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We’re excited to announce the 2024 R25 Fellows who will join the NIAID-funded R25 Big Data Health Science Fellow Program. As part of the BDHSC’s professional development mission, the Big Data Fellow program is designed to address these gaps and promote big data health science research at USC. Representing three different academic colleges/schools, the 2024 fellows include Pieter Baker (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Hui Chen (Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences), Lelia Larson (Assistant Professor of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior), Parthenia Luke (Research Assistant Professor, College of Social Work), Yuan Wang (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Yanfeng Xu (Assistant Professor, College of Social Work). Since 2021, a total of 20 junior faculty fellows have joined the Big Data Health Science Fellow Program. Learn more about our fellows, their mentors, and their proposed research.

The University of South Carolina (USC) Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC) welcomes the 2024 cohort of its third annual Big Data Health Science Summer Research Training Program for Infectious Diseases. This program is a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Short-Term Institutional Research Training Grants (T35), and is designed to contribute to the growing demand for workforce development in the data science field. Studies show the existing shortage of data scientists in healthcare research and operations is growing, with demand already outstripping supply by 50–60%. This shortage is further exacerbated by the high demand for the same talent by healthcare providers, payers, and other industries. Recognizing this shortage, the health care industry needs academia to reengineer its curriculum to focus on using big data analytics.