{"id":204,"date":"2023-02-08T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-02-08T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:51:00","slug":"president-hudson-other-dignitaries-attend-phit-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/2023\/02\/08\/president-hudson-other-dignitaries-attend-phit-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"President Hudson, Other Dignitaries Attend PHIT Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University President, Thomas Hudson, MS State Senator David Blount, and State Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Justin Turner were in attendance at the PHIT (Public Health Informatics &amp; Technology) launch event on January 20th. Billed as &#8220;Brunch With PHIT&#8221;, the event took place in front of the JSU School of Health in the Jackson Medical Mall. PHIT was made possible through a $10 million cooperative grant for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Girmay Berhie, Ph.d, the program&#8217;s principal investigator, says that PHIT will provide students with real-time, practical training that will help them adapt to a rapidly transforming digital climate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this program we will equip students with the skills, knowledge, and values to help close educational gaps,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This will be a catalyst for digital transformation through our Informatics graduate certificate and undergraduate degrees in bioinformatics, data science, nursing informatics, business analytics, public health informatics and technology, and health informatics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Hudson agreed, saying that it will take a holistic approach to building the type of capacity that helps eliminate health disparities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PHIT is a part of the overall strategy of the School of Health,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is taking our words and our ideas and putting them into fundable action items&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PHIT will offer 2 new graduate certificates in both Public Health Informatics and Data Analytics in the fall. In addition, they have also initiated a High School component called HISTA (Health, Informatics, Science and Technology Academy) that will look to create multiple pathways to careers in informatics for high school students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230207_161658-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230207_161658-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230207_161658.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/phit\/files\/2023\/02\/PHIT-launch-pics-1-1-1500x1000.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Charles A. 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