The Biomedical Informatics and Behavioral Sciences (BIBS) Summer Research Program

项目摘要/摘要 拟议的生物医学信息学和行为科学(BIBS)夏季研究 该计划旨在鼓励未被充分代表的学生从事口腔健康研究事业。 2000年，美国口腔健康：卫生局局长的一份报告将口腔疾病重新定义为 真正的公共卫生问题。随后发生的事件，包括新冠肺炎大流行，已经 暴露出的美国不平等现象(美国)公共卫生基础设施的起因和 人们对坚持不懈的理解往往很少。美国的牙科公共卫生系统也不例外。 我们的中心假设是双重的：从事口腔健康的卫生专业人员太少，而且 牙科服务研究；他们队伍的多样性不足阻碍了口腔研究 健康差距。为了解决这一假设，德克萨斯农工大学(TAMU)学院 牙科(COD)将为本科生和本科毕业生开发一个新的暑期课程 对牙科感兴趣的学生，拥有硕士学位的牙科学生，或拥有 硕士学位，尤指公共卫生硕士学位。这一创新计划将 利用COD为代表不足的学生制定的现有渠道计划。围嘴将会是 TAMU统计生物信息学中心的首次合作 公共卫生科学部和德克萨斯州口腔健康联盟。拥有来自 三个互补的健康研究专业将为学生增加视角。在这 建议，每个暑期将有6名有才华的实习生参加一个为期9周的综合计划。 前六周将包括生物医学信息学和行为科学的课程作业， 学员将学习编程、统计、分析大数据集的工具，以及 专门针对牙科手术和牙科公共卫生的法规。在节目开始时，每个人 实习生将与一名导师配对。通过合作，他们将发展出一种量身定做的导师关系 计划和实施一个研究项目。在节目结束时，实习生将展示他们的 项目和结果在新成立的“BIBS夏季研究会议”中。

Project Summary /Abstract The proposed Biomedical Informatics and Behavioral Sciences (BIBS) Summer Research Program seeks to encourage underrepresented students to pursue oral health research careers. In 2000, Oral Health in America: A report of the Surgeon General reframed oral diseases as a bona fide public health issue. Subsequent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have exposed inequities in the United States (U.S.) public health infrastructure whose causes and persistence are often poorly understood. The U.S. dental public health system is no different. Our central hypothesis is twofold: too few health professionals are engaged in oral health and dental services research; and insufficient diversity in their ranks hampers the study of oral health disparities. To address this supposition, the Texas A&M University (TAMU) College of Dentistry (COD) will develop a new summer program for undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students interested in dentistry, dental students with a master’s degree, or dental residents with a master’s degree, particularly the Master of Public Health degree. This innovative program will leverage the COD’s existing pipeline programming for underrepresented students. BIBS will be a first-time collaboration among the TAMU Center for Statistical Bioinformatics, the TAMU Department of Public Health Sciences, and the Texas Oral Health Coalition. Having faculty from three complementary health research specialties will add perspective for students. In this proposal, six talented trainees per summer will participate in a comprehensive 9-week program. The first six weeks will consist of coursework in biomedical informatics and behavioral sciences, in which trainees will learn programming, statistics, tools for analyzing large data sets, and codes specific to dental procedures and dental public health. At the start of the program, each trainee will be paired with a mentor. Working together, they will develop a tailored mentorship plan and conduct a research project. At the end of the program, trainees will present their projects and results in a newly established “BIBS Summer Research Conference.”