Trainings

Our SHARP Program consists of short, intensive boot camps led by field experts to teach in-demand research skills and methods to investigators at all career levels and from any organization.

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Bayesian Modeling for Environmental Health Workshop: Concepts and Computational Tools for Spatial, Temporal, and Spatiotemporal Modeling Relevant to Public Health

August 21-22, 2024 | In-person training | Subscribe for Updates

Environmental health researchers will learn the principles of Bayesian inference, how to deal with different data structures, the software options available, and different types of analyses.

Better Presentations Workshop: From Design to Delivery

July 22-23, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Attendees will learn the key strategies to create, design, and deliver great presentations that communicate data and analysis more effectively.

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Causal Mediation Analysis Training: Methods and Applications Using Health Data

July 29-31, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to use mediation analysis, an emerging field in causal inference relevant, for comparative effectiveness research in this training.

Climate Change and Health Boot Camp: Building Skills and Knowledge for Effective Engagement

June 12-14, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Clinicians and researchers will learn to improve clinical care and public health practice, prepare for climate change impacts, and integrate case studies into research or management decision-making.

Code Rigor and Reproducibility with R Boot Camp

July 1-2, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Health researchers will learn techniques to prepare data, code using RStudio and make R code more rigorous and reproducible for research projects.

Creating Compelling Research Narrative Workshop: Strategies for Effectively Presenting Your Science

July 11, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn narrative concepts, identify those concepts in pieces of scientific writing, and put concepts into practice to write more effective grant proposals and research manuscripts.

Data, Designed Workshop: Develop Your Creative Process to Create Better, More Effective Data Visualizations

July 15-16, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to bring their data to life using innovative visualization techniques from world leaders that come from two sides of data visualization: data science and design.

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Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp: Biostatistical methods for analyzing EMR data

August 22-23, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will go over opportunities, potentials, statistical challenges and pitfalls of Electronic Medical Records (EMR)/Electronic Health Records (EHR) for health and medical studies.

Environmental Justice Boot Camp: Theory and Methods to Study Environmental Health Disparities

August 15-16, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Environmental health scientists will learn to conduct environmental justice and disparities research using real-world datasets, exposure assessment, epidemiologic methods and analytic approaches.

Environmental Mixtures Workshop: Applications in Environmental Health Studies

July 22-23, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Environmental health researchers will learn various techniques (Bayesian Kernel, Principal Component Analysis) to analyze exposure to mixtures, or multiple pollutants at once, in environmental health.

Epigenetics Boot Camp: Planning and Analyzing DNA Methylation Studies for Human Populations

July 29-30, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn concepts of epigenetics and the effects of risk factors on the epigenome as they design and execute DNA methylation studies.

The Exposome Boot Camp: Measuring Exposures on an Omic Scale

July 18-19, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to measure environmental exposures on an omic scale, which captures all chemical species detectable in human plasma over the life course, using the exposome framework.

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Exposure Modeling Boot Camp: Traditional and Machine Learning Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

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Researchers will learn to apply traditional and machine learning methods (random forest, neural networks) to predict variations in environmental exposures (air pollution, temperature, noise).

Quantitative Genomics Training: Methods and tools for whole-genome and transcriptome analyses

June 24-25, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn techniques like Mendelian Randomization and Colocalization to analyze whole-genome sequencing and transcriptome data in human health studies.

GIS Workshop: Visualizing and Analyzing Health Data

May 30-31, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Environmental health researchers will learn to use GIS programs and demographic data for health data visualization, geo-processing, cluster analysis and relationship identification in this training.

Google Earth Engine Boot Camp: Methods for Using Satellite and Geospatial Data for Environmental Exposure Science

May 20-21, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to use Google Earth Engine to estimate environmental exposures like air pollution, green space, temperature, climate, drought, flooding and forest change for health research.

Indigenous Environmental Health Research Workshop: Methods, Ethics and Practice to Collaborate with Communities

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Environmental health researchers will learn community-driven methods, Indigenous ways of knowing, the IRB process, data sovereignty and their application to Indigenous Environmental Health Research.

K Awards Training: A Path to Success

August 19, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn grant-writing and grant-strategizing for successful K applications, including how to position their research and themselves to engage reviewers.

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Life Cycle Assessment Boot Camp: LCA for the Health Sector

August 12-13 and September 23-24, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Professionals interested in healthcare sustainability will learn to complete a life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental emissions from medical devices and procedures.

Machine Learning Boot Camp: Analyzing Biomedical and Health Data

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In this training, researchers will learn models and R data analysis with machine learning and deep learning methodology with applications in biomedical research.

Mendelian Randomization Boot Camp: A Practical Guide to Study Design and Implementation

August 5-6, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn the steps for Mendelian randomization analysis: identifying data sources, data extraction, data alignment, genetic considerations, assumption checking and sensitivity analysis.

Microbiome Data Analytics Boot Camp: Planning, generating, and analyzing 16S rRNA gene sequencing surveys

June 20-21, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn about 16S rRNA gene sequencing surveys, and the methodology of the design and analysis of Amplicon Sequence Variant (ASV) based investigations of microbial communities.

Multi-omics Boot Camp: Analysis of Omics Data for Research Studies

June 12-14, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers and trainees will learn to analyze omics data integrating germline genetic, gene expression, and exposomic data, gene-environment interaction, mediation, and polygenetic risk scores.

NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp: Building a Strong Foundation for Funding Success

November 12-13, 2024 | Livestream, virtual training

Researchers will learn how to select the right funding opportunities, time their application, write grant proposals, tailor them to reviewers, and navigate academic funding.

The PI's Business of Research Boot Camp: Ins and Outs of Budgets, Personnel and Project Management

July 15-16, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Trainees will learn about personnel, project, time, and budget (NIH, NSF, DOD) management for effective research programs and efficient teamwork to maximize your impact.

PI Crash Course: Skills for Future or New Lab Leaders

January 9-10, 2025 | Livestream, virtual training

Doctoral students, postdocs and new PIs will learn about negotiating, staffing, leading, mentoring, networking and managing people, time and projects in order to run a successful lab.

Python Data Wrangling Boot Camp: Introduction to Data Wrangling, Cleaning and Manipulation with the Python Programming Language

June 6-7, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to analyze biomedical data with Python using data visualizations and machine learning models, and will leave with functioning code.

Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) Training

July 19-21 and July 26-28, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Become a Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and learn to implement a radiation protection program by taking this training requirement for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission type C license.

Single Cell Analysis Boot Camp: Systems Biology Methods for Analysis of Single Cell RNA-Seq

May 20-21, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn scRNASeq data analysis methods (gene expression, cluster, regulatory network, master regulator) used in health studies, emphasizing single cell data collection and analysis.

SQL Boot Camp: Building and Querying Databases

June 26-28, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn to transition data storage from spreadsheets to databases in MySQL, including maintaining data integrity, building databases and querying data using SQL.

Statistical Analysis with Missing Data Workshop: Methods and Applications in Health Studies

June 17-18, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Researchers will learn statistical methods to deal with missing data in health studies to achieve valid statistical inference, including weighting, maximum likelihood, Bayes, etc.

The Scientist and the Storyteller Workshop: Training for Scientists and Journalists to Effectively Communicate Science to the Public

May 30-31, 2024 | Subscribe to hear about the next training

Scientists will learn to be better communicators and journalists will learn to be better translators of scientific information, improving the distribution of health information to the public.