Place-based Culturally Responsive Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) Program

项目摘要 生物医学信息学学科为促进科学创新和促进卫生公平做好了准备。为了真正利用多种方法、理论和应用在信息学领域的潜力，迫切需要加强研究社区的多样性。最近的教育研究表明，有意地与文化、社区和当地需求建立联系，对于欢迎和留住在生物医学研究中传统上被边缘化的个人可能是至关重要的。以地方为基础的教育是一种以社区为基础的学习形式，旨在让学生有目的地参与其中，以回应当地的环境和健康需求，包括当地的历史、文化、人和生态。这种学习培养学生的批判性和分析能力，并积极地让学生参与解决现实世界的问题，并具有增加学生参与科学研究以及信息学等跨学科领域的巨大潜力。在这个项目中，我们建议开发一个真正跨学科的、基于地点的文化响应性健康信息学研究教育(PHIRE)计划，该计划汇集了数据科学、系统科学和工程、健康信息学和公共卫生的专业知识，并将社区的地区资产和需求注入到培训和课程中。PHIRE培训计划的愿景是招募和培养60名本科生(每年12名)，以开展卫生信息学的科学研究，内在地侧重于解决健康差距和公共卫生需求。PHIRE培训计划包括三个主要部分：(1)为期12周的暑期研究经历；(2)健康信息学专业本科生辅修课程；(3)为研究生院或其他健康信息学研究职业做准备。

Project Summary The discipline of biomedical informatics is primed to foster scientific innovation and advance health equity. To truly harness the potential of multitude of methods, theories, and application in the field of the informatics, there is pressing need to enhance the diversity of the research community. Recent educational research suggests that intentional connections to culture, community, and local needs may be critical to welcoming and retaining individuals that are traditionally marginalized in biomedical research. Place-based education, a form of community-based learning, aims for purposeful student engagement that is responsive to local environmental and health needs, including its history, culture, people, and ecology. Such learning cultivates critical and analytical skills and actively engages students in real-world problem solving and holds much potential for increasing student engagement in scientific research as well as in interdisciplinary areas such as informatics. In this project, we propose to develop a truly interdisciplinary, Place-based Culturally responsive Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) program that brings together expertise from data science, systems science and engineering, health informatics, and public health and infuses regional assets and needs from the community into the training and curricula. The vision of the PHIRE training program is to recruit and prepare a diverse pool of 60 undergraduate students (12 students per year) to conduct scientific research in health informatics with an inherent focus on addressing health disparities and public health needs. The PHIRE training program includes three major components: (1) a 12-week summer research experience, (2) a thematic undergraduate minor in health informatics, and (3) preparation for graduate school or other research careers in health informatics.