What: NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge
Application Cycle: January 15, 2025 through March 10, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Website: academyhealth.org/NCHSData
Short Promotional Language
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Headline: Graduate Students: Show Off Your Data Viz Skills
Announcing the 2025 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge This competition is an opportunity for graduate students (master’s or doctoral level) to create dynamic or static data visualizations that address social determinants of health and discuss new information provided by the graphic. Apply today for an exciting opportunity to illustrate and communicate critical public health issues using public use files from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and non-NCHS public use data. Winning teams will receive complimentary registration to the 2025 Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Please note: Once the Intent to Apply is submitted, applicants will receive a link to the full application. Applicants must complete a full application to enter the Challenge.
Questions about eligibility or application instructions? Please visit our FAQ page or contact AcademyHealth staff at NCHS@academyhealth.org.
Full Application Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET
Link: https://academyhealth.org/NCHSData
Marketing Email Language
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Subject Line: The NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge is Now Open
Headline: Graduate Students: Enter the 2025 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge
The 2025 NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge is now open. This competition is an opportunity for graduate students (master’s or doctoral level) to create static or dynamic data visualizations to address social determinants of health using NCHS public use files with non-NCHS public use data. Apply today for a unique opportunity to explain an important trend or disparity in public health.
Participate in the Challenge to:
- Gain experience creating and describing data visualizations to communicate important public health disparities to a wide audience;
- Earn greater visibility as a researcher in the fields of public health and data science;
- Broaden your professional network and discover new collaborators at the 2025 Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.
Please note: Once the Intent to Apply is submitted, applicants will receive a link to the full application. Applicants must submit a full application to enter the Challenge.
Questions about eligibility or application instructions? Please visit our FAQ page or contact AcademyHealth staff at NCHS@academyhealth.org.
Full Application Deadline: Monday, March 10, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET
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- Announcing the 2025 Health Data Visualization Challenge in partnership w/ @NCHStats! Are you a graduate student interested in using #dataviz to address SDOH? Apply today! Full applications due March 10: https://academyhealth.org/NCHSData
- Graduate students! Show off your #dataviz talents in a Challenge hosted by AcademyHealth and @NCHStats. Winning teams receive comp’d registration to #ARM25. Learn more here: https://academyhealth.org/NCHSData
- Applications for the AcademyHealth/@NCHStats 2025 Health Data Visualization Challenge are now open. Communicate critical public health issues through public use data and win the chance discover new collaborators at #ARM25. https://academyhealth.org/NCHSData
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Calling all graduate students! Apply today for an exciting opportunity to illustrate and communicate critical public health issues using public use file data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and non-NCHS public use data. As part of the NCHS/AcademyHealth Data Visualization Challenge, competing graduate students will create dynamic or static data visualizations that address social determinants of health and discuss new information provided by the graphic. The top two teams (individuals or teams of up to 3 people plus a mentor) will receive complimentary registration to attend the 2025 Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Earn greater visibility as a researcher in the fields of public health and data science and submit your application by Monday, March 10, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. ET. Learn more: https://academyhealth.org/NCHSData