Engaging, Inspiring, and Preparing the Next Generation of Biostatisticians

 描述（由申请人提供）：生物统计学家在健康科学研究中发挥着重要作用。临床试验和观察性研究的设计、实施和分析;监管政策的制定;以及实验室实验的概念，几十年来都受到生物统计学家的基本贡献的影响。遗传学、基因组学和其他组学、医学成像技术和计算生物学的进步;越来越重视精确和循证医学;电子健康记录的广泛采用;和收集大量数据资源的设施需要生物统计学家的技能，这些生物统计学家经过培训，能够在多学科环境中进行有效合作，并开发新方法来应对这一革命性挑战。健康科学研究的时代。受过高级培训的生物统计学家将是必不可少的，以确保开发出对从此类大型生物医学数据中发现新见解至关重要的方法，并认识到和解决混淆和偏见的潜在陷阱。事实上，对高素质的生物统计学家的需求将继续升级，更普遍地在国家生物医学和公共卫生研究企业的各个方面的传统和新的角色。因此，迫切需要鼓励美国公民和永久居民进行生物统计学的研究生培训。有量化天赋的学生有各种职业选择与生物统计学竞争，许多人不知道这个领域的存在和它所提供的机会。本申请中提出的为期六周的研究教育计划将于2016-2018年夏季举行，将招收来自全国各地的20名此类参与者，并通过讲座，实地考察和使用统计软件分析真实的健康科学研究数据的机会，向他们介绍生物统计学和该领域提供的无数机会，并激励他们继续研究生培训。该计划将利用北卡罗来纳州州立大学统计系和杜克大学生物统计学和生物信息学系的大量和互补资源，为参与者提供该领域无与伦比的视野，包括屡获殊荣的教师国际知名的方法和临床研究人员，以及当地丰富的展示生物统计职业生涯的机会。将作出特别努力，招收代表性不足群体的参与者。参加者将在完成后跟踪，参加生物统计学/统计学研究生院和从事生物统计学职业的人数将记录在案。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biostatisticians play a fundamental role in health sciences research. The design, conduct, and analysis of clinical trials and observational studies; the setting of regulatory policy; and the conception of laboratory experiments have been shaped by the fundamental contributions of biostatisticians for decades. Advances in genetics, genomics, and other -omics, medical imaging technologies, and computational biology; the increasing emphasis on precision and evidence-based medicine; the widespread adoption of electronic health records; and the facility to collect massive data resources demand the skills of biostatisticians trained to collaborate effectively in a multidisciplinary environment and to develop new methods to address the challenges presented by this revolutionary era of health sciences research. Biostatisticians with advanced training will be essential to ensure that methods critical to uncovering new insights from such big biomedical data are developed and that the potential pitfalls of confounding and bias are recognized and addressed. Indeed, the demand for highly qualified biostatisticians will continue to escalate more generally in both traditional and new roles across all facets of the nation's biomedical and public health research enterprise. There is thus an urgent need to encourage US Citizens and Permanent Residents to pursue graduate training in biostatistics. Quantitatively talented students have a variety of career options competing with biostatistics, and many are unaware of the existence of this field and the opportunities it presents. The six week research education program proposed in this application, to be held in the summers of 2016-2018, will enroll up to 20 such participants from across the nation and, through lectures, field trips, and opportunities to analyze data from real health sciences studies using statistical software, introduce them to biostatistics and the myriad opportunities the field offers and inspire them to pursue graduate training. The program will draw upon the considerable and complementary resources of North Carolina State University's Department of Statistics and the Duke University Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics to provide participants with an unparalleled view of the field, including award-winning instructors internationally known methodological and clinical researchers, and a local area rich in opportunities to showcase biostatistical careers. Special efforts will be made to enroll participants from underrepresented groups. Participants will be followed after completion, and the numbers attending graduate school in biostatistics/statistics and pursuing biostatistics careers will be documented.