Engaging, Inspiring, and Preparing the Next Generation of Biostatisticians

吸引、激励和培养下一代生物统计学家

• 批准号: 9075554
• 负责人: MARIE DAVIDIAN
• 金额: $ 24.7万
• 依托单位: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9075554
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 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.

 描述（由应用程序提供）：生物统计学家在健康科学研究中起着基本作用。临床试验和观察性研究的设计，行为和分析；制定监管政策；数十年来，生物统计学家的基本贡献已经塑造了实验室实验的概念。遗传学，基因组学和其他 - 医学成像技术和计算生物学的进步；越来越强调精度和循证医学；电子健康记录的宽度采用；收集大量数据资源的设施要求生物统计学家在多学科环境中有效合作的生物统计学家的技能，并开发新方法来应对这一革命性健康科学研究时代所带来的挑战。进行高级培训的生物统计学家对于确保从他们开发的大型生物医学数据中发现新见解的方法至关重要，并且可以认识到混杂和偏见的潜在陷阱。的确，对高素质生物统计学家的需求将继续在该国生物医学和公共卫生研究企业的各个方面都更加普遍地升级。因此，迫切需要鼓励美国公民和永久居民在生物统计学方面接受研究生培训。定量才华横溢的学生有各种各样的职业选择与生物统计学竞争，许多人不知道该领域的存在及其提供的机会。本申请中提出的为期六周的研究教育计划将在2016-2018夏季举行，将在全国各地的20个此类参与者中招收，并通过讲座，实地考察和机会分析使用统计软件的真实健康科学研究的数据，将其介绍给生物统计学和生物统计学的机会，并启发了他们的培训和启发他们的培训。该计划将借鉴北卡罗来纳州立大学统计学系和杜克大学生物统计学和生物信息学系的考虑和互补资源，为参与者提供无与伦比的领域观点，包括屡获殊荣的教师国际知名的方法论和临床研究人员，以及在当地富有的地方，有机会展示生物统计学护理人员的机会。将做出特别的努力，以招募代表性不足的团体的参与者。完成后将遵循参与者，并将记录参加生物统计学/统计研究生院的人数，并记录从事生物统计学职业。