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

项目摘要 需要大量的临床研究人员来减少影响少数民族和服务不足的健康差距 社区.俄克拉荷马州人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 这些条件不成比例地影响到该州少数民族和服务不足的社区。临床研究人员 需要在人口健康、流行病学、定量和 定性研究方法，文化敏感性和社区参与性研究方法， 与社区建立有效的伙伴关系，以满足卫生需求。俄克拉荷马州大学 健康科学中心（OUHSC），其长期的使命，以教育学生的多元化机构， 专业和研究生水平，成为高素质的卫生服务从业人员，教育工作者， 研究科学家，是唯一准备解决健康之间的差距，美洲原住民，西班牙裔，非洲 美国，和农村人口在俄克拉荷马州通过加强培训计划和研究事业 临床研究者的发展计划，特别是少数民族和代表性不足的研究者。 此外，有足够数量的资深调查员，他们具有丰富的指导经验和多样化的工作组合 健康差异研究项目的一部分可用于指导该计划的参与者。总体 为了提高少数民族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）丰富现有的临床和转化科学硕士 科学学位课程包括定性研究方法的扩展课程，社区 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 影响少数民族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调查人员在他们的独立研究计划的发展 关注少数民族与心血管、癌症、糖尿病和风湿病相关的健康差异 和服务不足的社区，通过指导的研究经验，和（3）扩大干部， 少数民族调查人员具有有意义地与少数民族和 通过传播方案组成部分， 改善俄克拉荷马州人、部落民族公民和面临类似健康挑战的社区的健康。的 培训计划将进行持续的计划评估和修订，以解决技能发展问题 研究人员的需要。将通过传播下列资料扩大拟议项目的影响： 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.