UCI PHIT leadership from left to right: Tim Bruckner, PhD; Yunan Chen, PhD; Kai Zheng, PhD; Sora Tanjasiri, DrPH; and Margaret Schneider, PhD. Not pictured: Marvin Maldonado. Photo credit: UCI ICS.
A workforce training program with an emphasis on public health informatics and technology will launch two new certificate programs this year, adding to its existing summer internship program and a minor degree program. The training program, which is aimed at advancing diversity in the public health field, was created through a partnership between the University of California, Irvine, the Orange County Health Care Agency (OCHCA) and OCHIN Inc.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the burgeoning health informatics and technology field has a job growth outlook of 17 percent over the next 10 years. One of only 10 programs of its kind in the country, the UCI Public Health Informatics and Technology Workforce Development Program, or PHIT, was funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for nearly $7 million in the fall of 2021.
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A pilot internship program took place in the summer of 2022 and program coordinators are accepting applications for the summer 2023 internship, open to UCI undergraduate and graduate students. The PHIT program will also launch two new certificate programs: a Healthcare and Public Health Analytics certificate intended for working professionals and a Public Health Informatics certificate for UCI graduate students, both of which will roll out later this year.
“I enjoyed taking courses in both computer sciences and public health to complete the minor and feel like I have attained a broader knowledge and skillset that will prepare me for the future in the health informatics industry, ” said David Su, a UCI undergraduate student and intern in the pilot cohort. “The PHIT Program provided many opportunities for me to grow professionally.”
The program anticipates that enrollment over the next four years will exceed 445 students and trainees, among whom 300 will graduate by the end of the fourth year. The program anticipates that 5 percent of the students who enroll in and graduate from the program will be Black/African American, 20 percent will be Hispanic/Latinx, and in total, more than 80 percent will be from ethnically diverse groups.
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“An inclusive and technologically-competent workforce is crucial to the future of public health, ” said Kai Zheng, PhD, FACMI, professor of informatics and emergency medicine at the UCI Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences (ICS) and program director. “We face an urgent need to train a 21
Century public health workforce to use digital tools like social media and mobile health apps to reach vulnerable populations. This program aims to position students for success as they encourage positive behavior change, improve public health messaging and analyze data on the social determinants of health through emerging technology.”
The new graduate certificate program will be offered only to students enrolled in UCI’s Master of Public Health program and other UCI STEM-focused graduate programs.
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“As the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear, we face an urgent need to modernize our nation’s public health information infrastructure and harness the power of data to monitor and control the spread of disease, ” said Tim Bruckner, PhD, professor of Health, Society and Behavior with the UCI Program in Public Health and a co-director of the PHIT program. “We also need a diverse workforce to address the widening health, technology, and workforce disparities laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The program’s recruitment efforts are grounded in a consortium approach. In addition to the OCHCA and OCHIN Inc.’s involvement, there are 12 other consortium members in California and beyond that represent a wide variety of settings. These include public health agencies, public insurance plans, strategic philanthropies, associations of health systems and community health centers, and networks of health IT professionals. The program’s consortium members, collectively, have over 800 individual sites in nearly all states in the US, providing UCI students rich opportunities for internships, practicum projects, and full-time employment.
With the ensuing momentum and the supporting infrastructures established through the grant, program leadership expects the program to continue beyond its initial federal funding and go on to graduate more than 120 students annually.
Uci Launches New Public Health Informatics And Technology Training Program With An Emphasis On Diversity Among Its Students
As the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear, we face an urgent need to modernize our nation’s public health information infrastructure and harness the power of data to monitor and control the spread of disease.” – Tim Bruckner, PhD, professor of Health, Society and Behavior with the UCI Program in Public Health and a co-director of the PHIT program.
Program leadership also includes Sora Park Tanjasiri, DrPH., equity advisor and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, and Margaret Schneider, PhD, a researcher, both with the UCI Program in Public Health; Yunan Chen, MBBS, PhD, associate professor of informatics and public health and vice chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of Informatics, ICS; Marvin Maldonado from UCI Engineering and ICS’ Stacey Nicholas Office of Access and Inclusion; Clayton Chau, MD, PhD, director of OCHCA; and Engers Fernandez, MD, vice president of learning and knowledge management at OCHIN Inc.Irvine, Calif., Feb. 15, 2022— The University of California, Irvine today announced the launch of the Institute for Precision Health, an endeavor that marries UCI’s powerhouse health sciences, engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical genomics and data science capabilities to deliver the most effective health and wellness strategy for each individual person and, in doing so, confronts the linked challenges of health equity and the high cost of care.
The institute will bring a multifaceted, integrated approach to what many call the next great advancement in healthcare. Precision medicine collects patient data – history, exams, demographics, molecular and diagnostic tests – and uses the power of computer algorithms, predictive modeling and AI to develop personalized treatment and lifelong health maintenance plans.
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“What we’re doing at the Institute for Precision Health is perhaps the most important step we’ll take in this generation to improve health and well-being, ” said Steve A.N. Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., FAAP, UCI’s vice chancellor for health affairs. “The ever-evolving capabilities of the IPH herald a future of personally tailored care that fundamentally alters the healthcare landscape to place the patient at the center and in control.
“In the past, individuals were treated based on approaches thought to be best for groups of patients. Now we begin the IPH epoch of patient-centric care designed to continuously improve the health of the individual within their community, even as new knowledge accrues, whereby rights, incentives, transparency and control remain the purview of the patient, ” Goldstein added.
Because the disciplines included in IPH already existed at UCI, Goldstein noted, it was in many ways only a small step to join them together and build a resource across campus. The synergy created, however, is no small matter. “This is
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Giant leap for healthcare. It’s glaringly clear that precision health is how to increase the quality of care, to decrease the cost of care – by both improving how it’s delivered and matching cost to value – and to deliver quality healthcare to the underserved, ” he said, adding that the institute’s success will be measured by improvements in individual and community health.
A major goal is revealing new approaches to tackle ailments that lack successful therapies. “For many diseases – especially neurodegenerative ones like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and even Huntington’s, where the causal gene is known – there are simply no treatments available that change their course. We’re excited because we know that with precision health, we have the potential to define diseases better, understand them better and treat them far better, ” said Thompson, IPH co-director. “We expect major breakthroughs.”
While the vision idea for IPH has long been in the works, the COVID-19 pandemic was a beta test demonstrating how rapidly critical medical needs could be addressed. In early 2020, with elements of IPH in place, UCI clinicians, biomedical and computer scientists, and public health experts joined forces to create an AI-driven tool to assess the critical care needs of COVID patients. This app-based tool, the COVID Vulnerability Index, demonstrated that a data-driven approach coupled with world-class clinical therapeutics could help yield the best outcomes for individuals.
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“We couldn’t have had a ‘proof of concept’ with higher stakes than the pandemic, ” said Tom Andriola, IPH co-director. “We saw in real time how mobilizing our capabilities to analyze health data and make customized decisions could complement leading-edge clinical treatments to save lives and reduce hospital stays.”
“Additionally, there is an explosion of data in healthcare, and we’re still only using a small fraction in decision-making, ” he added. “IPH is including not only data from traditional healthcare settings but also the data coming from a new generation of empowered health consumers who are tracking and managing their own health journey.”
The plan is for IPH to have a brick-and-mortar home on the UCI campus that will serve as a hub for educating data-informed clinicians to practice at the top of their licenses, a site for the infrastructure to facilitate translational research, a place for community outreach and a venue for commercial collaborations. Already, industry leaders such asSyntropyandMITREand community partners such as Children’s
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