Conference: Proposal for Student Participation Grant and Distinguished Speakers in Health Community

该会议提案要求资金支持学生参加定于2023年7月2日至8日在芝加哥举行的IEEE数字健康国际会议（ICDH）。 ICDH汇集了来自学术界和工业界，最终用户和医疗保健专业人士的领先研究人员，社区领袖和远见者，在数字健康领域分享他们的研究，实践经验以及对可持续健康和社会保健转型未来的愿景。这笔资金将用于为8名学生提供旅行支持，支付30名学生的注册费，以及学生研究项目竞赛的奖金。这一支持将有助于实现扩大参与的社会目标，丰富会议的知识多样性，改善数字健康相关最新成果向更广泛人群的传播，并进一步培训对数字健康感兴趣的下一代研究人员。组委会希望通过以下方式扩大会议的好处：（1）为学生提供机会，优先考虑代表性不足的研究生，在ICDH展示他们的原创研究工作，并提供一个论坛，在专家研究人员的指导下展示初步研究项目的想法，作为学生研究竞赛;以及（2）在与数字世界密切相关的医学专家的帮助下，在医学界传播和促进数字健康研究。 PI将通过为在会议上接受论文的学生提供旅行支持，以及为美国研究生举办学生竞赛来实现这些目标，并为参加比赛的学生提供会议注册费。入选竞赛的学生还将参加与会议发言人的虚拟指导会议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 conference proposal requests funds to support student participation in the IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH), scheduled for July 2-8, 2023, in Chicago. ICDH brings together leading researchers, community leaders and visionaries from academia and industry, end-users, and healthcare professionals, in the area of digital health to share their research, practical experience, and visions of the future of sustainable health and social care transformations. The funds will be used to provide travel support for eight students, cover registration fees for 30 students, and prizes for a student research project competition. This support will serve both societal goals around broadening participation, enrich the intellectual diversity of the conference, improve dissemination of the latest results around digital health to a wider population, and further the training of the next generation of researchers interested in digital health.The organizing committee is looking to expand the benefits of the conference by (1) providing opportunities to students, with priority to underrepresented graduate students, to present their original research work in ICDH and providing a forum to showcase initial research project ideas under the mentoring of expert researchers as student research competition; and (2) diffusing and fostering digital health research among the medical community with the help of medical experts closely related to the digital world. The PIs will accomplish these goals by providing travel support to students who have papers accepted at the conference, and by hosting a student competition for US-based graduate students, with the grant covering the conference registration fees for the students participating in the competition. Students selected for the competition will also participate in virtual mentoring sessions with conference speakers.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.