Strategic Academic Research Training Core (START)

项目摘要 在解决少数群体的健康和健康差距方面需要多样化的劳动力，这需要全国性的努力 来解决。劳动力的多样性可能来自文化和种族背景，社会经济地位 以及大学规模、研究范围和研究人员概况的独特性。在不影响 在美国各地的传统研究中心、规模较小的学校和 那些为代表性不足的人口服务的人在培训多样化的 劳动力庞塞健康科学大学是相当小的大学在南部波多黎各提供MD，MS， 博士和博士在医学，生物医学科学，心理学和公共卫生，以西班牙裔为主 学生的人口。我们的教师都沉浸在当地和国家波多黎各社区，并有 文化能力，语言技能和信任，以解决广泛和具体的健康差距 在波多黎各人和其他拉美裔人中。我们提出了一个研究者发展核心， 学术研究培训（START）为我们的初级教师学者，以提高他们带来的多样性， 科学劳动力。START的核心是基于这样一个假设，即如果我们提供战略培训和团队， 通过对个别学者的指导，他们将更快地获得独立的资金和职业发展。 提出了三个目标：（1）在学院教师中确定的需要领域实施有针对性的培训 医学，大脑和行为科学学院，公共卫生计划;（2）匹配学者与 导师团队，以满足科学和职业专业知识需求;以及（3）提供严格的审查和选择 为开发数据和出版物提供试点资金的项目， 少数民族健康和健康差距的校外研究资金。我们教师的范围和需求 PHSU先前在试点资金和初级研究人员方面的经验已经很好地确定了START将解决的问题 发展（因此，基于实践经验和针对我们的教师）。START的目标是发展我们的 学者进入资助（赠款），生产研究人员（出版物，科学家培训）在卫生工作 差异，并支持他们的学术职业发展（晋升），同时培养独特的 不同科学家的背景和方法，其职业轨迹与 精英研究型大学常见的传统模式。这种独特的培训，文化能力和多样性 社区信任是获得创造性和有影响力的研究解决方案的重要组成部分， 少数群体健康和保健结果的持续差异。

PROJECT SUMMARY The need for a diverse workforce in addressing minority health and health disparities requires a national effort to address. Diversity among the workforce can come from cultural and racial background, socioeconomic status and the unique nature of the university size, scope of research and investigator profile. While not detracting from the impact of the research done at the traditional research powerhouses across the US, smaller schools and those serving a predominantly underrepresented population play a uniquely valuable role in training a diverse workforce. Ponce Health Sciences University is fairly small university in southern Puerto Rico offering MD, MS, PhD, and DrPH in medicine, biomedical sciences, psychology and public health to a predominantly hispanic population of students. Our faculty are immersed in the local and national Puerto Rican communities and have the cultural competence, language skills and trust to address health disparities broadly and also specifically among Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics. We propose an investigator development core to provide STrategic Academic Research Training (START) for our junior faculty Scholars to enhance the diversity they bring to the scientific workforce. The START core is based on the hypothesis that if we provide strategic training and team mentoring to individual Scholars, they will more quickly achieve independent funding and career advancement. Three aims are proposed to (1) implement targeted training in areas of need identified in our faculty in the School of Medicine, School of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, and Public Health Program; (2) match scholars with a team of mentors to cover scientific and career expertise needs; and (3) provide for rigorous reviews and selection of projects for pilot funding to develop data and publications to support successful acquisition of independent, extramural research funding in minority health and health disparities. The scope and needs among our faculty that START will address are well defined by PHSU prior experiences with pilot funding and junior investigator development (thus based on practical experience and targeted to our faculty). START goals are to develop our Scholars into funded (grants), productive researchers (publications, scientists trained) working in health disparities and to support their academic career development (promotion) and to do so while fostering the unique backgrounds and approaches among diverse scientists with career trajectories that are distinct from the traditional model common at elite research universities. This unique training, cultural competence and diverse community trust are all essential components to deriving creative and impactful research solutions to address persistent disparities in minority health and healthcare outcomes.