Mentored postdoctoral training in health disparities and community-partnered part

描述（由申请人提供）：Charles R. Drew大学（CDU）拟议的CRECD项目，即指导博士后转化研究培训，是一个II期指导临床研究和职业发展项目，旨在培养一支多样化的临床和转化研究人员队伍，他们对疾病的潜在原因进行创新研究，特别是那些对美国少数民族人口影响不成比例的疾病(如艾滋病毒/艾滋病、癌症、心血管疾病、糖尿病和精神健康/精神疾病)，并促进和促进临床和转化科学的专业发展活动。在最初的5年计划期内，CRECD计划将在CDU的初级教师水平上接受总共8名博士后培训生，每个人的聘期为3年，聘期错开。CRECD项目将嵌入CDU现有的广泛的临床研究和培训基础设施中，因此将与CDU其他研究教育和职业发展项目相互利用资源，从而实现最大的跨项目协同效应，并通过利用现有的教育和培训课程以及与CRECD议程相关的相关资源实现效率。然而，CRECD项目还将在CDU更广泛的科学产生“临界质量”中开辟一个独特的培训和职业发展机会利基，通过(1)专门关注健康差距和掌握社区合作参与方法的研究和研究培训议程；(2)为每个学员提供第一个(在CDU，据我们估计，全国范围内)密集和社区沉浸式的指导配置，包括来自标准或传统学术职业轨道和新出现的社区教师轨道的CDU教师，称为健康与健康公平与平等伙伴关系。这种密集的指导创新直接来自于CDU社区参与的研究、培训和教育课程的悠久而富有成效的历史，并将其形式化和系统化，形成了一个标志性的学员指导配置。作为一个综合的研究培训和职业发展一揽子计划，这种方法旨在将健康的社会决定因素带到分子和临床研究的前沿。最终，我们的目标是

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed CRECD Program at Charles R. Drew University (CDU), Mentored Postdoctoral Training in Translational Research, is a Phase II mentored clinical research and career development program designed to develop a diverse cadre of clinical and translational investigators who conduct innovative research on the underlying causes of diseases, in particular those diseases that disproportionately impact minority populations in the United States (e.g., HIV/AIDS, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and mental health/psychiatric disorders), and to foster and facilitate professional development activities in clinical and translational sciences. Over the initial 5-year program period, the CRECD Program will accept a total of eight postdoctoral trainees at the junior faculty level at CDU, each for 3-year appointments, staggered in appointment periods. The CRECD Program will be embedded within the existing, extensive clinical research and training infrastructure at CDU, and thus will mutually leverage resources with other CDU research education and career development programs so as to achieve maximal cross-program synergies as well as efficiencies wrought from utilizing already-in-place education and training curricula and related resources germane to the CRECD agenda. However, the CRECD Program will also carve out a unique niche of training and career development opportunities within the broader CDU science-generating "critical mass" by (1) focusing exclusively on health disparities and mastery of community-partnered participatory methods in the research and research training agenda and (2) providing to each trainee a first-of-its-kind (at CDU and, by our estimate, nationwide) intensive and community-immersive mentoring configuration that includes CDU faculty from both the standard or conventional Academic Career track and the newly emerging Community Faculty track, called the Partnership for Equity and Equality in Health and Wellness. This intensive mentoring innovation directly emerges from, and formalizes and systematizes into a signature trainee mentoring configuration, a long and fruitful history of community-engaged research, training, and educational curricula at CDU. As an integrated research training and career development package, this approach is designed to bring social determinants of health to the forefront of molecular and clinical research. Ultimately, the goal is to increase the impact of community- academic partnered research and adoption of its evidence-based best practices through comprehensive dissemination of research findings so as to encourage and facilitate implementation of evidence-based treatment and prevention practices within health care organizations and the communities most in need of reliable access to high-quality care.