[Asis-l] UNC health informatics program awarded $3.1 million NIH-NLM T15 training grant

[Perales, Katherine Pearl]

UNC health informatics program awarded $3.1 million NIH-NLM T15 training grant
The Carolina Health Informatics Program (CHIP) has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Library of Medicine (NLM) T15 Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Training grant. Only a handful of U.S. organizations were selected for this highly-competitive and prestigious award, which will provide approximately $3.1 million for doctoral student support, post-doctoral appointments, and short-term summer training for undergraduate students. The grant will serve as a significant resource for CHIP's recently established PhD in health informatics.

"CHIP has already made great strides in improving health data analytics and analytics systems usability through our master's degree and certificate programs," said CHIP Director and UNC Professor Javed Mostafa. "Research by doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows, guided by CHIP's world-class, interdisciplinary faculty, will advance this success even further, helping to improve the quality of health care for North Carolina citizens and the world."

The UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) is a lead partner in the CHIP program, which draws faculty and expertise from units across campus, including the UNC School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Pubic Health, UNC School of Nursing, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC School of Dentistry, and Computer Science Department.

For more information, visit https://sils.unc.edu/news/2017/chip-t15 or http://chip.unc.edu