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Zane Networks, a consortium member of the PHIT4DC program, is now accepting applications for the Danielle Carroll Memorial Scholarship Award.   This scholarship fund has been established to honor the memory of Danielle Carroll, a young employee of Zane Networks and a...

Receiving this scholarship holds profound significance for me on both a personal and academic level. Firstly, this scholarship serves as a beacon of opportunity. It has been incredibly helpful in easing the burden of tuition and expenses. It alleviates some of the...

We are thrilled to invite you to the PHIT4DC Career Fair, an exclusive event designed to bridge the gap between healthcare professionals and organizations in the Washington, DC area. This career fair, set to take place at the University of District of Columbia's...

DC’s two HBCUs, The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and Howard University have partnered to create more homegrown healthcare workers, according to WTOP News. The HBCUs have created a new program called, PHIT4DC. It allows anyone from high schoolers to...

The University of the District of Columbia and Howard University have partnered to train a healthcare workforce for the modern day, WTOP News reported. The joint program, PHIT4DC, will allow those interested – from high schoolers to working healthcare professionals –...

There were many lessons learned during the pandemic. Two local universities say one of them is that the District doesn’t have enough healthcare workers who know how to use cutting-edge data and technology. There were many lessons learned during the pandemic. Two local...

The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and Howard University — both located in Washington, DC — have formed a partnership to produce more homegrown healthcare workers by creating a new program called PHIT4DC. According to an article, the program allows...

The pandemic showed health officials in the DC region that public health data systems are not equipped to handle an outbreak of disease. Local universities are trying to improve that system, the University of the District of Columbia and Howard University have teamed...

Professors at the District's historically black universities are joining up to fill a critical gap in the health care industry. The pandemic taught healthcare workers in DC many lessons, one in particular that they need more healthcare workers who know how to use data...

By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com The University of the District of Columbia (UDC), in partnership with Howard University (Howard), was chosen alongside nine other universities across the country to boost the public health informatics workforce...

Ever since the unprecedented era of COVID-19, the health care industry has been riddled with momentous challenges, from the pressures to effectively contain the virus, to frightening shortages of medical professionals across the nation.  Similarly, the District faced...

Some of us may remember incessantly refreshing D.C.’s various COVID data dashboards every afternoon, trying to make sense of the bar graphs jumping up (bad) or down (good), as charts moved from yellow, to red, to green, to yellow again, and so on. Or maybe we remember...

There were many lessons learned during the pandemic. Two local universities say one of them is that the District doesn’t have enough healthcare workers who know how to use cutting-edge data and technology. The University of the District of Columbia and Howard...

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