NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing health equity and diagnostic technologies (GA)

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是在格鲁吉亚建立一个创新生态系统，并计划扩展到周边东南部各州，开发和翻译负担得起的和广泛可用的设备，这些设备可以在日常生活中轻松穿戴或使用，以促进每个人的健康和健康，特别是那些服务不足的社区。东南部的预期寿命和其他健康结果是美国最低的，使其成为这个潜在引擎的主要地区。这项活动成功的关键是城乡地区不同社区的紧密整合和参与，以告知和开发可在护理点使用的设备。这些社区用户组将通过严格的需求评估计划帮助定义技术需求，为技术路线图提供信息，最终推动以使用为导向的研究，教育和劳动力发展的招标。翻译后并投入商业使用的技术将直接用于整个区域同样不同的用户群体。埃默里大学、格鲁吉亚理工学院、格鲁吉亚大学、莫尔豪斯医学院、全球健康创新中心和格鲁吉亚技术学院系统的主要引擎合作伙伴都与这些不同的用户社区有着密切的联系。他们将在这些和行业联系的基础上开发潜在的引擎。 该发展奖将重点关注（1）建立一个合作伙伴生态系统，以推动护理点诊断和可穿戴设备领域的使用启发式研究和技术转化，并加强社区参与，以促进健康公平;（2）从医疗保健的角度，并在所有利益攸关方的投入下，扩大与弱势和服务不足的格鲁吉亚社区的现有关系，制定一个初步的使用启发技术路线图，并在随后的阶段扩展到邻国;（3）建立年度技术展示活动，通过突出床旁医疗设备的发展来推动技术转化，并将研究人员，医疗保健专业人员，行业领导者，政府，社区领导人和技术资助者;以及（4）根据行业和社区的投入制定全面的教育和劳动力发展计划。通过其具体的计划，发展奖将填补目前在社区代表性，行业参与和技术翻译资源方面的空白。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on building an innovation ecosystem in Georgia with the plan to expand to surrounding southeastern states that develops and translates affordable and widely available devices that can be easily worn or used in daily life to promote health and wellness for everyone, particularly for those in underserved communities. Life expectancy and other health outcomes in the southeast are the lowest in the US, making it the prime region for this potential Engine. Critical to the success of this activity will be a tight integration and engagement of diverse communities across rural and urban areas to inform and develop devices that can be used at the point of care. These community user groups will help define technology needs through a rigorous needs-assessment program, informing technology roadmaps that ultimately drive solicitations for use-inspired research, education, and workforce development. Technology translated and made commercially available will be directly employed in the same diverse user communities across the region. The main Engine partners of Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Morehouse School of Medicine, the Center for Global Health Innovation, and the Technical College System of Georgia all have strong ties to these diverse user communities. They will build on these and industry connections to develop the potential Engine. This Development Award will focus on (1) building an ecosystem of partners to drive use-inspired research and technology translation in the area of point-of-care diagnostics and wearables with strong community engagement to advance health equity; (2) expanding existing relationships with vulnerable and underserved Georgia communities, from a healthcare perspective, and, with input from all stakeholders, develop an initial use-inspired technology roadmap which will be expanded to neighboring states in subsequent phases; (3) establishing an annual technology showcase event that drives technology translation by highlighting developments in point-of-care medical devices and bringing together researchers, healthcare professionals, industry leaders, government, community leaders, and technology funders; and (4) developing a comprehensive education and workforce development program based on industry and community input. Via its specific programs, the Development Award will fill current gaps in community representation, industry involvement, and resources for technology translation. Thus, it will prepare the team for a full NSF Engine.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.