Catalyzing Systemic Change at Drexel University to Support Diverse Faculty in Health Disparities Research

项目摘要 NIH U54 Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation（FIRST） （RFA-RM-20-022），德雷克塞尔大学提出建立一个强大的，变革性的和可持续的 该计划旨在支持从事健康差异研究的各种早期职业科学家， 从人口科学到干预研究这项提案是由德雷克塞尔大学领导的一项合作， 德雷克塞尔的公共卫生和护理与健康护理学院的Dornsife学校，利用我们的 国家和国际公认的NIH和其他校外支持的研究，我们的社区为基础的 临床实践服务于多样化，服务不足的社区，以及我们共同的社会正义和 健康公平指导我们的教学，研究和招聘实践。我们的提议也强烈反映了德崇公司 大学坚定不移的承诺和新制定的战略目标，以促进包容性的卓越和 确保多样性，公平，保留，并促进跨越不同的教师在他们的职业道路。 我们提出的计划将创建一个合作结构，涉及大学领导的多层次投入， 学术单位和教师催化可持续的制度变革，支持科学和包容性 在开展健康差距研究方面的卓越表现。在FIRST计划的支持下，我们将聘请 并指导一个多元化（性别，种族，民族）的10个早期教师在三个集群谁是 具有竞争力的终身制研究职位与联合或二级任命跨相关 部门，计划，或学院，使用基于证据的，多层次的指导策略，在个人， 系，学院和大学层面，我们将形成一个科学严谨，支持学习 社区中，第一教师将从事个人和团体活动，导致提交的 竞争性NIH R 01研究提案。第一教师将被雇用谁是致力于多样性，其 研究涉及健康差异研究的三大支柱之一：检测（定义/测量健康 差异）、理解（确定差异的决定因素）和/或减少（干预，评估， 在跨领域专题领域（老龄化、慢性病和/或 环境决定因素）。发展和支持一支多样化的研究人员队伍已被确定为 以证据为基础的战略，推进新的方法，措施和新的多层次/多模式 采取干预措施，解决不平等问题，改善个人和人口的健康结果。我们将部署一个 以批判性和交叉性理论为指导的多层次、多方法的评价方法 偏见和结构性歧视做法的细微差别的经验，以及在 个人，部门，导师，学院和大学水平实现包容性卓越。我们的第一 该计划由国家/国际公认的人口健康，干预科学， 指导种族/民族多元化的教师和评估寻求包容性的方案。

PROJECT SUMMARY In response to the NIH U54 Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Program (RFA-RM-20-022), Drexel University proposes to establish a robust, transformative and sustainable program to support diverse early career scientists engaged in health disparities research spanning population science to intervention research. This proposal, a collaboration across Drexel University led by Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health and College of Nursing and Health Professions, leverages our nationally and internationally recognized NIH and other extramurally supported research, our community-based clinical practices serving diverse, underserved communities, and our shared core values of social justice and health equity guiding our pedagogy, research and hiring practices. Our proposal also strongly reflects Drexel University’s unwavering commitment and newly instituted strategic goals to promote inclusive excellence and ensure diversity, equity, retention, and promotion across for diverse faculty across their career pathways. Our proposed program will create a collaborative structure involving multi-level inputs from University leaders, academic units and faculty to catalyze sustainable institutional change that supports scientific and inclusive excellence in the conduct of health disparities research. With support from the FIRST program, we will hire and mentor a diverse (gender, race, ethnicity) group of 10 early-stage faculty in three clusters who are competitive for tenure-track research positions with joint or secondary appointments across relevant departments, programs, or colleges, Using evidence-based, multi-level mentorship strategies at the individual, department, college and university levels, we will form a scientifically rigorous and supportive learning community in which FIRST faculty will engage in individual and group activities leading to submissions of competitive NIH R01 research proposals. FIRST faculty will be hired who are committed to diversity and whose research addresses one of 3 pillars of health disparities research: detecting (defining/measuring health disparities), understanding (identifying determinants of disparities), and/or reducing (intervene, evaluate, translate, scale, policy) health inequities in cross-cutting thematic areas (aging, chronic disease, and/or environmental determinants). Developing and supporting a cadre of diverse researchers has been identified as an evidence-based strategy for advancing new methodologies, measures, and novel multi-level/multi-modal interventions that address inequities and improve individual and population health outcomes. We will deploy a multi-level and multi-methods evaluative approach guided by critical and intersectionality theories to evaluate nuanced experiences of bias and structural discriminatory practices as well as program successes at the individual, department, mentor, college and University levels of achieving inclusive excellence. Our FIRST Program is co-led by nationally/internationally recognized leaders in population health, intervention science, mentorship of racially/ethnically diverse faculty and evaluation of programs seeking inclusivity.