Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的十年中，通过信息学（RHeaDI）研究培训计划减少健康差距已经准备了15名护士科学家在博士前和博士后水平的多元化干部，以承担主要的科学，健康和技术挑战和机遇，面对我们的国家在可预见的未来。RHeaDI受训人员在信息学的顶级科学会议上获得了获奖奖学金;将他们的发现翻译成临床，公共卫生和政策期刊;并在服务不足的人群中推进信息学应用科学。前RHeaDI学员现在被定位为领先的研究密集型组织的护理和生物医学信息学教师。RHeaDI的跨学科、信息学、健康差异、循证实践和服务不足人群的核心概念现在比过去对联邦和其他国家战略举措更加重要。然而，尽管采取了重大举措，旨在改善卫生公平，建立国家卫生信息网络或网络基础设施，以改善卫生保健，促进健康，推动生物医学发现，但卫生差距仍然存在。这是护士科学家，如那些受过教育的RHeaDI培训计划，谁是非常准备弥合护理，健康，生物医学信息学的科学领域，传播和实施，以减少健康差距，促进循证实践在服务不足的人群通过严格的跨学科理论和方法的应用。因此，这种竞争性更新申请的具体目标是：1）保持一个行政结构，以支持护士的跨学科研究培训，重点是使用信息学来减少健康差距，并促进服务不足人群的循证实践; 2）招聘和培训合格的多元化护士队伍（博士前和博士后）利用信息学进行跨学科研究，以减少健康差异并促进服务不足人群的循证实践; 3）提高博士前和博士后护士受训人员在整合信息学和传播与实施科学的理论和方法方面的知识和技能，以减少健康差距，促进在服务不足的人群中开展循证实践;和4）评估培训计划的结构，过程，并在持续和年度的基础上的结果。RHeaDI学员将包括3名博士前（2-4年的T32支持）和2名博士后学员（2-3年的T32支持），预计项目期间共有5名博士前和4名博士后学员。毫无疑问，RHeaDI的需求是至关重要的，它与2011-2016年国家护理研究所战略计划的相关性很强。此外，哥伦比亚大学优秀的跨学科研究环境为实现学习目标提供了独特的资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the last decade, the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) research training program has prepared a diverse cadre of 15 nurse scientists at the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels to take on the major science, health, and technology challenges and opportunities that face our nation for the foreseeable future. RHeaDI trainees have produced award-winning scholarship at premier scientific conferences for informatics; translated their findings into clinical, public health, and policy journals; and advanced the science of informatics application in underserved populations. Former RHeaDI trainees are now positioned as nursing and biomedical informatics faculty in leading research-intensive organizations. The RHeaDI core concepts of interdisciplinarity, informatics, health disparities, evidence-based practice, and underserved populations are even more central to federal and other national strategic initiatives now than in the past. However, health disparities continue to exist despite significant initiative aimed at improving health equity and creating a national health information network or cyberinfrastructure that improves health care, promotes health, and advances biomedical discoveries. It is nurse scientists, such as those educated in the RHeaDI training program, who are eminently prepared to bridge the scientific domains of nursing, health, biomedical informatics, and dissemination and implementation to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations through application of rigorous interdisciplinary theories and methods. Thus, the specific aims of this competitive renewal application are to: 1) Maintain an administrative structure to support interdisciplinary research training for nurses focused on the use of informatics to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations; 2) Recruit and train a qualified diverse cadre of nurses (predoctoral and postdoctoral) to conduct interdisciplinary research using informatics to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations; 3) Enhance the knowledge and skills of predoctoral and postdoctoral nurse trainees in the integration of theories and methods from informatics and from dissemination and implementation science to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations; and 4) Evaluate the training program structures, processes, and outcomes on an ongoing and annual basis. RHeaDI trainees will include 3 predoctoral (2-4 years of T32 support) and 2 postdoctoral trainees (2-3 years of T32 support) for an anticipated total of 5 predoctoral and 4 postdoctoral trainees during the project period. There is no doubt that the need for RHeaDI is critical and its relevance to the 2011-2016 National Institute of Nursing Research Strategic Plan is strong. Moreover, the outstanding interdisciplinary research environment of Columbia University offers unique resources for achievement of study aims.