About us

Accessible and Inclusive Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (AIBIDS) is a short-term research training program funded by the National Library of Medicine for undergraduate students from under-represented backgrounds including person who identify as belonging to minority or disability group. 

AIBIDS is a full-time 10-week authentic research internship in biomedical informatics and data science under the guidance of a mentor (faculty member or trainee) at either the University of Pittsburgh or Gallaudet University.

Students will be immersed in an authentic full-time mentored research experiences from one of more than 11 informatics topic areas:

• Artificial intelligence in medical Imaging

• Bioinformatics 

• Cheminformatics 

• Clinical research informatics

• Data science 

• Health Care/Clinical informatics

• Health informatics for the underserved

• Intelligent systems

• Interpreting for biomedical informatics 

• Translational informatics

• Public health informatics

Students will be taught by a tiered mentoring team that includes over 25 faculty with a wealth of experience working with students from backgrounds that are under-represented in STEM. 

The program will also offer a novel biomedical informatics and data science American Sign Language interpreting mentorship that will provide advanced language training and increase the accessibility of the field.