Data Science to Enhance Research Capacity of a Research-Intensive Medical College.

This paper describes our efforts to enhance the research capacity of the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program at Meharry Medical College and foster collaborations between RCMI and a newly established School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS). These efforts include offering subawards to collaborative research groups, financial support to graduate students for their participation in collaborative research, performing need assessment to understand the needs of the community so as to guide our project implementation, and providing data science training to enhance the data analytics skills of the RCMI investigators, staff, medical residents, and graduate students. This paper presents the progress of this project, which clearly indicates its positive impact on the local community.