APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 2019 MHEALTH TRAINING INSTITUTE @UCLA
Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 mHealth Training Institute (mHTI) to be held at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center from July 28 – August 2, 2019. The goal of the week-long, immersion program is to foster the competencies and collaborations required to tackle “wicked” healthcare problems with mHealth approaches. The mHTI uses a blended learning approach that combines “deep dives” into the latest mHealth methodologies with collaborative team-science projects to develop compelling transdisciplinary mHealth solutions.
The 2019 mHTI builds on the successes of previous mHTIs. Scholars from earlier institutes have highlighted a wide range of benefits, describing the mHTI as “transformative” and “a seminal experience in my professional development” with a “wonderful atmosphere and congeniality among scholars” and “terrific and generous faculty.” Independent post-institute surveys typically garner the highest ratings in terms of scholar satisfaction. Details of previous mHealth Training Institutes including scholars, faculty, and programs are available at:
https://mhealth.md2k.org/mhealth-training-institute.
Application
The mHTI is underwritten by a NIH/OBSSR/NIDA training grant (1R25DA038167) and supported by the NIH Center for Excellence on Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). It derives from a core of experienced faculty mentors; academic thought-leaders dedicated to developing the next generation of mHealth scientists. Due to the intensive and team-science nature of the mHTI, participation is limited to 30 scholars. Scholars are required to commit to attending all days of the m HTI as well as the pre-mHTI conference calls. There is no tuition and the selected scholars will be provided with lodging at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
Our target scholars are early-career (Assistant/Associate Professors) as well as established researchers who are interested in expanding their mHealth knowledge base and skills and forging interdisciplinary connections. Preference will be given to academia-based applicants who plan to use the training to add a mHealth dimension to their research. At the end of the workshop, teams will have developed an idea for a research proposal that could be submitted to the NIH or NSF. A link to the mHTI application form as well as details and guidelines are available at https://mhealth.md2k.org/apply.
For information, contact mHTI@md2k.org.
Key Dates
The 2019 mHTI builds on the successes of previous mHTIs. Scholars from earlier institutes have highlighted a wide range of benefits, describing the mHTI as “transformative” and “a seminal experience in my professional development” with a “wonderful atmosphere and congeniality among scholars” and “terrific and generous faculty.” Independent post-institute surveys typically garner the highest ratings in terms of scholar satisfaction. Details of previous mHealth Training Institutes including scholars, faculty, and programs are available at:
https://mhealth.md2k.org/mhealth-training-institute.
Application
The mHTI is underwritten by a NIH/OBSSR/NIDA training grant (1R25DA038167) and supported by the NIH Center for Excellence on Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K). It derives from a core of experienced faculty mentors; academic thought-leaders dedicated to developing the next generation of mHealth scientists. Due to the intensive and team-science nature of the mHTI, participation is limited to 30 scholars. Scholars are required to commit to attending all days of the m HTI as well as the pre-mHTI conference calls. There is no tuition and the selected scholars will be provided with lodging at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
Our target scholars are early-career (Assistant/Associate Professors) as well as established researchers who are interested in expanding their mHealth knowledge base and skills and forging interdisciplinary connections. Preference will be given to academia-based applicants who plan to use the training to add a mHealth dimension to their research. At the end of the workshop, teams will have developed an idea for a research proposal that could be submitted to the NIH or NSF. A link to the mHTI application form as well as details and guidelines are available at https://mhealth.md2k.org/apply.
For information, contact mHTI@md2k.org.
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: January 27, 2019
- Notifications of acceptance: April 15, 2019