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

项目摘要 教师发展核心（FDC）的总体目标是制定和实施最佳实践， 该部门，学院和大学的指导和支持不同的早期教师致力于 健康差距研究，并加强研究发展和调查人员开展健康 差异研究和提交有竞争力的NIH R 01资助申请。早期职业教师将代表 不同种族和民族，致力于并参与健康差异研究的频谱 （检测、理解、减少）并专注于我们的一个集群领域（老龄化、慢性病和 环境决定因素）。核心的具体目标是（1）提供专业发展， 实施指导和赞助的最佳实践，以支持FIRST的职业发展 教师队伍，并为他们成功晋升和终身教职做好准备;（2）支持研究发展 最大限度地提高队列的能力，以获得R 01类型的研究经费，他们的第三年 （3）建立一个助理教授社区，特别关注健康差距（从 人口健康到干预），以增加对健康差距的高影响跨学科研究 德雷克塞尔大学的研究我们将通过一套以证据为基础的结构化和 非结构化活动，包括：（1）对交叉性敏感的一对一辅导;（2）同行和近同行 指导（3）使用咨询模式，（4）编写问责小组，（5）专业发展 讲习班（5）支持教学和（6）研究开发活动，包括赠款写作训练营 和赠款审查活动。此外，我们还将开展网络和科学交流活动， 促进包容文化，减少孤立，促进跨学科和协作卫生 在整个大学的差距研究一般。我们的科学前提是， 这些目标将使第一教师能够提高他们的奖学金，并导致提交竞争力 NIH R 01有可能促进健康差异研究并影响个人和人群 健康成果。我们将利用已经实施的计划和政策以及丰富的健康差距 在德雷克塞尔大学的研究环境，以制定一个创新的全面教师发展计划 支持FIRST队列的成员，并提供成功的途径，不仅有利于 第一个队列，但可以扩大规模，以造福德雷克塞尔大学作为一个整体。我们的创新方面 方法包括强烈关注从病因学到健康差异研究的跨学科方法 到干预，公共卫生和护理和卫生专业的桥梁（与其他 艺术，科学和医学等领域），在城市大学的基础，坚定地致力于 公民参与，以及作为健康差异研究和健康教育的卓越中心的力量杠杆， 大学环境致力于多样性和包容性反映在最近的增长和投资。

PROJECT SUMMARY The overarching goals of the Faculty Development Core (FDC) are to develop and implement best practices at the department, college and university for mentoring and supporting diverse early-stage faculty dedicated to health disparities research and to enhance research development and investigator capacity to conduct health disparities research and submit competitive NIH R01 grant applications. Early career faculty will represent diverse races and ethnicities, be committed to and engaged in the spectrum of health disparities research (detecting, understanding, reducing) and focus in one of our cluster areas (aging, chronic disease and environmental determinants). The specific aims of core are (1) To provide professional development and implement best practices for mentoring and sponsorship to support the career development of the FIRST faculty cohort and prepare them for successful promotion and tenure; (2) To support the research development of the FIRST cohort to maximize the ability of the cohort to obtain R01-type research funding by their third year on faculty; and (3) To build a community of Assistant Professors with a special focus on health disparities (from population health to intervention) to increase high impact interdisciplinary research on health disparities research at Drexel University. We will accomplish these aims through a set of evidence-based structured and unstructured activities including: (1) one-on-one mentoring sensitive to intersectionality; (2) peer and near-peer mentoring (3) use of the consultancy model, (4) writing accountability groups, (5) professional development workshops (5) support for teaching and (6) research development activities including a grant writing bootcamp and grant review activities. In addition, we will implement networking and scientific exchange events to promote a culture of inclusion, reduce isolation and promote interdisciplinary and collaborative health disparities research across the University generally. Our scientific premise is that successful implementation of these aims will enable FIRST faculty to advance their scholarship and result in the submission of competitive NIH R01s which have potential to advance health disparities research and impact individual and population health outcomes. We will leverage programs and policies already in place as well as a rich health disparities research environment at Drexel University to develop an innovative comprehensive faculty development plan that supports the members of the FIRST Cohort and provides a pathway to success that will not only benefit the FIRST cohort but can be scaled up to benefit Drexel University as a whole. Innovative aspects of our approach include the strong focus on interdisciplinary approaches to health disparities research from etiology to intervention, the bridging of public health and nursing and health professions (with connections to other areas such as arts and sciences and medicine), the grounding in an urban university strongly committed to civic engagement, and the leveraging of strength as a center of excellence in health disparities research and a University context committed to diversity and inclusion reflected in recent growth and investments.