HCHDS Investigator Development Core

项目摘要 Investigator Development Core(IDC)的总体目标是通过以下方式创建更多样化的生物医疗员工队伍 培养一支致力于调查如何以地点为基础的新调查人员的能力 影响少数群体健康和健康差距的决定因素。这一目标将在很大程度上通过竞争性的 申请流程，以确定博士后实习生、初级教员和其他早期调查人员 被称为健康差异学者。这些学者将拥有发展和发展的技能 在研究方法支持小组的支持下，实施尖端的试点研究 管理核心，并将研究结果翻译和传播给研究、政策和实践受众 在社区参与和传播核心的支持下。除了资金和 方法支持，健康差异学者也将获得职业发展的机会 计划、培训和指导，以及对试点项目的监督直至完成。IDC将利用其他 创新中心计划，建立在该领域超过10年的专业知识和领导地位的基础上，通过 “健康差距和健康不平等证书”；教师、博士后研究员和 研究生；以及对公众和校园社区开放的系列讲座。钥匙 IDC的成果是创建一个致力于基于地点的决定因素研究的学者社区 他们能够成功地获得外部研究资金并推动该领域的发展。

Project Summary The overall goal of Investigator Development Core (IDC) is to create a more diverse biomedical workforce by building the capacity of a cadre of new investigators who are committed to investigating how place-based determinants impact minority health and health disparities. This goal will be largely achieved via a competitive application process to identify postdoctoral trainees, junior faculty, and other early stage investigators that will be called Health Disparities Scholars. These Scholars will be equipped with the skills to develop and implement cutting edge pilot studies, with support of the Research Methods Support Team in the Administrative Core, and translate and disseminate the findings to research, policy, and practice audiences with support from the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core. In addition to funding and methodological support, Health Disparities Scholars will also be provided with access to a career development program, training and mentoring, and oversight of the pilot projects to completion. The IDC will leverage other innovative Center programs that build on over 10 years of expertise and leadership in the field through the “Certificate in Health Disparities and Health Inequality”; journal club for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students; and a lecture series that is open to the public and the campus community. The key outcome of the IDC is to create a community of scholars committed to the study of place-based determinants who are able to successfully obtain external research funding and advance the field.