Strengthening Child Health Research Capacity in Resource Constrained Settings: Researcher Resilience Training (RRT)

项目摘要 这一竞争性的更新，“加强儿童健康研究能力在资源有限的设置” （简称Resilience Training，RRT）旨在推进和测试最先进的研究方法 为高级博士生和早期职业调查人员提供培训和“动手”研究经验， 特别是非洲人后裔或侧重于与非洲大陆有关的人口， 解决对儿童行为健康（CBH）的严重威胁，以及预防和护理方面的差距， 受贫穷影响的环境。RRT开发并支持一系列新的CBH研究者， 促进有关系统和社区一级结构性干预措施的科学知识， 非洲裔受贫困影响的青年承受的不成比例的健康负担， 保护性的家庭、邻里、系统支持;减少差距;促进种族和健康平等。 RRT由4个具体目标指导：目标1。招收5批高级博士生和早期职业 研究人员，致力于进行CBH预防，干预，服务，实施和扩大 在资源有限的环境中进行研究（研究员; 5年内n=45）;目标2。提供夏季研究 培训方案，旨在使研究员掌握应对资源匮乏环境中的挑战的技能 通过教学指导，辅导，“动手”沉浸在儿童和家庭为重点的研究，个性化 咨询、目标设定、监测和长期持续的资源支持;目标3。提前 学术界/社区/安全网系统在CBH和儿童福祉方面的研究伙伴关系;以及目标4。审查 RRT的短期和纵向影响（10个队列; n=90名RRT研究员）。研究员参加一个 在圣路易斯的华盛顿大学进行为期2周的面对面培训。研究员们会花4到6周的时间 嵌入在一组现有的CBH为重点的研究，专门由有色人种的研究人员领导。 具有先进方法专门知识的科学家为研究员提供深入的咨询和指导， 来自合作中心的种族，民族和公平的研究（CRE 2）除了WUSTL 教师。一个严格的混合方法评估跟踪个人的进展，以及RRT的影响 CBH研究合作伙伴关系。

PROJECT ABSTRACT This competing renewal, “Strengthening Child Health Research Capacity in Resource Constrained Settings” (referred to as Researcher Resilience Training, RRT) aims to advance and test state-of-the-art research methods training and “hands-on” research experience for advanced doctoral students and early career investigators, specifically those of African descent or focused on populations associated with the African continent, committed to addressing the serious threats to child behavioral health (CBH), as well as prevention and care disparities in poverty-impacted contexts. RRT develops and supports a pipeline of new CBH investigators who are prepared to advance scientific knowledge about system and community-level structural interventions that can address the disproportionate health burdens experienced by poverty-impacted youth of African descent via enhancing protective family, neighborhood, system supports; reducing disparities; and advancing racial and health equity. The RRT is guided by 4 Specific Aims: Aim 1. Recruit 5 cohorts of advanced doctoral students and early career investigators, committed to conducting CBH prevention, intervention, services, implementation, and scale-up research within resource-constrained settings (Fellows; n=45 across 5 years); Aim 2. Deliver a summer research training program aimed at equipping Fellows with skills to address the challenges in resource-poor settings through didactic instruction, mentoring, “hands-on” immersion in child- and family-focused studies, individualized consultation, goal setting, monitoring, and ongoing support in resources over time; Aim 3. Advance academic/community/safety net system research partnerships on CBH and child well-being; and Aim 4. Examine the short-term and longitudinal impact of RRT (across 10 cohorts; n=90 RRT Fellows). Fellows participate in a 2-week, face-to-face training program at Washington University in St. Louis. Fellows then spend 4 to 6 weeks embedded across a set of existing CBH-focused research studies, exclusively led by investigators of color. Scientists with advanced methods expertise provide intensive consultation and mentoring to Fellows and are drawn from the collaborating Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity (CRE2) in addition to WUSTL faculty. A rigorous mixed-methods evaluation tracks individual Fellow progress, as well as the impact of the RRT on overall CBH research partnerships.