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

项目摘要 生物医学信息学的学科是准备促进科学创新和促进健康公平。为了真正利用信息学领域众多方法、理论和应用的潜力，迫切需要加强研究社区的多样性。最近的教育研究表明，有意连接到文化，社区和当地的需求可能是至关重要的欢迎和留住那些传统上被边缘化的生物医学研究的个人。地方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，以满足当地的环境和健康需求，包括其历史，文化，人民和生态。这样的学习培养关键和分析技能，并积极参与学生在现实世界中解决问题，并拥有很大的潜力，增加学生参与科学研究，以及在跨学科领域，如信息学。在这个项目中，我们建议开发一个真正的跨学科，基于地方的文化响应健康信息学研究教育（PHIRE）计划，汇集了数据科学，系统科学与工程，健康信息学和公共卫生的专业知识，并将区域资产和社区需求注入培训和课程。PHIRE培训计划的愿景是招募和准备60名本科生（每年12名学生）的多元化人才库，以解决健康差距和公共卫生需求为内在重点，进行健康信息学的科学研究。PHIRE培训计划包括三个主要组成部分：（1）为期12周的夏季研究经验，（2）健康信息学的主题本科未成年人，以及（3）为研究生院或健康信息学的其他研究职业做准备。

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.