California Consortium for Public Health Informatics and Technology
Susan Ivey, Professor
Public Health
Applications for Spring 2024 are closed for this project.
This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping of data/GIS methods. We are creating a pipeline program to increase workforce diversity and capacity in informatics. We are both creating courses and bootcamps for students and current workers and evaluating the success of the programs.
Role: The undergraduate student will work with faculty and a graduate student or other undergraduate on tasks using data collected on courses as well as help on recruitment/outreach to underserved students. All the courses have a health equity frame and we are assessing/evaluating our success at outreach/participation of URM students.
Qualifications: We are seeking a junior or senior public health and data sciences student who is already comfortable with use of programs like R and Python to help with assignments, building surveys to collect data, tracking of student participation, and evaluation across all the universities/colleges who are engaged. We plan to submit some abstracts or manuscripts so students should have an interest in publishing and/or presenting results (we can train you).
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Project Manager - Irina Titova Lopatin, MPH/MPP
Hours: 3-5 hrs
Off-Campus Research Site: Hybrid work. The research center is Health Research for Action center, 1995 University Ave., Golden Bear Center, Suite 265, Berkeley, CA 94720
Related website: https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/academics/specialty-areas/public-health-informatics/
Related website: https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/academics/specialty-areas/public-health-informatics/