; ethnic minority population; experience; financial incentive; genomic data; graduate student; hands on research; health disparity; health science research; interest; member; minority student; minority undergraduate; peer coaching; population health; programs; public health research; racial minority; racial minority population; recruit; response; responsible research conduct; role model; skills; social media; summer institute; symposium; undergraduate student; wearable device

ABSTRACT With the increase of healthcare-related Big Data, such as electronic health records (EHR), social media, wearable devices, genomic data, and other digital records of information pertinent to individual and population health, Big Data science has brought forth revolutionary advancements in many areas of health sciences, including infectious disease research. However, the potential of Big Data in healthcare research has not been fully realized due to challenges in data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation. One such challenge is the nationwide shortage of a workforce with the necessary knowledge, competencies, and skills of Big Data analytics (BDA), especially a workforce with diverse backgrounds such as racial and ethnic minorities. A promising approach to increase the diversity of the BDA workforce in infectious disease areas is to promote BDA research training and education among students from diverse backgrounds in the early stages of their academic training. In response to PAR-21-258, “NIAID Research Education Program Advancing the Careers of a Diverse Research Workforce”, we propose this R25 emerging scholar (R25 e-Scholar) training program for minority undergraduate students to foster their interests and competencies in BDA research in infectious disease areas. As an important stage of the workforce development pipeline, the undergraduate training program for racial and ethnic minority students will contribute to addressing the nationwide shortage of a diverse data science workforce in NIAID-focused areas. The proposed R25 e-Scholar program will recruit 12 racial/ethnic minority undergraduate students annually from three public universities (University of South Carolina, Clemson University, and the College of Charleston) and three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) (South Carolina State University, Claflin University, and Benedict College) in South Carolina and provide students with interdisciplinary mentoring, comprehensive curriculum-based training, and hands-on research exposure and experience. The program will provide trainees with interdisciplinary mentoring, including team and peer mentoring. Each student will be mentored by at least one faculty member in Big Data or health science, and at least one racial/ethnic minority faculty member will serve as a career- focused role model for the student. Through the mentoring process, students will gain comprehensive research and professional development training, including responsible conduct of research, manuscript writing, and presentations at local or national conferences. The program will offer comprehensive curriculum-based training via a four-week intensive summer institute in areas of BDA, infectious disease, public health research, and professional development. The program will engage trainees in hands-on Big Data research for exposure and experience in Big Data processing, analysis, visualization, and interpretation in the context of infectious disease research. Trainees will participate in ongoing and future NIAID/NIH-funded or intramurally funded Big Data research projects. Upon completion, these students will be inspired and equipped with confidence in pursuing a postgraduate program or career in Big Data-focused infectious disease research. The training program will foster a more diverse research environment at UofSC and across the state and encourage minority undergraduate students to pursue Big Data research in the prevention, treatment, discovery, prediction, and forecasting of HIV, COVID-19, and other infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases.

摘要 随着医疗保健相关大数据的增加，如电子健康记录（EHR），社交媒体， 可穿戴设备、基因组数据和其他与个人和人群相关的信息数字记录 大数据科学在健康科学的许多领域带来了革命性的进步， 包括传染病研究。然而，大数据在医疗保健研究中的潜力尚未得到充分发挥。 由于数据采集、分析和解释方面的挑战，其中一个挑战是 全国范围内缺乏具备大数据所需知识、能力和技能的劳动力 分析师（BDA），特别是具有不同背景的劳动力，如种族和少数民族。一 一个有前途的方法，以增加多样性的BDA劳动力在传染病领域是促进 BDA研究培训和教育的学生来自不同背景的早期阶段， 学术训练。为了响应PAR-21-258，“NIAID研究教育计划推进职业生涯的 多样化的研究工作队伍”，我们提出这个R25新兴学者（R25电子学者）培训计划， 少数民族本科生，以培养他们的兴趣和能力，在BDA研究传染病 病区。作为劳动力发展管道的重要阶段，本科培养 种族和少数民族学生的计划将有助于解决全国范围内的短缺， 在NIAID重点领域的多元化数据科学工作人员。拟议的R25电子学者计划将招募12名 三所公立大学（南方大学）每年招收少数种族/族裔本科生 卡罗莱纳、克莱姆森大学和查尔斯顿学院）和三所历史上的黑人学院， 南卡罗来纳州的大学（HBCUs）（南卡罗来纳州州立大学、克拉夫林大学和本尼迪克特学院） 卡罗莱纳，并为学生提供跨学科的指导，全面的基于计算机的培训， 和亲身实践的研究经验。该计划将为学员提供跨学科的 指导，包括团队和同伴指导。每个学生将由至少一名教师指导 在大数据或健康科学，至少有一个种族/少数民族教师将担任职业- 为学生树立一个专注的榜样通过指导过程，学生将获得全面的研究 和专业发展培训，包括负责任的研究行为，手稿写作， 在地方或国家会议上发言。该计划将提供全面的基于 通过为期四周的暑期密集培训，在BDA、传染病、公共卫生研究等领域进行培训， 和职业发展。该计划将让学员参与实际的大数据研究， 在传染病背景下的大数据处理、分析、可视化和解释方面的经验 疾病研究。学员将参加正在进行的和未来的NIAID/NIH资助或内部资助的 大数据研究项目。完成后，这些学生将受到启发，并具备信心， 从事以大数据为重点的传染病研究的研究生课程或职业。培训 该计划将在UofSC和全州范围内营造一个更加多样化的研究环境，并鼓励少数民族 本科生追求大数据研究的预防，治疗，发现，预测， 预测HIV、COVID-19和其他传染性、免疫性和过敏性疾病。