by Michelle Reed
Kindratt Receives UTA CARES Innovation Grant
Dr. Tiffany Kindratt was awarded a UTA CARES Innovation Grant for her project, “Big Data for Epidemiology: Development of Applied Data Analysis Skills using National Health Surveys.” Kindratt, Assistant Professor in UTA’s Department of Kinesiology, received the grant to develop an open textbook for a new course in the Master of Public Health program. In addition to use in the program’s Health Services Research Lab, the open textbook will be used in a new 5000-level course, “Big Data for Epidemiology,” that will be offered in Spring 2021.
Kindratt’s own experiences as a student motivated her to develop the open textbook:
“During my Master of Public Health (MPH) program, I became interested in learning how to analyze large national health surveys. No courses were available to teach me the applied data analysis skills I was interested in learning. I had to learn on my own while completing my MPH thesis. Two barriers that may have prevented my program from providing this training were 1) cost of statistical software and 2) a lack of textbooks available for applied data analysis of national health surveys. Through the UTA CARES program, I am able to eliminate these barriers for our MPH students and better prepare them with the skills in large database analysis needed to be part of the evolving public health workforce.”
The UTA CARES Grant Program, managed by UTA Libraries, helps educators adopt and create open educational resources (OER), which are free course materials that are licensed so others can revise and reuse the content.
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