In this webinar, a Researcher Workbench coach from the All of Us Researcher Academy will share key steps for planning to conduct analysis in the Workbench. Researchers will learn how they can use publicly available All of Us resources to craft research questions and identify the key information required for an analysis plan. Throughout the webinar, important strategies and suggestions will be grounded in an example analysis thatexamines the relationship between social support and access to health care among LGBTQIA+ young adults. The webinar will conclude with a panel discussion with academy coaches highlighting tips for navigating the Workbench.
Join us on Zoom Wednesday, October 16, 11AM–12PM PT / 2PM–3PM ET
Our Presenter
Vincenzo Malo (he/they) is a public health researcher with a background in quantitative and qualitative social support research. He evaluates tobacco-control media campaigns for national and state clients like the Food and Drug Administration and the Florida Department of Health. Their work also includes surveillance of substance use behaviors and risk perceptions, evaluation of health systems and health systems providers, and implementation of equity-focused research methods to identify and respond to disparities in substance use outcomes. Vincenzo works with several large-scale datasets and is skilled in data management, analysis, and visualization in Stata and R.
In their role at RTI, Vincenzo has studied innovative methods to conduct equity-focused public health research that aims to disrupt systems of oppression. As part of the RTI Global Gender Center’s LGBTQIA+ Rising group, he led an initiative to develop guidance on inclusive research practices with LGBTQIA+ populations, conducting a review of existing methodologies and publishing his findings for other RTI researchers. They advise projects on these research methods, as well as how to improve research processes by centering projects around equity. Vincenzo serves on the PRIDE Employee Resource Group’s Equity Advisement & Advancement Committee, where he helps facilitate a LGBTQIA+ Workplace Equity Training, and on the Communication Practice Area’s EDIB Working Group.
Vincenzo’s research interests also include psychosocial well-being and social determinants of health for LGBTQIA+ populations. Specifically, his previous research has focused on using strength-based approaches to identify opportunities for public health interventions aimed at improving social support and other psychosocial outcomes for adolescents living with HIV, families with young children, and orphans and separated children. They have led and co-authored three manuscripts related to this work.
About the New Directions in Health Research and Equity Webinar Series
This series spotlights innovative scholarship leveraging publicly available data from the All of Us Research Program. These scholars, members of the All of Us Researcher Academy network, are pushing the boundaries of health research and education through equity-focused questions, cutting-edge methods, and data that reflect the rich diversity of our country. Join us to learn about their projects and hear insights into how you can use this dataset in your own work.
All of Us Research Program
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to speed up health research discoveries, enabling new kinds of individualized health care. To make this possible, the program is building one of the world’s largest and most diverse databases for health research. All of Us aims to include a million or more people living in the United States and its territories. The program seeks for its participant cohort to reflect the diversity of the U.S. population and to include individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in health research in the past.
All of Us Researcher Academy
The All of Us Researcher Academy provides training and technical assistance to researchers who are conducting research with the All of Us Researcher Workbench, the cloud-based platform where registered researchers can access data contributed by All of Us participants. The academy also supports peer-to-peer learning and network-building among researchers and students.
The academy is dedicated to providing support to institutions that have a documented historical mission or historical commitment to training underrepresented students. See the Notice of NIH’s Interest in Diversity for examples of groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce.
All of Us Researcher Academy resources are provided at no cost to students, faculty, and post-docs at institutions that have received academy Institutional Champion awards. RTI International has supported research teams at 19 universities overall.
RTI International leads the All of Us Researcher Academy in collaboration with the All of Us Research Program’s Division of Engagement and Outreach. The division partners with community organizations nationwide to foster relationships with participants, researchers, and health care providers. The academy and other researcher engagement activities are central to building a diverse community of researchers.
All of Us Researcher Academy Partners
The All of Us Researcher Academy is supported by the Division of Engagement and Outreach, All of Us Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Award Number OT20D028395.
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