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: 8856583
• 负责人: REBECCA A. BETENSKY
• 金额: $ 20.19万
• 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 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8856583
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; American; Award; Biometry; Clinical; Country; Development; Educational process of instructing; Faculty; Faculty Workshop; Future; Goals; Health; 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; mathematical sciences; meetings; member; posters; programs; 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：1994 年，哈佛大学公共卫生学院 (HSPH) 生物统计系为少数族裔和代表性不足的本科生设立了定量科学暑期项目，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项目。这一同类首创计划成为全国类似计划的典范，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，美国数学会授予哈佛数学项目“有所作为奖”，该项目每年颁发一次奖项，奖励那些“通过可复制的方法，在将更多来自弱势群体的人带入数学科学方面做出杰出贡献的项目”。该奖项的嘉奖理由是：“该项目为国家培养更多少数族裔学生从事生物统计学和公共卫生事业做出了卓越贡献。”现在，2011 年，我们正开始管道开发的第二阶段。通过我们的经验，我们认识到，虽然单一的短期暑期项目经验可以在建立管道中的第一个部分方面取得巨大成功，但不足以增加我们在生物统计学研究生、研究员和教师中所需的少数群体的存在。因此，我们建议通过以下全新的项目来加强和扩展我们在夏季项目中启动的渠道： 1. 年度研讨会，将由当前和过去的项目参与者、教师、研究员、研究生和外部咨询委员会参加，并将由各级参与者进行口头报告和海报。研讨会将具有学术和指导的双重目标。 2. 学士后生物统计学实习生每年夏天将在哈佛大学实习三个月。这些实习生将参与合作研究项目，并参加哈佛大学学术和临床中心的三个为期一个月的轮转，他们将获得研究生院申请和选拔的定向指导和支持。他们将返回哈佛大学参加研讨会并在随后的夏天展示他们的研究成果。 3. 少数族裔本科院校定量领域的教职人员将参加我们的年度研讨会，并在教职研讨会上与 HSPH 教职人员进行为期两天的密集会议。该教师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，以便他们能够向本科生介绍这一令人兴奋的职业选择。我们在哈佛建立了广泛的个人网络，他们渴望并致力于提供必要的研究和指导支持，以使我们拟议的项目取得成功，并帮助将生物统计学转变为一个富有多样性的职业。