Pipelines into Biostatistics: Training in Quantitative Public Health

生物统计学的管道：定量公共卫生培训

• 批准号: 8333775
• 负责人: REBECCA A. BETENSKY
• 金额: $ 20.58万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8333775
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; American; Award; Biometry; Clinical; Commit; Country; Development; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Faculty; Future; Goals; Individual; Institution; Learning; Mathematics; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Mission; Modeling; Occupations; Oral; Participant; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Project Grants; Rotation; Schools; Science; Societies; Staging; Students; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Visit; career; experience; graduate student; meetings; member; posters; programs; public health relevance; symposium; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 1994, the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) established the Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences for minority and underrepresented undergraduates, with the goal of encouraging the future participation of these students in graduate programs in Public Health, Biomedicine, and Biostatistics. This first-in-kind program served as a model for similar programs throughout the country, which have continued and strengthened this very important mission of increasing the diversity in Public Health and Biostatistics. In 2010, the American Mathematical Society recognized Harvard's program with its Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference Award, its annual award for programs that do an "outstanding job of bringing more individuals from underrepresented minority groups into the mathematical sciences ... through replicable methods." The citation for the award states: "The program has made a remarkable contribution to the national effort to produce more minority students pursuing careers in biostatistics and public health." Now, in 2011, we are embarking on the second stage of our pipeline development. We have recognized through our experience that while a single, short term summer program experience can be enormously successful at establishing the first segment in the pipeline, it is not sufficient to increase the minority presence that we need among graduate students, fellows and faculty in Biostatistics. Thus, we propose to reinforce and extend the pipeline that we have initiated with the summer program with the following completely new components to our program: 1. An annual symposium that will be attended by current and past program participants, faculty, fellows, graduate students, and the external advisory committee, and will feature oral presentations and posters by participants at all levels. The symposium will have dual academic and mentoring objectives. 2. Post-Baccalaureate Biostatistics Interns will reside at Harvard for three months each summer. These interns will participate in collaborative research projects and participate in three one-month rotations at academic and clinical centers at Harvard, and they will receive directed mentoring and support for graduate school applications and selection. They will return to Harvard to participate in the symposium and present their research in a subsequent summer. 3. Faculty members from quantitative fields at minority serving undergraduate institutions will attend our annual symposium and spend two days in intensive meetings with HSPH faculty in a faculty workshop. This faculty will teach us about their students, and we will teach them about the field of quantitative Public Health so that they can educate their undergraduate students about this exciting career option. We have developed a broad network of individuals across Harvard who are eager and committed to providing the necessary research and mentoring support to make our proposed programs successful and to help transform Biostatistics into a profession that is rich in diversity. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overarching goal of this T36 proposal is to increase the presence of underrepresented minority groups in the field of Biostatistics and quantitative Public Health, at all levels, including the graduate student, fellow and faculty levels. To address this, we propose a Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences for underrepresented minority undergraduates, including formal training in Biostatistics, collaborative research, and professional and graduate school mentoring. We have learned that we need to reinforce and extend this pipeline in order for it to have a sustained impact; to this end we propose to have program participants return in subsequent summers for an annual symposium at Harvard, to establish a three month Post-Baccalaureate Biostatistics Intern program, and to invite faculty from minority serving undergraduate institutions to visit each summer and participate in the symposium and intensive meetings with Harvard faculty for mutual exchange of information.

描述（由申请人提供）：1994年，哈佛公共卫生学院（HSPH）的生物统计学系为少数民族和代表性不足的本科生建立了定量科学暑期课程，目的是鼓励这些学生未来参与公共卫生，生物医学和生物统计学的研究生课程。这是第一个同类方案，为全国各地的类似方案提供了一个样板，这些方案继续并加强了增加公共卫生和生物统计多样性这一非常重要的使命。2010年，美国数学学会颁发了“有所作为的数学项目奖”，以表彰哈佛的项目。该奖项是一年一度的奖项，旨在表彰那些“在将更多来自代表性不足的少数群体的个人带入数学科学领域方面做出杰出贡献的项目.通过可复制的方法。该奖项的引文说：“该计划作出了显着的贡献，国家的努力，以产生更多的少数民族学生追求职业生涯的生物统计学和公共卫生。“现在，在2011年，我们正在着手我们的管道发展的第二阶段。我们已经通过我们的经验认识到，虽然一个单一的，短期的暑期课程的经验可以在建立管道中的第一部分是非常成功的，它是不够的，以增加少数民族的存在，我们需要在研究生，研究员和教师在生物统计学。因此，我们建议加强和扩展我们在夏季计划中启动的管道，并为我们的计划提供以下全新的组成部分：1。一个年度研讨会，将由当前和过去的计划参与者，教师，研究员，研究生和外部咨询委员会参加，并将由各级参与者口头介绍和海报。研讨会将具有学术和指导双重目标。2.毕业后的生物统计学实习生每年夏天将在哈佛居住三个月。这些实习生将参与合作研究项目，并在哈佛的学术和临床中心参加三次为期一个月的轮换，他们将获得研究生院申请和选拔的指导和支持。他们将回到哈佛参加研讨会，并在随后的夏天展示他们的研究成果。3.来自少数民族服务本科院校定量领域的教师将参加我们的年度研讨会，并在教师研讨会上与HSPH教师进行为期两天的密集会议。该学院将向我们介绍他们的学生，我们将向他们介绍定量公共卫生领域，以便他们能够教育本科生了解这个令人兴奋的职业选择。我们已经在哈佛发展了一个广泛的个人网络，他们渴望并致力于提供必要的研究和指导支持，以使我们提出的计划取得成功，并帮助将生物统计学转变为一个充满多样性的职业。 公共卫生关系：这T36提案的总体目标是增加代表性不足的少数群体在生物统计学和定量公共卫生领域的存在，在各级，包括研究生，研究员和教师的水平。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个夏季定量科学计划，为代表性不足的少数民族本科生，包括生物统计学，合作研究，专业和研究生院指导的正式培训。我们认识到，我们需要加强和扩大这一渠道，使其产生持续影响;为此，我们建议让项目参与者在随后的夏天返回哈佛参加年度研讨会，建立一个为期三个月的学士学位后生物统计学实习项目，并邀请少数民族服务的本科院校的教师每年夏天访问，参加研讨会和密集的会议，哈佛教员相互交流信息。