Endowment for Cardiometabolic Health Disparities Research

项目摘要 心脏代谢健康差异研究基金会的长期目标是扩大 Meharry医学院（MMC）加强少数民族健康研究和研究培训的能力。的 该计划将解决非洲不成比例地普遍存在的心脏代谢健康方面的健康差距， 美国人在纳什维尔和戴维森县，集水区的MMC。我们会达到这个目标 通过招募一个成熟的锚教师，以建立智力能力，增加博士学位的数量， 来自健康差距研究中代表性不足背景的学生，提供跨学科研究 和领导力培训博士后研究员和初级教师从代表性不足的背景， 增加参与心血管健康差异研究的卫生专业人员的数量。到 为了实现我们的目标，有五项优先活动。优先活动1是培养学士到硕士到博士 与附近的本科HBCU机构合作的途径计划。我们将培养研究生 课程和建立一个新的博士培训研究生浓度在心脏代谢健康的差距 research.优先活动2是聘请高级磁铁心血管科学家和初级科学家， 研究人员的语料库。优先活动3是为博士后研究员制定一个研究领导计划， 早期终身教职的教师在医学和科学方面的代表性不足，使他们能够成功地 建立他们的独立研究计划，并过渡到成功的终身教职地位。优先活动4是 建立一个年度总统研讨会，使有成就的，全国公认的杰出研究人员， Meharry校区展示并与我们的博士候选人和教师进行新的网络/指导 机会优先活动5是投资于研究基础设施，以推动我们的技术创新。 校园实验，数据收集和转化研究，重点是健康的差距， 心脏代谢疾病通过S21机制获得的捐赠资金，我们将提供强大的 提供培训机会，鼓励更多人参与以心脏代谢为重点的健康差异研究 疾病其影响将是建立一个可持续的方案，其中包括健康差异课程， 研究生，博士后研究员终身教职教师发展途径，和一个关键的语料库， 健康差异研究人员，在心脏代谢健康领域开展积极的研究项目 差距。利用我们与邻近的本科HBCU正在进行的学术关系，培训 与田纳西州立大学和菲斯克大学合作的途径，位于一英里的走廊， MMC将为教学和研究创造一个学术环境，以应对停止和 减少美国少数民族人群心血管健康差距的扩大。

Project Abstract The long-term objective of the Endowment for Cardiometabolic Health Disparities Research is to expand the capacity of Meharry Medical College (MMC) to enhance research and research training in minority health. The program will address health disparities in cardiometabolic health disproportionately prevalent in the African Americans in Nashville and Davidson County, the catchment areas of MMC. We will accomplish this objective by recruiting a well-established anchor faculty to build intellectual capacity, increasing the number of PhD students from underrepresented backgrounds in health disparity research, providing interdisciplinary research and leadership training to postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty from underrepresented backgrounds, and increasing the number of health professional faculty involved in cardiovascular health disparity research. To achieve our goal, there are 5 priority activities. Priority Activity 1 is to develop a bachelors to masters to PhD pathway program in partnership with nearby undergraduate HBCU institutions. We will develop graduate curriculum and establish a new PhD training graduate concentration in cardiometabolic health disparities research. Priority Activity 2 is to hire a Senior Magnet Cardiovascular Scientist and Junior Scientist to build a corpus of researchers. Priority Activity 3 is to develop a research leadership program for postdoctoral fellows to early-stage tenure-track faculty underrepresented in medicine and science to allow them to successfully establish their independent research programs and transition to successful tenure status. Priority Activity 4 is to establish an annual Presidents Seminar to bring accomplished, nationally recognized prominent researchers on the Meharry campus to present and to engage with our PhD candidates and faculty for new networking/mentoring opportunities. Priority Activity 5 is to invest in research infrastructure to advance technological innovation on our campus for experimentation, data collection, and translational research focused on health disparities of cardiometabolic disease. With endowment funds secured through the S21 mechanism, we will provide robust training opportunities to encourage more participation in health disparities research focused on cardiometabolic diseases. The impact will be establishment of a sustainable program that includes health disparity curricula for graduate students, a postdoctoral fellow to tenure-track faculty development pathway, and a critical corpus of health disparity researchers with active research projects in the area focused on cardiometabolic health disparities. Leveraging our ongoing academic relationships with the neighboring undergraduate HBCUs, training pathways in partnership with Tennessee State University and Fisk University, located in the one-mile corridor of MMC, will create a scholarly environment for teaching and research to address the challenge of halting and reducing the widening gap of cardiovascular health disparities within the minority populations of the US.