Building the Workforce

Building the biomedical data science workforce

This article describes efforts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2013 to 2016 to train a national workforce in biomedical data science. We provide an analysis of the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) training program strengths and weaknesses with an eye toward future directions aimed at any funder and potential funding recipient worldwide. The focus is on extramurally funded programs t...

Building the Future Environmental Health Workforce.

Building a Diverse and Innovative Workforce

PAPI is a widely used portable library for accessing hardware counters on modern microprocessors. PAPI offers both counting and sampling interfaces, but the sampling interface is extremely limited, consisting of a simple interrupt-driven interface that can periodically report processor state. In the past few years, the hardware and operating systems of modern processors have added support for n...

Building a laboratory workforce to meet the future: ASCP Task Force on the Laboratory Professionals Workforce.

OBJECTIVES To analyze the demand for services from the nation's medical laboratories, which is predicted to dramatically increase as our citizens age and millions receive insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act. METHODS A systematic review of relevant publications and databases was conducted to assess the current state of the nation's medical laboratory workforce and to examine the...

Sultanate of Oman: building a dental workforce

BACKGROUND A medium- and long-term perspective is required in human resource development to ensure that future needs and demands for oral healthcare are met by the most appropriate health professionals. This paper presents a case study of the Sultanate of Oman, one of the Gulf States with a current population of 3.8 million, which has initiated dental training through the creation of a dental c...