Investigator Development Core

研究者开发核心

• 批准号: 10376062
• 负责人: Michael E Scheurer
• 金额: $ 23.8万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-16 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10376062
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Affect; African American; African American population; Applications Grants; Award; Basic Science; Biological Sciences; Child; Climate; Clinical; Communities; Coupled; Data; Death Rate; Development; Disadvantaged; Disasters; Discipline; Doctor' s Degree; Education; Environmental Health; Ethnic group; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Goals; Health Disparities Research; Health Professional; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Individual; Infant; Infant Mortality; Institution; Lead; Longevity; Maternal Mortality; Maternal and Child Health; Measures; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Mission; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities; Pathway interactions; Pilot Projects; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Pregnant Women; Principal Investigator; Probability; Program Development; Public Health; Quality of life; Race; Reduce health disparities; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Secure; Talents; Texas; Time; Training; Training Support; Translational Research; Trust; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Ursidae Family; Woman; base; career; career development; college; design; environmental health disparity; health disparity; health disparity populations; health related quality of life; high risk; improve minority health; interest; minority investigator; multidisciplinary; next generation; outreach; population health; premature; programs; racial and ethnic; racial disparity; recruit; resilience; skills; success; training opportunity

ABSTRACT Historically and for centuries, African-Americans have been among the most affected by health disparities, as reflected in their markedly higher death rates, infant mortality, and other measures of longevity and quality of life. One of the worst and persistent disparities in our nation affects African-American women and their children, who bear an overwhelming burden of maternal and infant mortality and other poor maternal and child health indicators of health-related quality of life. There is also ample evidence that minorities, and especially African-Americans, are poorly represented among individuals receiving doctoral degrees in the biological sciences (e.g., only about 3% are African-Americans even though they represent more than 12% of the national population). African- Americans are also disproportionately disadvantaged with respect to intramural and extramural NIH funding awarded nationwide. Of total funding by the NIH, only 1.4% were received by African-American PI’s, and the situation has not improved over time. A pathway to addressing this huge shortage in independently funded African-American researchers is through a program that addresses health disparities coupled with support of budding investigators from under-represented minorities. The Investigator Development Core (IDC) is one of the key mechanisms by which the Maternal and Infant Environmental Health Riskscape (MIEHR) Research Center will address this disparity to broaden the research base and enhance the Center’s impact. The IDC will support professional development of investigators from health disparity populations interested in environmental health disparities research. The Objective of the IDC is to stimulate, sponsor and support impactful research that addresses environmental health disparities and promotes collaborative research among investigators from multiple disciplines. The IDC will build on partnerships between Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and Texas Southern University (TSU), one of the nation’s largest historically black universities in the nation, to recruit, support and mentor post-doctoral and clinical fellows, as well as junior faculty, to pursue research in maternal and infant environmental health. By supporting high-risk, high-impact pilot projects that explore new avenues for research, respond to time-sensitive research opportunities, especially as they relate to disasters, and generate preliminary data to strengthen grant applications through other funding mechanisms, the IDC will promote career development in health disparity populations and foster collaborative research that integrates investigators with multiple skills and talents. Key evaluative metrics of the Core will be related to how the pilot projects ultimately help launch careers and address disparities in environmental health. Hence, the IDC is pivotal to enhance the environmental health identity and impact of the MIEHR Center research, and in addressing the gap in environmental health disparities researchers from health disparity populations.

抽象的 从历史上看，几个世纪以来，非裔美国人一直是受健康差距影响最严重的群体之一， 反映在他们明显较高的死亡率、婴儿死亡率以及其他长寿和生活质量指标上。 我们国家最严重和持续存在的不平等之一影响着非裔美国妇女及其子女，她们 承受着母婴死亡率和其他不良母婴健康指标的沉重负担 还有充足的证据表明，少数族裔，尤其是非裔美国人， 在获得生物科学博士学位的个人中代表性很低（例如，只有大约 3% 是非裔美国人，尽管他们占全国人口的 12% 以上）。 美国人在 NIH 的校内和校外资助方面也处于不成比例的劣势 在 NIH 授予的全国性资助总额中，只有 1.4% 是由非裔美国 PI 获得的。 随着时间的推移，这种情况并没有得到改善。 非裔美国研究人员正在通过一项解决健康差异的计划，并提供支持 来自代表性不足的少数群体的崭露头角的调查员是其中之一。 母婴环境健康风险景观 (MIEHR) 研究的关键机制 中心将解决这一差距，以扩大研究基础并增强中心的影响力。 支持来自对环境感兴趣的健康差异人群的调查人员的专业发展 IDC 的目标是促进、赞助和支持有影响力的研究。 解决环境健康差异并促进研究人员之间的合作研究 IDC 将建立在贝勒医学院 (BCM) 和德克萨斯州之间的合作伙伴关系的基础上。 南方大学 (TSU) 是美国历史上最大的黑人大学之一，旨在招募、 支持和指导博士后和临床研究员以及初级教师进行孕产妇研究 通过支持探索新途径的高风险、高影响的试点项目。 对于研究，应对时间敏感的研究机会，特别是与灾害有关的研究机会，以及 生成初步数据以加强通过其他资助机制的资助申请，IDC 将 促进健康差异人群的职业发展，并促进整合以下方面的合作研究 核心的关键评估指标将与试点的方式相关。 项目最终有助于开启职业生涯并解决环境健康方面的差异，因此，IDC 至关重要。 增强 MIEHR 中心研究的环境健康认同和影响，并解决 环境健康差异研究人员与健康差异人群的差距。