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A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College
As data grows exponentially across diverse fields, the ability to effectively leverage big data has become increasingly crucial. In the field of data science, however, minority groups, including African Americans, are significantly underrepresented. With the strategic role of minority-serving instit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064775 |
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author | Wang, Qingguo Gupta, Vibhuti Cao, Aize Singhal, Ashutosh Gary, Todd Adunyah, Samuel E. |
author_facet | Wang, Qingguo Gupta, Vibhuti Cao, Aize Singhal, Ashutosh Gary, Todd Adunyah, Samuel E. |
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description | As data grows exponentially across diverse fields, the ability to effectively leverage big data has become increasingly crucial. In the field of data science, however, minority groups, including African Americans, are significantly underrepresented. With the strategic role of minority-serving institutions to enhance diversity in the data science workforce and apply data science to health disparities, the National Institute for Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) provided funding in September 2021 to six Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) to improve their data science capacity and foster collaborations with data scientists. Meharry Medical College (MMC), a historically Black College/University (HBCU), was among the six awardees. This paper summarizes the NIMHD-funded efforts at MMC, which include offering mini-grants to collaborative research groups, surveys to understand the needs of the community to guide project implementation, and data science training to enhance the data analytics skills of the RCMI investigators, staff, medical residents, and graduate students. This study is innovative as it addressed the urgent need to enhance the data science capacity of the RCMI program at MMC, build a diverse data science workforce, and develop collaborations between the RCMI and MMC’s newly established School of Applied Computational Science. This paper presents the progress of this NIMHD-funded project, which clearly shows its positive impact on the local community. |
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spelling | pubmed-100487272023-03-29 A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College Wang, Qingguo Gupta, Vibhuti Cao, Aize Singhal, Ashutosh Gary, Todd Adunyah, Samuel E. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As data grows exponentially across diverse fields, the ability to effectively leverage big data has become increasingly crucial. In the field of data science, however, minority groups, including African Americans, are significantly underrepresented. With the strategic role of minority-serving institutions to enhance diversity in the data science workforce and apply data science to health disparities, the National Institute for Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD) provided funding in September 2021 to six Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) to improve their data science capacity and foster collaborations with data scientists. Meharry Medical College (MMC), a historically Black College/University (HBCU), was among the six awardees. This paper summarizes the NIMHD-funded efforts at MMC, which include offering mini-grants to collaborative research groups, surveys to understand the needs of the community to guide project implementation, and data science training to enhance the data analytics skills of the RCMI investigators, staff, medical residents, and graduate students. This study is innovative as it addressed the urgent need to enhance the data science capacity of the RCMI program at MMC, build a diverse data science workforce, and develop collaborations between the RCMI and MMC’s newly established School of Applied Computational Science. This paper presents the progress of this NIMHD-funded project, which clearly shows its positive impact on the local community. MDPI 2023-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10048727/ /pubmed/36981686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064775 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Qingguo Gupta, Vibhuti Cao, Aize Singhal, Ashutosh Gary, Todd Adunyah, Samuel E. A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title | A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title_full | A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title_fullStr | A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title_full_unstemmed | A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title_short | A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College |
title_sort | case study of enhancing the data science capacity of an rcmi program at a historically black medical college |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981686 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064775 |
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