Data Navigators 2.0 - Building Foundational Data Analysis Skills Among Future Healthcare Leaders 2019-2020

An NNLM Community Engagement grant would support the delivery of Data Navigators 2.0, a
high-impact data analytics and visualization course contextualized for healthcare careers and applications
and be offered to Providence teens through our partnership with the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle
College Charter High School. Students will complete the course with the skills and knowledge necessary
to: Collect relevant data, while ensuring data integrity; use NNLM resources, including for data collection;
clean data using spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel); create a graphic representation of data using a
data visualization tool (Tableau); analyze data using accepted statistical methods; create and deliver a
presentation of analysis; and demonstrate foundational knowledge of the field of Data Analytics. NNLM
resources will be strategically incorporated into the course format and will help encourage the use of
reliable and accurate health information and data in students’ coursework and final projects. Our
proposed project will make a significant impact on addressing short and long-term health and education
disparities among underserved youth, helping to foster a stronger, more informed healthcare workforce
among our community’s next generation of thinkers, doers, and leaders, and positioning them to make
more empowered healthcare choices for themselves while also passing this knowledge onto the greater
community of patients they will ultimately serve.