The CORAL Training Core

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ABSTRACT - CORAL Training Core Ending the maternal behavioral health crisis among Black women requires developing a new generation of scientists, evidence, and interventions that (1) bridges historically siloed approaches to behavioral health and maternal health, and (2) is authentically community engaged. Developing this new generation of scientists, evidence, and interventions requires a paradigm shift in how we train and who we train as research investigators and as knowledge producers. It requires a transdisciplinary approach to identifying and intervening in the multilayered factors that that shape maternal behavioral health conditions among Black women, and demands effective training in ethically engaging communities for just knowledge production and impactful translation. The CORAL Training Core is designed to develop this new generation of scientists, evidence, and interventions that will help end the maternal behavioral health crisis among Black women. It will serve a pivotal role in promoting community-engaged research, developing early-stage investigators (ESIs), and building transdisciplinary research capacity at the intersection of maternal health and behavioral health with a focus on Black pregnant and postpartum women. It will leverage unique strengths of CORAL’s Community Partnership Core and established relationships across Morehouse School of Medicine, Emory University, and community partners to weave a focus on ethical community-engaged research into its approach to: (1) Provide mentoring and career development for ESIs, with a particular focus on URM ESIs; (2) Build research capacity among ESIs and established investigators for effective, ethical, community-engaged research and dissemination; (3) Develop and administer a CORAL Project Program to provide >$520,000 in research funding – most leveraged via in-kind support - for ESI, particularly URMs, to support their career development in maternal behavioral health research and interventions with Black pregnant/ postpartum women; and (4) Enhance collaboration with non-academic partners and other Centers of Excellence. The Training Core will be co-led by two faculty with complementary training, experience, and expertise: Dr. Dawn Tyus, Project Director and Principal Investigator for the African American Behavioral Health Center of Excellence at Morehouse School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Kramer, Director of the Maternal and Child Health Center of Excellence at Emory Rollins School of Public Health. By achieving its aims, CORAL’s Training Core will develop the next generation of transdisciplinary, community-engaged scientists, evidence, and interventions needed to end the maternal behavioral health crisis among Black women.