Patient Oriented Research and Mentorship in Childhood Obesity Disparities

以患者为中心的儿童肥胖差异研究和指导

• 批准号: 9314561
• 负责人: Elsie Mireya Taveras Benavidez
• 金额: $ 18.68万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-28 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9314561
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite recent progress in obesity prevention, the prevalence of childhood obesity remains at historically high levels. Racial and ethnic minorities and children from disadvantaged backgrounds suffer a disproportionate share of the national obesity burden and these disparities emerge as early as the first two years of life. Many factors contribute to the intractability of obesity but promising approaches for prevention and reduction of related health disparities are emerging including cross-sector strategies that support changes at the individual, family, and systems-levels and which begin in the earliest stages of life. The overall goals of this K24 application are to provide Dr. Elsie Taveras with protected time to perform research to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds and to train students, fellows, and junior faculty who wish to perform patient-oriented outcomes research in childhood obesity. Dr. Taveras is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, and a Pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. She leads several large patient-oriented research studies including an epidemiologic study examining early life origins of childhood obesity disparities; a whole-of-community intervention to prevent obesity among disadvantaged children ages 2-12 years; and a clinical-community intervention to reduce obesity among school-age children. Dr. Taveras has already successfully served as a research mentor to more than a dozen MD and PhD candidates and clinicians in training. This K24 award would come at a critical time in Dr. Taveras's career as it will allow her to heighten research productivity in the area of childhood obesity disparities and help foster the careers of junior childhood obesity scientists through her mentorship. The proposed scientific aims of this K24 application will serve to strengthen Dr. Taveras's ability to provide mentorship to junior investigators in patient-oriented research, with an emphasis on: (a) understanding the early, contextual roots of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity; (b) attaining broad insights into effective cross-sector strategies for preventing obesity in early life; and (c) translating observational epidemiology int interventions to reduce early life obesity risk factors.

 描述（由申请人提供）：尽管最近在预防肥胖方面取得了进展，但儿童肥胖的患病率仍处于历史高水平。种族和族裔少数群体以及来自弱势背景的儿童在全国肥胖负担中所占比例不成比例，这些差异早在生命的头两年就出现了。许多因素导致肥胖的顽固性，但有前途的方法，预防和减少相关的健康差距正在出现，包括跨部门的战略，支持在个人，家庭和系统层面的变化，并在生命的最早阶段开始开始。这个K24应用程序的总体目标是为Elsie Taveras博士提供受保护的时间来进行研究，以减少儿童肥胖症的患病率，特别是在种族和少数民族以及来自弱势背景的人中，并培训希望在儿童肥胖症中进行以患者为导向的结果研究的学生，研究员和初级教师。Taveras博士是哈佛医学院的儿科副教授，哈佛公共卫生学院的营养学副教授，以及马萨诸塞州儿童总医院的儿科医生。她领导了几项大型的以患者为导向的研究，包括一项流行病学研究，研究儿童肥胖差异的早期起源;一项预防2-12岁弱势儿童肥胖的全社区干预措施;以及一项减少学龄儿童肥胖的临床社区干预措施。Taveras博士已经成功地担任了十几名MD和PhD候选人和临床医生的研究导师。这个K24奖将在Taveras博士职业生涯的关键时刻到来，因为它将使她能够提高儿童肥胖差异领域的研究生产力，并通过她的指导帮助促进初级儿童肥胖科学家的职业生涯。这项K24申请的拟议科学目标将有助于加强Taveras博士在以患者为导向的研究中为初级研究人员提供指导的能力，重点是：（a）了解肥胖症中种族/民族和社会经济差异的早期背景根源;（B）获得广泛的见解，以有效地预防早期肥胖症的跨部门战略;以及（c）将观察性流行病学转化为干预措施，以减少早期肥胖风险因素。