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

地方文化响应式健康信息学研究教育 (PHIRE) 计划

• 批准号: 10631819
• 负责人: Kacey C Ernst
• 金额: $ 11.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10631819
• 关键词: Address; Area; Arizona; Awareness; Biomedical Computing; Biomedical Research; Clinical; Communities; Complex; Data Science; Data Set; Discipline; Ecology; Education; Educational Curriculum; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Health; Faculty; First Generation College Students; Fostering; Gender; Graduation Rates; Health; Health Sciences; Hispanic-serving Institution; Immersion; Individual; Informatics; Information Sciences; Learning; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minor; Outcome; Participant; Persons; Problem Solving; Process; Public Health; Public Health Informatics; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; STEM field; Science; Structure; Students; System; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; Universities; Vision; academic minor; base; biomedical informatics; career; cohort; college; community college; design; disadvantaged student; education research; ethnic minority population; experience; faculty mentor; graduate school preparation; health data; health disparity; health equity; health equity promotion; improved; innovation; population health; programs; racial and ethnic; recruit; retention rate; skill acquisition; skills; socioeconomics; statistics; student participation; success; summer research; theories; undergraduate student

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.

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