Health Disparities Research Scholars T32

摘要：健康差异研究学者培训计划（HDRS）的目标是提供跨学科研究的博士后培训，以解决少数民族人群健康状况和健康结果的差异，并招募未被充分代表的少数民族进入学术研究生涯。我们认为，整合生物医学科学、公共卫生科学、社会文化和行为科学是解决宏观社会层面的存在与疾病发病机制之间的联系的先决条件，这对解决健康差距非常重要。因此，HDRS培训计划为研究提供了跨学科和多方面的机会，不仅包括生物医学和行为科学，还包括对护理质量的调查，包括成本、服务的获取和满意度；减少健康差距的原因和障碍；对健康、语言、教育水平、社区概况和社会经济地位的态度；确定保健服务的结果、质量和适当性的评估措施。美国国立卫生研究院和美国国际医学研究院呼吁研究人员更加多样化，以此作为解决健康差距的一种手段。吸引来自不同学科的少数民族，如医生、护士、药剂师、社会学家、社会工作者和营养学家，进入学术研究事业将有助于这一努力。为了解决上述广泛的研究领域，以及可能的候选人的跨学科性质，该学院是跨学科的，由内科科学家、围产期研究人员、社会学家、护士科学家、营养科学家、流行病学家和经济学家组成。为了促进跨学科研究和学科交叉培训，我们将为每位学者提供两名导师，平衡生物医学/基础科学和行为/人口统计学和流行病学方法，以解决健康差异。这将增加学者和导师交叉培训的可能性。我们还将对HDRS学员进行基于社区的参与式研究技术培训。在美国国立卫生研究院临床和转化科学奖和华盛顿大学临床和转化研究所的资助下，我们有一个基础设施来支持这个项目。HDRS计划将影响和重新引导存在于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校校园的巨大智力，以解决健康差距。由于保留少数族裔在学术生涯中是必不可少的，我们致力于创造一个支持性的、学术上有益的、文化上丰富的和专业上令人满意的环境。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Abstract: The objective of the Health Disparities Research Scholars Training Program (HDRS) is to provide training at the postdoctoral level in interdisciplinary research that addresses disparities in health status and health outcomes among minority populations as well as to recruit underrepresented minorities into academic research careers. We believe that integrating biomedical sciences, public health sciences, and sociocultural and behavioral sciences are prerequisite to addressing the linkages of macro-societal levels of being with pathogenesis of disease so important in addressing health disparities. Thus, the HDRS Training Program provides interdisciplinary and multifaceted opportunities for research that includes not only biomedical and behavioral sciences, but also investigation into quality of care, including cost, access and satisfaction with services; the causes of and barriers to reducing health disparities; attitudes towards health, language spoken, educational level, community profile and socioeconomic status; identification of assessment measures for outcomes, quality and appropriateness of health care services. The NIH and IOM call for greater diversity in the research workforce as a means to address health disparities. Attracting minorities from various disciplines such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, sociologists, social workers, and nutritionists, into academic research careers will help in this endeavor. To address not only the broad array of research areas outlined above but also the interdisciplinary nature of the possible candidates, the faculty is interdisciplinary and consists f physician scientists, perinatal researchers, sociologists, nurse scientists, nutritional scientists epidemiologists and economists. To promote interdisciplinary research and disciplinary cross training, we will provide two mentors for each Scholar, balancing the biomedical/basic science and behavioral/demography and epidemiology approaches to address health disparities. This will increase the likelihood that both the Scholars and mentors will be crossed trained. We also will train HDRS trainees in the techniques of Community Based Participatory Research. With funding from the NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award and the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, we have an infrastructure in place to support the program. The HDRS Program will influence and redirect the enormous intellectual capacity that exists on the UW- Madison campus toward addressing health disparities. Since retention of minorities in academic careers is essential, we are committed to making the environment supportive, academically rewarding, culturally enriching and professionally satisfying.