Place-based Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE) Program
A National Library of Medicine (NLM) R25 Undergraduate Research Training Program
The PHIRE training program, funded by the National Library of Medicine, aims to prepare undergraduate students for biomedical research careers through mentored research projects that address close-to-home health, environmental, and engineering issues. Research areas include, but are limited to, (a) projects with applications of informatics to biological, clinical, and/or environmental sciences and (b) projects that aim to promote health equity and address health disparities and sociotechnical issues relevant to Arizona and the broader Southwest region.
“CB2 is home to the NLM-funded undergraduate research training program – PHIRE – which takes a place-based learning approach i.e., it aims to tackle health disparities and sociotechnical issues in the Southwest region. We train undergraduate students not only in computing technologies, but on the human-health-technology nexus. Trainees leverage informatics and computing resources that best fit the research problem at hand. These resources range from electronic data capture tools and the high-performance computing environment to the translational bioimaging resource and more…”
Vignesh Subbian & Kacey Ernst, PHIRE Program Directors
