The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the “Novel, Innovative Tools to Increase Public Awareness and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Undergraduate Challenge” to help address the lack of awareness about sickle cell disease and its associated complications and to improve successful implementation of effective interventions for sickle cell disease (SCD) in real world settings.
Through this Challenge, the NHLBI is challenging undergraduate students to create novel, innovativeinformation dissemination tools that may be used to increase the general public’s awareness of SCD, provide information on SCDand its complications (particularly pain) to individuals, caregivers, families, and communities affected by SCD in an easilycomprehensible manner and that may lead to rapid and sustained adoption of effective interventions for SCD in real worldsettings. Read more about the challenge in the attached document. Submissions are due March 7.
This Challenge is open to any “Student Team”, defined as a group of at least 3 and not more than 5 individuals each of whom is at least 18 years of age and currently enrolled as a full-time student pursuing abachelor’s or associates degree.The Student Team must also be trans-disciplinary, that is, composed of undergraduate students from diverse disciplines such as fine arts, performing arts, humanities, psychology, science, engineering, graphic design, IT (hardware, software), mathematics, statistics, environmental science, computational modeling and others.
If you are interested in participating on a student team or helping to form a student team to participate in this challenge, please contact Dr. Robert Molokie, physician and instructor in the Department of Medicine, at remoloki@uic.edu. He is willing to serve as the faculty advisor for the team.
