Training Program

《2010年健康人口》的首要目标之一是消除健康差距(1)。在这些国家目标的基础上，2002年，医学研究所发布了一份关于健康差距的里程碑式报告(2)。报告提出了许多解决不平等问题的建议，其中主要是继续研究差距问题（建议7.1、7.4、8.1和8.2）。在呼吁加强对健康差距的研究的同时，人们认识到，在通过传统研究产生的知识与将这种研究转化为改善各群体、特别是少数群体健康的干预措施和政策之间仍然存在巨大差距。因此，医学研究所还呼吁在学术调查人员和受这种差异影响的社区之间建立合作研究伙伴关系，通过这种伙伴关系，在设计干预措施时利用了解和确定健康差异优先次序方面的当地知识（3,4）。这种方法通常被称为基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR），它将社区成员作为研究过程中的平等伙伴，并增加研究对研究人员和被研究社区代表的价值，从而使他们投入到研究成果的传播和使用中，并最终减少健康差距（5,6）。NIH最近的几个RFA已经明确地关注CBPR(4)。然而，人们常常

Chief among the overarching goals of Healthy People 2010 was the elimination of health disparities(1). Building on these national goals, in 2002, the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report on health disparities(2). The report outiined numerous recommendations to address inequalities, chief among these were for continued research on disparities (recommendations 7.1, 7.4, 8.1 and 8.2). Parallel to such calls for increased research on health disparities, has been the realization that there remains a tremendous gap between knowledge produced through conventional research and the translation of this research into interventions and policies to improve the health of various groups, especially minority communities. Thus, the Institute of Medicine also called for forging of collaborative research partnerships between academic investigators and communities affected by such disparities through which local knowledge in the understanding and prioritizing of health disparities is employed in the design of interventions(3,4). This approach often called Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) employs community members as equal partners in the research process and increases the value of studies for both researchers and representatives of the community being studied so that they are invested in the dissemination and use of research findings and ultimately in the reduction of health disparities(5,6). Already several recent RFA's by the NIH have explicitly focused on CBPR(4). However, one often overiooked aspect of health disparities problems are the limited number of well-trained competitive researchers in biomedical and behavioral sciences trained in both health disparities and CBPR methodologies(6-8).