The Indiana Training Program in Public & Population Health Informatics

项目摘要/摘要 印第安纳州公共和人口健康(PPH)信息学培训计划培训下一代 开拓性的PPH信息学研究人员、教职员工和领导人，准备在 在他们的职业生涯中进行现场和研究，使用生物医学信息学和数据科学来 促进美国民众的健康。在过去的五年里，我们的项目已经培训了12个PPH信息学 研究人员正在帮助国家公共卫生基础设施现代化，并加强 管理和分析人口健康数据。在这些和其他成功的基础上，包括 建立充满活力和蓬勃发展的教育、机构和技术基础设施，以支持这些 学员们，我们现在已经做好了发展我们的计划及其价值的准备，如本申请中所述 更新。该计划仍然有两个首要目标：1)培养博士后和博士后科学家 在PPH信息学研究方面取得成功；以及2)招聘和毕业具有不同专业知识的高素质实习生 背景、种族/民族和研究学科。我们的计划为学员提供先进的数据和 信息科学技能，以应对公共和环境下的生物医学信息学研究挑战 人口健康。博士前实习生攻读流行病学、卫生政策和管理方面的博士学位，或 生物统计学，辅修人口健康分析博士学位。博士后实习生获得进一步培训 如果他们之前没有接受过PPH信息学方面的培训，包括一个以研究为导向的硕士学位。教育性的 面向所有受训者的计划包括课程作业；一个实质性的研究项目，最终形成博士学位论文 学生和硕士研究生论文；有目的地指导和指导实现培训目标；以及 与专家教员的研究相关的出版物、演示文稿和其他学术活动 导师。在下一个资助周期中，我们建议稳定培养9名博士后实习生和5名博士后 受训人员，包括两名专注于艾滋病毒研究的受训人员。总体而言，我们的目标是在过去成功的基础上再接再厉：1) 扩大我们计划服务的学员人数；2)扩大课程和研究经验 在临床信息学领域，包括侧重于培训能够应用PPH信息学的艾滋病毒研究人员 加强对艾滋病毒携带者的监测和护理的方法；3)改进以下领域的课程工作 数据科学和分析；以及4)在我们的教职员工和学员中扩大并实现更大的多样性。

Project Summary / Abstract The Indiana Training Program in Public & Population Health (PPH) Informatics trains the next generation of pioneering PPH informatics researchers, faculty, and leaders, prepared to advance the state of knowledge in the field and conduct research over the course of their careers that uses biomedical informatics and data science to advance the health of the U.S. population. Over the past five years, our program has trained 12 PPH informatics researchers who are helping modernize the nation’s public health infrastructure and strengthen approaches to managing and analyzing population health data. Building on these and other successes, including the establishment of a vibrant and flourishing educational, institutional, and technical infrastructure to support these trainees, we are now positioned to grow our program and its value as outlined in this application for competitive renewal. The program continues to have two overarching goals: 1) train predoctoral and postdoctoral scientists for successful careers in PPH informatics research; and 2) recruit and graduate high-caliber trainees with diverse backgrounds, races/ethnicities, and research disciplines. Our program equips trainees with advanced data and information science skills to address biomedical informatics research challenges in the context of public and population health. Predoctoral trainees pursue a PhD in epidemiology, health policy and management, or biostatistics with a doctoral minor in population health analytics. Postdoctoral trainees obtain further training that includes a research-oriented master’s degree if they lack prior training in PPH informatics. The educational program for all trainees consists of coursework; a substantial research project culminating in dissertation for PhD students and thesis for master's students; purposeful mentorship and guidance in meeting training goals; and associated publications, presentations, and other academic activities related to their research with expert faculty mentors. In this next funding cycle, we propose to train a steady state of 9 predoctoral trainees and 5 postdoctoral trainees, including two trainees focused on HIV research. Overall, we aim to build on our past successes by: 1) expanding the number of trainees served by our program; 2) expanding coursework and research experiences in the area of clinical informatics, including a focus on training HIV researchers who can apply PPH informatics methods to enhance surveillance and care for people living with HIV; 3) improving coursework in the areas of data science and analytics; and 4) expanding and achieving greater diversity among our faculty and trainees.