# Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics - Genomics Supplement

> **NIH NIH T32** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $58,466

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Over the last decade, the Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics (RHeaDI) research training
program has prepared a diverse cadre of 15 nurse scientists at the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels to take
on the major science, health, and technology challenges and opportunities that face our nation for the
foreseeable future. RHeaDI trainees have produced award-winning scholarship at premier scientific
conferences for informatics; translated their findings into clinical, public health, and policy journals; and
advanced the science of informatics application in underserved populations. Former RHeaDI trainees are now
positioned as nursing and biomedical informatics faculty in leading research-intensive organizations. The
RHeaDI core concepts of interdisciplinarity, informatics, health disparities, evidence-based practice, and
underserved populations are even more central to federal and other national strategic initiatives now than in
the past. However, health disparities continue to exist despite significant initiative aimed at improving health
equity and creating a national health information network or cyberinfrastructure that improves health care,
promotes health, and advances biomedical discoveries. It is nurse scientists, such as those educated in the
RHeaDI training program, who are eminently prepared to bridge the scientific domains of nursing, health,
biomedical informatics, and dissemination and implementation to reduce health disparities and facilitate
evidence-based practice in underserved populations through application of rigorous interdisciplinary theories
and methods. Thus, the specific aims of this competitive renewal application are to: 1) Maintain an
administrative structure to support interdisciplinary research training for nurses focused on the use of
informatics to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations; 2)
Recruit and train a qualified diverse cadre of nurses (predoctoral and postdoctoral) to conduct interdisciplinary
research using informatics to reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved
populations; 3) Enhance the knowledge and skills of predoctoral and postdoctoral nurse trainees in the
integration of theories and methods from informatics and from dissemination and implementation science to
reduce health disparities and facilitate evidence-based practice in underserved populations; and 4) Evaluate
the training program structures, processes, and outcomes on an ongoing and annual basis. RHeaDI trainees
will include 3 predoctoral (2-4 years of T32 support) and 2 postdoctoral trainees (2-3 years of T32 support) for
an anticipated total of 5 predoctoral and 4 postdoctoral trainees during the project period. There is no doubt
that the need for RHeaDI is critical and its relevance to the 2011-2016 National Institute of Nursing Research
Strategic Plan is strong. Moreover, the outstanding interdisciplinary research envir...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10161894
- **Project number:** 3T32NR007969-19S1
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** SUZANNE BAKKEN
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $58,466
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2002-08-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10161894

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10161894, Reducing Health Disparities Through Informatics - Genomics Supplement (3T32NR007969-19S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-31 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10161894. Licensed CC0.

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