Pipelines into Biostatistics: Training in Quantitative Public Health

生物统计学的管道：定量公共卫生培训

• 批准号: 8333775
• 负责人: REBECCA A. BETENSKY
• 金额: $ 20.58万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8333775
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; American; Award; Biometry; Clinical; Commit; Country; Development; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Faculty; Future; Goals; Individual; Institution; Learning; Mathematics; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Minority Groups; Mission; Modeling; Occupations; Oral; Participant; Public Health; Public Health Schools; Research; Research Project Grants; Rotation; Schools; Science; Societies; Staging; Students; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Visit; career; experience; graduate student; meetings; member; posters; programs; public health relevance; symposium; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 1994, the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) established the Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences for minority and underrepresented undergraduates, with the goal of encouraging the future participation of these students in graduate programs in Public Health, Biomedicine, and Biostatistics. This first-in-kind program served as a model for similar programs throughout the country, which have continued and strengthened this very important mission of increasing the diversity in Public Health and Biostatistics. In 2010, the American Mathematical Society recognized Harvard's program with its Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference Award, its annual award for programs that do an "outstanding job of bringing more individuals from underrepresented minority groups into the mathematical sciences ... through replicable methods." The citation for the award states: "The program has made a remarkable contribution to the national effort to produce more minority students pursuing careers in biostatistics and public health." Now, in 2011, we are embarking on the second stage of our pipeline development. We have recognized through our experience that while a single, short term summer program experience can be enormously successful at establishing the first segment in the pipeline, it is not sufficient to increase the minority presence that we need among graduate students, fellows and faculty in Biostatistics. Thus, we propose to reinforce and extend the pipeline that we have initiated with the summer program with the following completely new components to our program: 1. An annual symposium that will be attended by current and past program participants, faculty, fellows, graduate students, and the external advisory committee, and will feature oral presentations and posters by participants at all levels. The symposium will have dual academic and mentoring objectives. 2. Post-Baccalaureate Biostatistics Interns will reside at Harvard for three months each summer. These interns will participate in collaborative research projects and participate in three one-month rotations at academic and clinical centers at Harvard, and they will receive directed mentoring and support for graduate school applications and selection. They will return to Harvard to participate in the symposium and present their research in a subsequent summer. 3. Faculty members from quantitative fields at minority serving undergraduate institutions will attend our annual symposium and spend two days in intensive meetings with HSPH faculty in a faculty workshop. This faculty will teach us about their students, and we will teach them about the field of quantitative Public Health so that they can educate their undergraduate students about this exciting career option. We have developed a broad network of individuals across Harvard who are eager and committed to providing the necessary research and mentoring support to make our proposed programs successful and to help transform Biostatistics into a profession that is rich in diversity. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overarching goal of this T36 proposal is to increase the presence of underrepresented minority groups in the field of Biostatistics and quantitative Public Health, at all levels, including the graduate student, fellow and faculty levels. To address this, we propose a Summer Program in Quantitative Sciences for underrepresented minority undergraduates, including formal training in Biostatistics, collaborative research, and professional and graduate school mentoring. We have learned that we need to reinforce and extend this pipeline in order for it to have a sustained impact; to this end we propose to have program participants return in subsequent summers for an annual symposium at Harvard, to establish a three month Post-Baccalaureate Biostatistics Intern program, and to invite faculty from minority serving undergraduate institutions to visit each summer and participate in the symposium and intensive meetings with Harvard faculty for mutual exchange of information.

描述（由申请人提供）：1994年，哈佛大学公共卫生学院（HSPH）生物统计学系建立了针对少数群体和代表性不足的本科生定量科学的夏季计划，目的是鼓励这些学生未来参与公共卫生，生物医学，生物医学和生物统计学。这项最初的计划是全国类似计划的模型，该计划继续并加强了这一非常重要的使命，以增加公共卫生和生物统计学的多样性。 2010年，美国数学学会通过其数学计划认可了哈佛大学的计划，该计划获得了不同的奖项，该计划的年度奖项是“通过可复制的方法将更多个人从代表性不足的少数群体带入数学科学的杰出工作。”该奖项的引用指出：“该计划为培养更多从事生物统计学和公共卫生职业的少数族裔学生做出了显着贡献。”现在，在2011年，我们将踏上管道开发的第二阶段。通过我们的经验，我们认识到，虽然单一的短期夏季计划经验可以在建立管道中的第一部分方面取得巨大成功，但不足以增加我们在生物统计学中我们需要的少数群体存在。因此，我们建议加强和扩展我们从夏季计划发起的管道，并提供以下全新的计划：1。每年的研讨会，将由当前和过去的计划参与者，教职员工，研究生，研究生和外部顾问委员会参加，并将在各个级别的参与者进行口头介绍和启示。研讨会将具有双重学术和指导目标。 2。每年夏天，毕业后生物统计学实习生将在哈佛三个月内居住三个月。这些实习生将参加合作研究项目，并在哈佛大学的学术和临床中心参加三个月的轮换，他们将获得针对研究生院申请和选择的指导指导和支持。他们将返回哈佛大学参加研讨会，并在随后的夏季进行研究。 3。少数派服务本科机构的定量领域的教职员工将参加我们的年度研讨会，并在与HSPH教职员工一起在教师讲习班的HSPH教职员工进行两天的时间。这个教师将教我们他们的学生，我们将教他们有关定量公共卫生领域的知识，以便他们可以教育本科生有关这种激动人心的职业选择。我们已经在哈佛大学建立了一个广泛的个人网络，他们渴望并致力于提供必要的研究和指导支持，以使我们的计划成功，并帮助将生物统计学转变为具有丰富多样性的职业。 公共卫生相关性：该T36提案的总体目标是增加代表性不足的少数群体在生物统计学和定量公共卫生领域的存在，包括研究生，同胞和教职员工。为了解决这个问题，我们为代表性不足的少数族裔本科生提供了一项夏季计划，包括生物统计学，协作研究以及专业和研究生院指导的正式培训。我们了解到，我们需要加强和扩展该管道，以使其产生持续的影响。为此，我们建议让计划参与者在随后的夏季返回哈佛在哈佛举行的年度研讨会，以建立三个月后的生物统计学后生物统计学实习计划，并邀请少数群体的教职员工，每年夏天访问每年夏天，并参观了Harvard Abterutty群体以进行互惠交流。