Strengthening mentorship for sexual and gender minority health researchers

高质量的指导会改善两者的结果，包括工作效率和职业满意度 生物医学科学领域的受训者和导师。事实证明，指导不足是最难以克服的 研究人员职业发展中的障碍，特别是来自代表性不足群体的指导者 在生物医学科学领域。例如，白人调查人员比种族调查人员更有可能 少数族裔同龄人赢得NIH R01奖，而指导不足是获得这笔资金的主要障碍。 尽管有关于优秀导师重要性的证据，但对 关注健康差距人群，特别是性和性别少数群体的研究人员。这一差距是 令人不安的是，专注于健康差距人群的研究人员往往被倍增地边缘化 关于他们自己的性别认同、性取向、种族/民族以及社会不平等的其他轴心。证据 表明即使是经验丰富的导师也能从现有课程中学习更有效的辅导策略 (例如，进入辅导)。然而，这些课程并没有完全满足研究人员的需求 关于健康差距的人群，他们也没有全面解决导师可以帮助繁衍的方式 边缘化的研究人员(例如，有色人种变性女性)克服了他们在 健康差距研究。导师和培训是R01家长奖的核心，该奖项的重点是 产科和围产期健康中与性取向有关的差异。在家长奖的第一年，我们的 团队将一些最好的指导实践和基于证据的课程调整为一个计划，以解决 被辅导者的需求侧重于健康差距人群和代表性不足的群体。在……下面 哈佛大学性与性别少数民族健康指导计划的头衔，这是首批教职员工 导师们在2022年春季试行了这项课程，进行了六个90分钟的专业发展 会话。课程围绕七项核心能力构建(例如，调整导师-学员期望， 保持有效沟通，解决公平和包容问题)。虽然我们收集了丰富的评价 在这个试点中，我们没有资源来评估这些数据，也没有资源来传播课程。 但是，在这份行政副刊的支持下，我们可以满足我们的项目客观评价， 完善和传播课程，此外，我们将开发两个平行的导师培训课程，用于 其他选区-博士后研究员和学生。与教职员工一样，这些群体对变革至关重要 当前的导师文化从临时的到有意的、包容的和有效的。 该项目将产生第一个侧重于性和性别少数群体健康的导师培训计划 将支持下一代健康差距研究人员，从而改善少数群体的健康。这样的导师 培训和随后保留代表性不足的学者也将产生更广泛的影响， 在更广泛的生物医药企业中创造更具包容性的环境。

Quality mentorship leads to improved outcomes, including productivity and career satisfaction, for both mentees and mentors in the biomedical sciences. Inadequate mentorship has proven to be the most insurmountable obstacle in a researcher's career development, particularly for mentees from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. For example, white investigators are more likely than racial/ethnic minority peers to win NIH R01 awards and inadequate mentoring is the primary obstacle to obtaining that funding. Despite the evidence around the importance of excellent mentorship, little is known about mentorship for researchers who focus on health disparity populations, particularly sexual and gender minorities. This gap is troubling because researchers who focus on health disparity populations are often multiply marginalized based on their own gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and other axes of social inequality. Evidence shows that even experienced mentors learn strategies for more effective mentoring from existing curricula (e.g., Entering Mentoring). However, these curricula do not fully address the needs of researchers who focus on health disparity populations, nor do they comprehensively address ways that mentorship can help multiply marginalized researchers (e.g., transgender women of color) overcome the systemic disadvantage they face in health disparities research. Mentorship and training are central to the R01 parent award, which is focused on sexual orientation-related disparities in obstetrical and perinatal health. In the first year of the parent award, our team adapted some of the best mentoring practices and evidence-based curricula into a program that addresses the needs of mentees focused on health disparity populations and from underrepresented groups. Under the title of the Harvard Sexual and Gender Minority Health Mentoring Program, the inaugural cohort of faculty mentors piloted this curriculum in spring 2022 through a series of six 90-minute professional development sessions. The curriculum is structured around seven core competencies (e.g., aligning mentor-mentee expectations, maintaining effective communication, addressing equity and inclusion). While we collected rich evaluation data in this pilot, we do not have the resources to evaluate that data, nor to disseminate the curriculum. However, with the support of this administrative supplement, we can meet our proiect obiective to evaluate, refine, and disseminate the curriculum, Additionally, we will develop two, parallel mentor training curricula for other constituencies-postdoctoral fellows and students. Along with faculty, these groups are critical to changing the current mentorship culture from one that is ad hoc to one that is intentional, inclusive, and effective. This project will produce the first mentor training program focused on sexual and gender minority health which will bolster the next generation of health disparities researchers, thereby improving minority health. Such mentor trainings and the subsequent retention of underrepresented scholars will also have a broader impact by creating more inclusive environments throughout the wider biomedical enterprise.