Interdisciplinary Training in Health Disparities Research

描述（由申请人提供）：健康和医疗保健方面的差异，特别是在服务不足的人群中，仍然是一个全国性的问题。这种竞争性的继续申请要求支持，以扩大研究培训护士科学家在健康差距的研究。我们目前的机构研究服务奖的总体目标是准备护士科学家识别，预防和减少服务不足人群的健康差距。虽然我们仍然致力于这一目标，我们将建立在当前的培训计划的成功，通过提高培训方法的跨学科性质，这是越来越有必要准备护士科学家谁研究在医疗保健差距的复杂原因，并作为领导者和未来的研究团队的成员。该计划将培养下一代护士研究人员进行健康差异研究，他们是强大的科学家，以护理为基础，但能够使用整合其他学科观点的理论和方法，这将进一步提高我们解决健康差异复杂性的能力。我们的目标是为学员提供核心知识，技能，态度和经验，进行健康差距研究，培养创造性和成功的临床研究人员谁可以领导和参与跨学科团队内的研究项目，并增加和加强代表性不足的少数民族参与健康差距研究的准备。为这个跨学科培训计划设计的培训将通过计划组成部分的组合来完成，包括必修和选修课程，指导跨学科研究居住，跨学科导师委员会，领导力和健康差异研讨会以及其他互动小组。我们建议在五年内支持总共8名博士前和2名博士后学员。约翰霍普金斯大学护理学院在战略上和物理上都处于有利地位，在一个丰富的环境中，促进了强大的跨学科合作，使我们能够进一步加强健康差异的跨学科研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Disparities in health and health care, especially among underserved populations, continue as a national concern. This competing continuation application requests support to extend research training for nurse scientists in health disparities research. The overarching goal of our current Institutional Research Service Award is to prepare nurse scientists to identify, prevent, and reduce health disparities in underserved populations. Whereas we remain committed to this goal, we will build on the success of the current training program by enhancing the interdisciplinary nature of the training approach which is becoming increasingly necessary to prepare nurse scientists who study the complex causes of disparities in health care and to function as leaders and members of the research teams of the future. This program will train the next generation of nurse researchers to conduct health disparities researches, who are strong scientists, anchored in nursing but able to use theories and methods that integrate other disciplinary perspectives which will further advance our ability to address the complex nature of health disparities. We aim to provide trainees with the core knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experience to conduct health disparities research, to develop creative and successful clinical investigators who can lead and participate in research projects within interdisciplinary teams, and to increase the number of and strengthen the preparation of under-represented minorities participating in health disparities research. The training designed for this interdisciplinary training program will be accomplished through a combination of program components, including required and elective coursework, a mentored interdisciplinary research residency, interdisciplinary mentorship committee, leadership and health disparities seminars, and other interactive groups. We propose to support a total of 8 pre-doctoral and 2 postdoctoral trainees over five years. The School of Nursing at Johns Hopkins University is well positioned strategically and physically within a rich environment that fosters strong interdisciplinary collaborations that uniquely enable us to further enhance the interdisciplinary study of health disparities.