Spelman College Center for Health Disparities Research and Education

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的10年里，斯佩尔曼学院在加强其研究基础设施方面取得了显着的成功。这些成就直接来自于1996年和2002年授予的RIMI基金的有效利用和管理，也强调了强有力的机构承诺对推进生物医学和行为科学领域的教师研究开发和生产力的影响。拟议中的项目，“斯佩尔曼学院中心健康差异研究和教育，”旨在进一步通过专注于健康差异研究，通过一个程序，建立在环境，生物医学，行为和社会科学的教师的优势发展这些成就。具体来说，该中心将提供一个动态的平台，支持和协调来自不同学科的教师在学院的健康差距研究工作，同时强调健康差距研究的环境因素。将这些多学科观点结合起来，以解决健康差距问题，将有助于交流创新思想。与环境保护局，莫尔豪斯医学院健康差异卓越中心，疾病控制和预防中心以及莫尔豪斯学院健康差异研究中心的研究合作将有助于提供加强教师和学生研究培训和发展的机会。通过为健康差异的合作研究提供竞争性支持，以及为初级教师提供指导和启动资金，健康差异研究和教育中心将成为研究支持的有效来源。该中心还将每年资助一名健康差异博士后研究员，他将与跨学科的教师研究团队合作，每年教授两门课程。此外，还将设立一个健康差距研究学者计划，以建立一个致力于健康差距研究和研究生培训的多学科本科学者社区。这种教师和学生在健康差距的研究开发活动的协同组合将产生关于加强在斯佩尔曼学院的研究基础设施的显着成果。该计划的总体使命是通过实施以下战略目标积极影响健康差距：1）扩大斯佩尔曼在健康差距和环境健康方面的参与; 2）提高教师在健康差距方面的研究生产力; 3）增加进入健康差距研究生课程的非洲裔美国女学生人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Spelman College has achieved remarkable success in strengthening its research infrastructure over the past 10 years. Resulting directly from the effective utilization and management of RIMI funds awarded in 1996 and 2002, these achievements also underscore the impact of strong institutional commitment to advancing faculty research development and productivity in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The proposed project, "The Spelman College Center for Health Disparities Research and Education," aims to further these achievements by focusing on health disparities research through the development of a program that builds on the strengths of faculty in environmental, biomedical, behavioral, and social sciences. Specifically, the Center will provide a dynamic platform for supporting and coordinating the health disparities research efforts of faculty from diverse academic disciplines at the College, while emphasizing environmental factors in health disparities research. Integrating these multidisciplinary perspectives to address health disparities will allow for the exchange of innovative ideas. Research collaborations with the Environmental Protection Agency, the Morehouse School of Medicine Center of Excellence on Health Disparities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Morehouse College Research Center on Health Disparities will be instrumental in providing opportunities to strengthen faculty and student research training and development. By providing competitive support for collaborative research in health disparities, as well as offering mentorship and startup funds for junior faculty, the Center for Health Disparities Research and Education will be an efficient source of research support. The Center will also fund one Health Disparities Postdoctoral Fellow per year, who will work with an interdisciplinary faculty research team and teach two courses per year. In addition, a Health Disparities Research Scholars Program will be established to build a multidisciplinary community of undergraduate scholars committed to health disparities research and graduate training. This synergistic combination of faculty and student research development activities in health disparities will yield significant outcomes with respect to strengthening the research infrastructure at Spelman College. The overall mission of this program is to positively impact health disparities through the implementation of the following strategic goals: 1) To broaden Spelman's participation in health disparities and environmental health; 2) To increase faculty research productivity in health disparities; and 3) To increase the numbers of African American women students entering graduate programs in health disparities.