T32 Women’s Health and Intersectionality Training Grant

Research Training in Women’s Health and Intersectionality Using Data Science and Health Information Technology (WISDOM).  T32NR020778

The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing invites applications for full time study in the PhD in Nursing program, and applicants for postdoctoral traineeship funded by the T32 program. T32 pre-and postdoctoral trainees will participate in a tailored research training program, which aims to prepare nurse scientists acquire knowledge and skills to employ data science (DS) and/or emerging health information technologies (HIT) into their research. Project topics must propose to improve women’s health outcomes with a conceptual focus on the intersectionality of multiple social determinants of health. Trainees will be mentored by an interdisciplinary team of researchers who will facilitate learning related to women’s health applying DS and/or HIT.  Two to three applicants admitted to the PhD in Nursing Program, and one postdoctoral trainee will be selected each year for this fellowship and interdisciplinary research training. The program is funded by a training grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

This grant project period Start Date 07/01/2023 – End Date 06/30/2028

The Training Program

Predoctoral training is embedded in the PhD in Nursing program.

Our PhD program is grounded in the biobehavioral sciences and prepares doctoral students to understand SDOH and surrounding contextual factors influencing health/disease, health promotion, palliative care and symptom management, and health disparities. In this training program, we enrich our existing PhD program to address urgent needs in women’s health research with highly innovative and timely methodologies that are informed by data science and health information technology.

Both pre and postdoctoral training include:

Coursework:

• General coursework in nursing science
• Specific coursework in:
  • Women’s health
  • Intersectionality
  • Data Science and/or Health Information Technology

Research mentorship by nursing faculty as well as other distinguished faculty drawn from experts across Emory University

Seminars and workshops with interdisciplinary and/or stakeholder speakers that emphasize the concepts of interdisciplinary research and team science.

Training to address ethical considerations in women’s health research.

Educational and practicum content in the teaching role.

Research seminars and workshops on grant writing

The program builds on the Emory advantage for research training:

• Accomplished faculty mentors in the School of Nursing and across the academic health center with research expertise in symptoms, self-care, health interventions, and outcomes in patients and their families with chronic health problems including cardiovascular, cancer, neurological, diabetes mellitus, HIV-AIDS, Asthma/COPD, obesity, and renal populations.

• Access to Emory University core research facilities and over 300 clinical partners, including Emory Healthcare, and the SON’s Center for Nursing Excellence in Palliative Care, Center for Data Science, NINR funded P30 focused on Symptoms, Metabolomics and Multimorbidity, and NIA funded Roybal Center for Caregiving Mastery.

• Access to outstanding research resources of the greater Atlanta area such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other research universities.

Pre and postdoctoral trainees receive a monthly stipend, tuition support, benefit assistance, and partial support for professional travel and research related expenses.

‍Primary core faculty (School of Nursing)

• Deborah W. Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN, (T32 Program Director)
• Vicki Hertzberg, PhD, FASA (T32 Program Co-Director)
• Rasheeta Chandler, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
• Sandra B. Dunbar, PhD, RN, FAAN, FAHA, FPCNA
• Rebecca Gary, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
• Jeannie Cimiotti, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Xiao Hu, PhD
• Linda McCauley, RN, PhD, FAAN, FAAOHN
• Drenna Waldrop-Valverde, PhD
• Jill Hamilton, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Melinda Higgins, PhD
• Ursula Kelly, PhD, APRN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC
• Kylie Smith, BA (Hons), PhD
• Mi-Kyung Song, PhD, RN, FAAN
• Lisa Thompson, RN, FNP-BC, MS, PhD, FAAN
• Whitney Wharton, PhD
• Kate Yeager, RN, PhD, FAAN

Collaborating Core (Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Arts and Sciences)

• Hannah Cooper, ScD (SPH,Dept. of Behavior, Social, and Health Education Sciences)
• Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc(SOM, Dept of Medicine)
• Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD(SPH, Epidemiology)
• Vaidy Sunderam, PhD (ECAS,Computer Science)
• Li Xiong, PhD (ECAS,Mathematics and Computer Science)
• Gari Clifford, PhD (SOM, Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics)

Predoctoral applications: due by January 2, 2025

Doctoral applicants must meet the admission criteria for the Emory University Laney Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (BSN-PhD or MSN-PhD Track) and have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in nursing and a professional nursing license. All applicants to the T32 predoctoral program must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States. Pre-doctoral applicants should also submit references and a brief essay indicating their prior research experience and their research interests related to training in data science (DS) and emerging health information technologies (HIT) in order to improve women’s health. Pre-doctoral applicants interested in the T32 should also send a notification of their interest to the T32 program administrator, Jean Harrell (aharrel@emory.edu)

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Postdoctoral Applications: priority deadline February 1, 2025

All applicants to the T32 postdoctoral program must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States and must submit official transcripts from previous and/or current institutions and 3 reference letters. Applications to the post-doctoral program should be either enrolled in or graduated from a research-focused doctoral program at the time of application.

Postdoctoral applicants must submit their curriculum vitae and a brief description of their research goals including the next logical step in their research and research training, goals for research development including alignment with the goals of the T32, and interest in a faculty mentor; three letters of reference; and transcripts from their doctoral degree program. Select applicants will be invited to complete an interview with the training faculty.

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Principal Investigator(s) and Staff:

Vicki Stover Hertzberg, PhD, FASA, P. Stat.
Professor & Director Center for Data Science
(404) 727-1881
email: vhertzb@emory.edu

Rasheeta D. Chandler, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN
Associate Professor
(404) 727-8164
email: r.d.chandler@emory.edu

Jean Harrell
T32 Program Administrator
(404) 727-6923
email: aharrel@emory.edu

The T32 grant is looking for a graduate student that may be interested in a post-doc position on the WISDOM grant:

Application Form