The Endowment for Community-based Health Disparities Research and Training

 描述（由申请人提供）： 纽约州立大学（奥尔巴尼）的奥尔巴尼大学将解决缺乏来自不同背景的科学家和研究人员研究健康差异的公共卫生挑战。UAlbany为5，161名少数民族本科生（占本科生入学人数的39.9%）提供服务，而少数民族研究生入学人数仅包括733名学生（占16.9%），反映了国家的困境。通过社区健康差异研究和培训基金会，UAlbany将增加调查健康差异和不平等的新研究人员的渠道，同时使其教师和研究生群体多样化。在其探索中心对少数民族健康和健康差距在小城市（NIMHD P20卓越中心）的工作的基础上，UAlbany将投资超过100万美元，并聘请多达48个不同的新教师，以补充NIMHD S21捐赠奖，以加强其在健康差距的研究和培训能力。UAlbany将首先通过创建跨学科博士水平的健康差异奖学金（HDF）计划来加强和多样化研究生博士培训。第二，大学将激励招聘，雇用和保留来自种族/少数民族人口的教师，包括招聘一位全国公认的学者担任UAlbany的第一个健康差异主席。第三，UAlbany学院和学校将开发新的课程，概念和方法，以建立专门关注健康差距的新学术课程。第四，UAlbany将重振和加强以社区为基础的伙伴关系，特别是在弱势群体，少数民族社区，这是CEMHD（NIMHD P20中心）研究范式的基石。通过建立一个专门用于健康差距研究的永久性机构捐赠基金，UAlbany将提供新的途径和机会，以建立更多样化的劳动力队伍，并为教学和研究创造更有利的学术环境，以应对健康差距的社会挑战。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University at Albany, State University of New York (UAlbany) will address the public health challenge of a lack of scientists and researchers from diverse backgrounds studying health disparities. UAlbany serves 5,161 minority undergraduate students (or 39.9% of undergraduate enrollment), while minority graduate enrollment only consists of 733 students (or 16.9%) reflecting the national dilemma. Through the Endowment for Community-Based Health Disparities Research and Training, UAlbany will increase the pipeline of new researchers investigating health disparities and inequalities, while concurrently diversifying its faculty and graduate student populations. Building on the work of its Exploratory Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities in Smaller Cities (a NIMHD P20 Center of Excellence), UAlbany will invest over $1 million and hire up to 48 diverse new faculty to complement the NIMHD S21 endowment award in order to bolster its research and training capacity in health disparities. UAlbany will first enhance and diversify graduate doctoral training through the creation of a transdisciplinary PhD-level Health Disparities Fellowship (HDFs) program. Second, the University will incentivize the recruitment, hiring and retention of faculty from racial/ethnic minority populations including the recruitment of a nationally recognized scholar to serve as UAlbany's first Health Disparities Chair. Third, UAlbany colleges and schools will develop new curricula, concepts and approaches to build new academic programs focused exclusively on health disparities. Fourth, UAlbany will reinvigorate and enhance community-based partnerships, particularly in disadvantaged, minority communities, which is the cornerstone of CEMHD's (NIMHD P20 Center) research paradigm. Through the creation of a permanent institutional endowment fund dedicated for health disparities research, UAlbany will provide novel pathways and opportunities to build a more diverse workforce and to create a more conducive scholarly environment for teaching and research to address the societal challenge of health disparities.