URAP Project Descriptions

California Consortium for Public Health Informatics and Technology

Susan Ivey, Professor
Public Health

Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.

We are seeking 1 additional student for Fall. 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 providing courses and bootcamps for students and current workers and evaluating the success of the programs. We also present information on students trained to our federal funder at times.

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 about courses 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 one 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: 6-8 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

Social Sciences Biological & Health Sciences

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