Addressing Health Disparities among Oklahoma Minority and Rural Communities through Clinical Research Education and Career Development

项目总结 需要大量临床研究人员来减少影响少数族裔和医疗服务不足的健康差距。 社区。俄克拉荷马州的健康状况在许多指标上都远远低于美国的平均水平， 一直被列为整体健康状况最差的五个州之一。此外，慢性健康 疾病对该州少数族裔和服务不足的社区造成了不成比例的影响。临床研究人员 需要在人口健康、流行病学、量化和研究方面的培训和实际研究经验 定性研究方法、文化敏感性和基于社区的参与式研究方法 以便与社区建立有效的伙伴关系，以满足卫生需求。俄克拉荷马大学 健康科学中心(OUHSC)，其长期的使命是在大学教育不同的学生群体 专业和研究生水平，成为高素质的卫生服务从业者、教育工作者和 研究科学家，独一无二地准备解决美洲原住民、西班牙裔和非洲人之间的健康差距 美国和俄克拉何马州的农村人口通过加强培训计划和研究事业 临床研究人员，特别是少数族裔和代表性不足的研究人员的发展计划。 此外，一大批具有丰富指导经验和多样化投资组合的高级调查人员 健康差距研究项目可用于指导计划参与者的队列。有一个整体 目标为提升少数族裔研究人员的临床研究方法专业知识和研究事业，我们将 完成以下具体目标：(1)充实现有的临床与翻译硕士学位 科学学位课程将包括在定性研究、社区研究方法中扩展的课程工作 评估和干预、文化敏感性和以社区为基础的参与性研究，重点是 影响少数群体和服务不足社区的健康差距，(2)支持和指导博士后 少数民族临床和人口健康研究人员在开发独立研究项目中的作用 重点关注少数民族中与心血管疾病、癌症、糖尿病和风湿病相关的健康差距 和服务不足的社区，通过有指导的研究经验，以及(3)扩大 少数族裔调查人员，他们拥有必要的研究技能，能够有意义地接触少数族裔和 通过向以下社区传播方案组成部分，开展健康差距研究 改善俄克拉荷马人、部落民族公民和面临类似健康挑战的社区的健康状况。这个 培训计划将接受持续的计划评估和修订，以解决技能发展问题 研究人员的需求。这一拟议项目的影响将通过传播 由此产生的培训和教育计划。

PROJECT SUMMARY A critical mass of clinical researchers is needed to reduce health disparities affecting minority and underserved communities. The health status of Oklahomans is far below the United States average for many metrics, consistently ranking as one of the five states with the worst overall health. Furthermore, chronic health conditions disproportionately affect minority and underserved communities in the state. Clinical researchers require training, and practical research experiences, in population health, epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative research methods, cultural sensitivity, and community-based participatory research methods in order to form effective partnerships with communities to address health needs. The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), with its long-standing mission to educate a diverse body of students at the professional and graduate levels to become highly qualified health services practitioners, educators, and research scientists, is uniquely poised to address health disparities among Native American, Hispanic, African American, and rural populations in Oklahoma by enhancing the training programs and research career development programs for clinical investigators, specifically minority and underrepresented investigators. Furthermore, a critical mass of senior investigators with extensive mentoring experience and a diverse portfolio of health disparities research projects is available to mentor the cohort of program participants. With an overall goal to enhance clinical research methods expertise and research careers among minority researchers, we will complete the following specific aims: (1)To enrich the existing Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Science degree curriculum to include expanded coursework in methods of qualitative research, community assessment and intervention, cultural sensitivity, and community-based participatory research with a focus on health disparities affecting minority and underserved communities, (2) To support and guide post-doctoral minority clinical and population health investigators in their development of independent research programs focused on cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, and rheumatic disease-related health disparities among minority and underserved communities through mentored research experiences, and (3) To expand the cadre of minority investigators who have research skills necessary to meaningfully engage with minority and underserved communities in health disparities research through dissemination of program components to improve the health of Oklahomans, tribal nation citizens, and communities with similar health challenges. The training programs will undergo ongoing program evaluation and revision to address the skill development needs of the researchers. The impact of this proposed project will be broadened through the dissemination of the resulting training and educational programs.