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Renowned nurse innovator joins FSU College of Nursing to launch nation’s first nursing and AI innovation consortium
Celebrated entrepreneur, author and nursing innovator Rebecca Love is joining Florida State University’s College of Nursing to create the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Consortium.
This first-of-its-kind program will be housed within the college’s Institute on Digital Health and Innovation and empower the new MSN in AI, the nation’s first master’s nursing program on AI in health care.
The new Nursing and AI Innovation Consortium will be co-directed by Rebecca Love, Dean Jing Wang and Dr. Lisa Hightow-Weidman.
“AI and digital health are rapidly growing areas, and we are leading the nation in it,” Hightow-Weidman said. “Rebecca’s first hand experience will provide our students with real-world scenarios and shine a spotlight on potential partnerships within the industry. I’m excited to see what we will achieve together.”
HealthMpowerment NEXT GEN: New Small Business Innovation Research Grant
IDHI and One Cow Standing have received a $1.9 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Building on years of prior human-centered design and research for our HealthMpowerment (HMP) platform, this grant allows us to refine and evaluate our digital health intervention, HMP NEXT GEN.
Breaking Barriers: Empowering Black Young Adults to Embrace COVID-19 Vaccination
Even before the approval of COVID-19 vaccines, misinformation and false narratives about them flooded social media, leading to widespread hesitancy. Black young adults, especially those in the southern United States, were particularly hesitant, with early estimates showing only 42% were likely to accept the vaccine. This skepticism and rampant misinformation, coupled with systemic health care barriers that harm Black populations, made it imperative to find effective ways to reach and engage Black young adults living in southern states expeditiously.
We knew time was of the essence, so we developed a proposal to adapt the “Tough Talks” digital health intervention that engaged young adults to promote HIV-related health into Tough Talks for COVID-19 or TT-C.