The RCMI Program in Health Disparities at Meharry Medical College - Supplement

摘要 梅哈里医学院(MMC)是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学，位于田纳西州纳什维尔 以及南方第一所为非裔美国人开设的医学院。它有一所医学院， 牙科和研究生院。2021年2月，它成立了新的第四所学校， 应用计算科学学院(SACS)，提供数据科学和 与计算机相关的多个领域的研究，包括医疗、社会和环境问题以及 影响少数群体和未得到充分服务的人口健康的趋势。少数民族研究中心 MMC(健康差距研究，RHDR@MMC)的机构(RCMI)计划是一项长期的NIMHD- 资助的努力，使高质量的基础、行为和临床研究能够消除健康 差距。我们的RCMI U54赠款支持许多疾病的健康差异研究，包括 心血管疾病、癌症、糖尿病、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和神经疾病 美国的非西班牙裔黑人人口。数据科学具有改变行业的巨大潜力， 医疗保健和科学发现，这一行政副刊旨在加强数据科学 RHDR@MMC计划的能力，并促进RCMI研究人员和数据之间的合作 科学家，使RCMI调查人员能够评估和分析大型健康科学数据，以增强 提高RCMI方案的整体生产力，并有助于解决健康差距。 具体地说，这个补充奖将帮助为这个项目创建一个数据科学特别工作组，识别数据 Meharry的RCMI研究人员的科学需求，并促进他们与数据之间的合作 SACS方面的科学专家，其中将包括建立一个RCMI/SACS联合讲习班。这将是 使SACS能够为RCMI研究人员提供急需的数据科学专业知识和资源 研究设计、数据基础设施、数据收集、数据工程、健康信息学和机器学习 技术，以提高研究成果以及来自不同国家的研究人员之间的合作 域名。这将使各级RCMI研究人员能够更好地应对他们健康方面的挑战 差异研究。有了这个奖项，我们预计RHDR@MMC计划将得到极大的授权 推进对少数民族健康和健康差距的研究。

Abstract Meharry Medical College (MMC) is a Historically Black College/University located in Nashville Tennessee and the first medical school for African Americans in the South. It has a School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, and School of Graduate Studies & Research. In February 2021, it established a new fourth school, the School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS), to provide academic training in data science and computing-related research on a variety of areas including medical, social, and environmental issues and trends that impact the health of minority and underserved populations. The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program at MMC (in Health Disparities Research, RHDR@MMC) is a long-term NIMHD- funded endeavor that enables high quality basic, behavioral, and clinical research to eliminate health disparities. Our RCMI U54 grant supports health disparities research in many diseases including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and neurological diseases that disproportionally affect non-Hispanic Black population in the US. With the great potential of data science to transform industries, health care, and scientific discovery, this administrative supplement seeks to enhance the data science capacity of the RHDR@MMC program and foster collaborations between RCMI researchers and data scientists, to enable the RCMI investigators to assess and analyze big health sciences data to enhance the overall productivity of the RCMI program as well as contribute to addressing health disparities. Specifically, this supplement award will help create a data science task force for this project, identify data science needs of the RCMI researchers at Meharry, and foster collaborations between them and the data science experts in SACS which will include the development of a joint RCMI/SACS Workshop. This will enable SACS to provide RCMI researchers with much needed data science expertise and resources for study design, data infrastructure, data collection, data engineering, health informatics, and machine learning techniques, to enhance research outcome as well as the cooperation among investigators from different domains. It will enable the RCMI researchers of all levels to better address the challenges in their health disparities research. With this award, we expect that the RHDR@MMC program will be greatly empowered to advance research on minority health and health disparities.