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Place-based Culturally Responsive Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) Program

Award Number: R25LM014225
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/15/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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Place-based Culturally Responsive Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) Program - The discipline of biomedical informatics is primed to foster scientific innovation and promote health for all. To truly harness the potential of multitude of methods, theories, and application in the field of informatics, there is pressing need to enrich the research community by expanding participation from a range of relevant disciplinary perspectives. Recent educational research suggests that intentional connections to culture, community, and local needs may be critical to welcoming and retaining individuals from different professional backgrounds in biomedical research to better serve their communities. Place-based education, a form of community-based learning, aims for purposeful student engagement that is responsive to local environmental and health needs, including its history, culture, people, and ecology. Such learning cultivates critical and analytical skills and actively engages students in real-world problem solving and holds much potential for increasing student engagement in scientific research as well as in interdisciplinary areas such as informatics. In this project, we propose to develop a truly interdisciplinary, Place-based Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) program that brings together expertise from data science, systems science and engineering, health informatics, and public health and infuses regional assets and needs from the community into the training and curricula. The vision of the PHIRE training program is to recruit and prepare a talented pool of 50 undergraduate students (10 students per year) to conduct scientific research in health informatics with an inherent focus on addressing biomedical and public health challenges. The PHIRE training program includes three major components: (1) a 12-week summer research experience, (2) a thematic co-curricular training in health informatics, and (3) preparation for graduate school or other research careers in health informatics.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $114,381 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	845 N PARK AVE RM 538	TUCSON	AZ	85721	PIMA	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	4	9/1/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$114,381
														Subtotal = $114,381

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $114,381 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	845 N PARK AVE RM 538	TUCSON	AZ	85721	PIMA	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	3	9/17/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$114,381
														Subtotal = $114,381

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $114,381 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	845 N PARK AVE RM 538	TUCSON	AZ	85721	PIMA	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	2	8/28/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$114,381
														Subtotal = $114,381

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $114,381 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA	888 N EUCLID AVE RM 510	TUCSON	AZ	85719	PIMA	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	1	9/8/2022	NEW	$114,381
														Subtotal = $114,381

Grand Total All Awards = $457,524

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Place-based Culturally Responsive Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) Program

Award Number: R25LM014225

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/15/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2027

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