Transdisciplinary Training in Health Disparities Science (TTHDS)

描述（由申请人提供）：我国部分人口健康结果的持续差异强调了从多因素框架中理解和干预的必要性。健康差异科学（TTHDS）的跨学科培训计划为前和博士后研究员准备护士科学家，以利用他们工作的团体，社区和组织的文化来理解和描述不同的健康结果，干预以改善健康结果，并翻译和传播科学发现，以产生广泛的影响。拟议的TTHDS计划的目标是（1）使用跨学科的教育经验，准备护士进行严格的临床研究，改善健康行为和健康结果的弱势群体在整个生命周期，（2）发展研究人员的技能，利用文化的弱势群体在整个生命周期的理解和干预，以改善不同的，负面的健康结果，（3）指导受训人员在整个生命周期内对弱势群体进行健康研究的设计和道德行为，（4）培养研究员进行独立研究，并在整个生命周期内对弱势群体进行跨学科健康研究，及（5）培训研究员将研究成果转化为临床实践和基于循证实践原则的卫生政策。TTHDS计划将在目前的博士课程的基础上，通过在多学科背景下利用文化成分的领域扩大实质性内容。在该计划的5年期间，资金将支持10名博士前研究员和5名博士后研究员，每个研究员支持2年。在TTHDS计划的基础是教师赞助商的多样化的科学专业知识与积极的研究计划。此外，该计划将借鉴护理与健康创新学院的独特结构，融合了营养，运动与健康和健康科学计划，从而实现独特的跨学科/跨专业培训计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The continued disparity in health outcomes for segments of our nation's population underscores the need to understand and intervene from a multifactorial framework. The Transdisciplinary Training in Health Disparities Science (TTHDS) program for pre- and postdoctoral fellows will prepare nurse scientists to leverage the culture of the groups, communities, and organizations with whom they work to understand and describe disparate health outcomes, intervene to improve health outcomes, and translate and disseminate scientific findings for widespread impact. The objectives of the proposed TTHDS program are to (1) using transdisciplinary educational experiences, prepare nurses to conduct rigorous clinical research that improves healthy behaviors and health outcomes of vulnerable populations across the lifespan, (2) develop researcher skills in leveraging cultures of vulnerable populations across the lifespan for understanding and intervening to improve disparate, negative health outcomes, (3) mentor trainees in the design and ethical conduct of health research with vulnerable populations across the lifespan, (4) prepare fellows to conduct independent research and pursue careers in transdisciplinary health research with vulnerable populations across the lifespan, and (5) train fellows to translate research findings to clinical practice and health policy based on the principles of evidence-based practice. The TTHDS program will build on the current PhD program by expanding substantive content in the areas of leveraging cultural components within a multidisciplinary context. Over the 5-year period of the program, funding will support a total of 10 predoctoral and 5 postdoctoral fellows, with each fellow supported for a 2-year period. At the foundation of the TTHDS program is the diverse scientific expertise of faculty sponsors with active programs of research. The program will, moreover, draw from the unique structure of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation, a blend of Nutrition, Exercise & Wellness, and Health Sciences programs that allows for a distinctive transdisciplinary/interprofessional training program.