Training Program

2010年健康人的首要目标是消除健康差距(1)。在这些国家目标的基础上，2002年，医学研究所发布了一份关于健康差距的里程碑式的报告(2)。报告提出了许多解决不平等问题的建议，其中最主要的是继续研究不平等问题(建议7.1、7.4、8.1和8.2)。在呼吁增加对健康差距的研究的同时，人们认识到，通过常规研究产生的知识与将这项研究转化为改善各种群体、特别是少数群体健康的干预措施和政策之间仍然存在巨大差距。因此，医学研究所还呼吁在学术研究人员和受这种差异影响的社区之间建立合作研究伙伴关系，通过这种伙伴关系，在设计干预措施时利用当地在了解和确定健康差异的优先次序方面的知识(3，4)。这种方法通常被称为基于社区的参与性研究，将社区成员作为研究过程中的平等伙伴，增加了研究人员和被研究社区代表的研究价值，以便他们投资于研究成果的传播和使用，并最终减少健康差距(5，6)。美国国立卫生研究院最近的几份RFA已经明确地将重点放在了CBPR上(4)。然而，一个人经常 健康差距问题令人担忧的方面是训练有素的竞争性研究人员数量有限 在生物医学和行为科学方面接受过健康差距和CBPR方法学方面的培训(6-8)。

Chief among the overarching goals of Healthy People 2010 was the elimination of health disparities(1). Building on these national goals, in 2002, the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report on health disparities(2). The report outiined numerous recommendations to address inequalities, chief among these were for continued research on disparities (recommendations 7.1, 7.4, 8.1 and 8.2). Parallel to such calls for increased research on health disparities, has been the realization that there remains a tremendous gap between knowledge produced through conventional research and the translation of this research into interventions and policies to improve the health of various groups, especially minority communities. Thus, the Institute of Medicine also called for forging of collaborative research partnerships between academic investigators and communities affected by such disparities through which local knowledge in the understanding and prioritizing of health disparities is employed in the design of interventions(3,4). This approach often called Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) employs community members as equal partners in the research process and increases the value of studies for both researchers and representatives of the community being studied so that they are invested in the dissemination and use of research findings and ultimately in the reduction of health disparities(5,6). Already several recent RFA's by the NIH have explicitly focused on CBPR(4). However, one often overiooked aspect of health disparities problems are the limited number of well-trained competitive researchers in biomedical and behavioral sciences trained in both health disparities and CBPR methodologies(6-8).