Program: Public Health Informatics and Technology @ Jackson State University (PHIT@JSU)
Contact: Dr. Girmay Berhie <girmay.berhie@jsums.edu>; Dr. Loria Brown Gordon <loria.browngordon@jsums.edu>
# of students to be trained: PHIT@ JSU will train 245 faculty, staff, professionals, and community college and high school students, and confer 120 undergraduate and graduate degrees and 75 certificates/badges.
Program Type: New Programs and Expanding Existing Curriculum
The PHIT@JSU Consortium partnership will allow the two institutions of higher learning, JSU and Alcorn State University, to share existing infrastructure and capabilities to prepare, train and place underrepresented minorities into public health informatics and technology careers. The consortium will promote and recruit for informatics and analytics trainings, certificates, and degree programs in public health informatics, bioinformatics, nursing informatics, health informatics, data sciences, data analytics, and business analytics.
| Site | Program | Level | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jackson State University |
Bioinformatics (new) |
Graduate |
Certificate |
|
Business Analytics (new) |
Graduate |
Certificate |
|
|
Data Science (new) |
Graduate |
Certificate |
|
|
Public Health Informatics (new) |
Graduate |
Certificate |
|
|
Informatics and Analytics (new) |
Graduate |
Degree |
|
|
Health Informatics |
Undergraduate |
Degree |
|
|
Informational Workshops |
Undergraduate |
Certificate |
|
|
Health Informatics Science Technology Academy (HISTA) (new) |
High School |
Course |
|
|
Informatics and Analytics Upskill Training |
Professionals |
Certificate |
|
|
Alcorn State University School of Nursing |
Nursing Informatics Program (new) |
Graduate |
Degree |
|
Nursing Informatics (new) |
Graduate |
Certificate |
|
|
Informatics Course - Graduate Nursing Program (new) |
Graduate |
Course |
Partners and consortia members: Alcorn State University, the IBM HBCU Academic Initiative, Mississippi Department of Health, Quinn Healthcare, Mississippi Chamber of Commerce, Greater Jackson Chamber of Commerce, and Coahoma Community College.