Mentored postdoctoral training in health disparities and community-partnered part

描述(由申请人提供)：查尔斯·R·德鲁大学(CDU)拟议的CRECD项目是一个第二阶段指导的临床研究和职业发展指导博士后培训项目，旨在培养一支多元化的临床和翻译研究队伍，他们对疾病的根本原因，特别是那些对美国少数族裔人口影响极大的疾病(如艾滋病毒/艾滋病、癌症、心血管疾病、糖尿病和精神健康/精神障碍)进行创新研究，并促进临床和翻译科学领域的专业发展活动。在最初的5年计划期间，CRECD计划将在CDU接受总共8名初级教员级别的博士后实习生，每个人的任期为3年，在聘期内错开。CRECD计划将嵌入到CDU现有的广泛的临床研究和培训基础设施中，因此将与CDU的其他研究教育和职业发展计划相互利用资源，以实现最大的跨计划协同效应，以及利用与CRECD议程相关的现有教育和培训课程和相关资源所产生的效率。然而，CRECD计划也将通过(1)专门关注健康差距和在研究和研究培训议程中掌握社区合作伙伴参与方法，(2)为每个受训者提供首创的此类密集和社区沉浸式指导配置，其中包括来自标准或传统学术职业轨道和新出现的社区教师轨道的CDU教师，称为健康与健康平等伙伴关系，从而在更广泛的CDU科学产生“临界群体”中开辟一个独特的培训和职业发展机会。这一密集的指导创新直接来自于一种标志性的学员指导配置，并将其正式化和系统化，这是CDU社区参与研究、培训和教育课程的悠久而富有成效的历史。作为一项综合研究培训和职业发展一揽子计划，这种方法旨在将健康的社会决定因素带入分子和临床研究的前沿。归根结底，目标是 通过全面传播研究结果，增加社区学术合作研究的影响，并采用循证最佳做法，以鼓励和促进在保健组织和最需要可靠获得高质量护理的社区内实施循证治疗和预防做法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed CRECD Program at Charles R. Drew University (CDU), Mentored Postdoctoral Training in Translational Research, is a Phase II mentored clinical research and career development program designed to develop a diverse cadre of clinical and translational investigators who conduct innovative research on the underlying causes of diseases, in particular those diseases that disproportionately impact minority populations in the United States (e.g., HIV/AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and mental health/psychiatric disorders), and to foster and facilitate professional development activities in clinical and translational sciences. Over the initial 5-year program period, the CRECD Program will accept a total of eight postdoctoral trainees at the junior faculty level at CDU, each for 3-year appointments, staggered in appointment periods. The CRECD Program will be embedded within the existing, extensive clinical research and training infrastructure at CDU, and thus will mutually leverage resources with other CDU research education and career development programs so as to achieve maximal cross-program synergies as well as efficiencies wrought from utilizing already-in-place education and training curricula and related resources germane to the CRECD agenda. However, the CRECD Program will also carve out a unique niche of training and career development opportunities within the broader CDU science-generating "critical mass" by (1) focusing exclusively on health disparities and mastery of community-partnered participatory methods in the research and research training agenda and (2) providing to each trainee a first-of-its-kind (at CDU and, by our estimate, nationwide) intensive and community-immersive mentoring configuration that includes CDU faculty from both the standard or conventional Academic Career track and the newly emerging Community Faculty track, called the Partnership for Equity and Equality in Health and Wellness. This intensive mentoring innovation directly emerges from, and formalizes and systematizes into a signature trainee mentoring configuration, a long and fruitful history of community-engaged research, training, and educational curricula at CDU. As an integrated research training and career development package, this approach is designed to bring social determinants of health to the forefront of molecular and clinical research. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the impact of community- academic partnered research and adoption of its evidence-based best practices through comprehensive dissemination of research findings so as to encourage and facilitate implementation of evidence-based treatment and prevention practices within health care organizations and the communities most in need of reliable access to high-quality care.