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来理解和干预的必要性。健康差异科学的跨学科培训（TTHDS）计划将为博士后和博士后研究员准备护士科学家利用与他们合作的群体，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影响。拟议的TTHDS项目的目标是：(1)利用跨学科的教育经验，培养护士进行严格的临床研究，以改善弱势群体在整个生命周期中的健康行为和健康结果；(2)发展研究人员的技能，利用弱势群体在整个生命周期中的文化来理解和干预，以改善不同的、负面的健康结果。(3)指导受训者进行针对弱势群体的终身健康研究的设计和道德行为；(4)培养受训者进行独立研究并从事针对弱势群体的终身跨学科健康研究；(5)培训受训者根据循证实践原则将研究成果转化为临床实践和卫生政策。TTHDS项目将在现有博士项目的基础上，扩大在多学科背景下利用文化成分领域的实质性内容。在项目的5年时间里，资助10名博士前研究员和5名博士后，每名研究员的资助期为2年。TTHDS计划的基础是教师赞助的各种科学专业知识和积极的研究项目。此外，该项目将借鉴护理与健康创新学院的独特结构，将营养、运动与健康和健康科学项目结合起来，提供独特的跨学科/跨专业培训项目。

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. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Transdisciplinary Training in Health Disparities Science (TTHDS) program for pre- and postdoctoral fellows will prepare nurse scientists to design, conduct and evaluate research related to the culture of the groups, communities, and organizations with whom they work, with the aim of reducing disparate health outcomes. Coursework and seminar learning will be part of formal study to prepare nurses to conduct rigorous clinical research that improves healthy behaviors and health outcomes of vulnerable populations across the lifespan. The diverse scientific expertise of faculty sponsors with active programs of research, and the unique structure of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation that includes Nursing, Nutrition, Exercise & Wellness, and Health Sciences programs is the basis for this distinctive transdisciplinary training program.