TADA - Institutional Research Training Program

Predoctoral Training in Advanced Data Analytics for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) - Institutional Research Training Program

Activities

The TADA T32 grants were awarded in FY 2020 and supports 8 sites that make up this 5-year training program.

To date this program has supported 62 trainees (54 current and 8 alumni) across diverse disciplines including sociology, epidemiology, public health, health economics, health systems and services, mental health, public policy, etc.

Goals and Objectives

The purpose of the TADA T32 is a training pre-doctoral training program that focuses on innovative computational and/or data science analytic approaches and their incorporation into training for the future BSSR health research workforce. The vision of the Advanced Data Analytics for BSSR training program is to support the development of a cohort of specialized BSSR predoctoral candidates pursuing careers in health-related research who will possess advanced competencies in data science analytics.

Specific Areas of Interest

1.Intensive or voluminous longitudinal data.

2. Internet, commercial, and administrative records data.

3. High-density, large sample or population level agency databases.