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

项目总结 响应NIH U54机构招聘促进可持续转型(First)计划 (RFA-RM-20-022)，德雷克塞尔大学建议建立一个稳健、变革和可持续的 支持从事健康差异研究的不同早期职业科学家的计划 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项目 德雷克塞尔的多恩西夫公共卫生学院和护理与健康专业学院，利用我们的 国家和国际公认的NIH和其他外部支持的研究，我们的社区为基础 临床实践服务于不同的、未得到充分服务的社区，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雷克塞尔 大学坚定不移的承诺和新制定的战略目标，以促进包容性卓越和 确保不同教员在职业生涯中的多样性、公平性、留任和晋升。 我们提议的计划将创建一个涉及大学领导的多层次投入的协作结构， 学术单位和教职员工推动可持续的制度变革，支持科学和包容性 在健康差距研究方面的卓越表现。在第一个项目的支持下，我们将招聘 并指导一个由三个集群中的10名早期教师组成的多元化(性别、种族、民族)小组，他们是 竞争终身制研究职位，在相关领域联合或二级任命 系、项目或学院，在个人使用基于证据的、多层次的指导策略， 系、学院和大学层面，我们将形成科学严谨的支持性学习 第一教员将参与个人和小组活动的社区，导致提交 竞争性的NIH R01研究提案。首先将聘用致力于多样性的教师，他们 研究涉及健康差距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、 翻译、衡量、政策)交叉主题领域(老龄化、慢性病和/或)的健康不平等 环境决定因素)。发展和支持一支由不同研究人员组成的队伍已被确定为 基于证据的战略，以推进新的方法、措施和新的多层次/多模式 解决不平等问题并改善个人和人口健康结果的干预措施。我们将部署一支 以批判性和交叉性理论为指导的多层次、多方法评价方法 偏见和结构性歧视性做法的微妙经验以及方案在 个人、部门、导师、学院和大学的水平，以实现包容性卓越。我们的第一次 该计划由国家/国际公认的人口健康、干预科学、 指导不同种族/民族的教师，并评估寻求包容性的项目。

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.