Research Fellowship Program
About AIM-AHEAD
The AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center was established to enhance diversity in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), with an emphasis on reducing health disparities and promoting health equity. We hope to achieve this by engaging in a fair, equitable, and transparent process of building a consortium of AI/ML to promote health equity and an inclusive and diverse workforce. Many communities have untapped potential to contribute new expertise, data, recruitment strategies, and cutting-edge science to the AI/ML field. AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center (A-CC) seeks to promote broad participation and engagement through mutually beneficial partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and outreach to advance health equity.
About the Research Fellowship
The AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Program will engage a group of early-career researchers to actively participate in biomedical research that involves the use of AI/ML methodologies on biomedical research data, clinical and genomic cohorts to address health disparities and inequities, including bias in AI/ML algorithms or data.
The program is open to individuals conducting research at the intersection of healthcare practice and delivery, AI/ML methods, and the advancement of health equity. The AIM-AHEAD Consortium seeks projects from institutions and their investigators from a variety of fields of study, institutions, and geography.
This Fellowship supports early-career researchers (graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and others conducting research outside of an academic institution within 10 years of completing their highest degree) in implementations of novel and innovative data science and data-focused research problems. The program will provide both funding support and additional AIM-AHEAD resources for researchers who will leverage AIM-AHEAD to gain access to training, data, and infrastructure needed to rapidly develop research skills required in the AI/ML field. The research project needs to focus on AIM-AHEAD North Star (III): Use AI/ML to address disparities and minority health in behavioral health, cardiometabolic health, and cancer.
The Research Fellowship Program had Cohort 1 in September 2022, Cohort 2 in September 2023, and will start Cohort 3 in September 2024. More information about the Fellows of the AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Cohort #1, and Cohort #2, including their profiles and research projects.
2022 - 2024
submitted Applications
Cohort 1 | 41 |
Cohort 2 | 46 |
Cohort 3 | 59 |
Awarded research Fellows
Fellows | Institutional Mentors | AIM-AHEAD Mentors | |
Cohort 1 | 22 | 12 | 22 |
Cohort 2 | 25 | 18 | 25 |
Cohort 3 | 25 | 13 | 25 |
Datasets Available for Research Fellowship
From 1 dataset from Cohort 1 to 7 datasets in Cohort 3
Research Fellow's Primary Datasets
OCHIN | MedStar | AWS | All of Us | BioData Catalyst | ScHARe | |
Cohort 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cohort 2 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Cohort 3 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |