Investigator Development Core

研究者开发核心

• 批准号: 10218039
• 负责人: Kristina Walker Whitworth
• 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/10218039
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; Affect; African American; 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 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; Pathway interactions; Pilot Projects; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Pregnant Women; Principal Investigator; Probability; Program Development; Public Health; Quality of life; Race; 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; improved; interest; minority health; 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 历史上和几个世纪以来，非裔美国人一直是健康差异最大的人之一，因为 反映出他们的死亡率，婴儿死亡率以及其他寿命和生活质量的措施明显更高。 我们国家最糟糕和持续的差距之一会影响非裔美国妇女及其子女 带有遗物和婴儿死亡率以及其他贫穷的物物和儿童健康指标的压倒性燃烧 与健康相关的生活质量。也有足够的证据表明少数民族，尤其是非裔美国人， 在生物科学中获得博士学位的个体中的代表不佳（例如 即使非裔美国人占全国人口的12％以上）。非洲 在壁内和壁外NIH资金方面，美国人也处于不利地位 在全国范围内授予。在NIH的总资金中，非裔美国人的PI只收到了1.4％， 随着时间的流逝，情况没有改善。解决这一巨大资金短缺的途径 非裔美国人的研究人员通过一个计划，该计划解决了健康差异，并支持 来自代表性不足的少数民族的萌芽调查员。研究者开发核心（IDC）是 孕产妇和婴儿环境健康风险景观（MIEHR）研究的关键机制 中心将解决这一差异，以扩大研究基础并增强中心的影响。 IDC会 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 健康差异研究。 IDC的目的是刺激，赞助和支持有影响力的研究 解决环境健康分布并促进来自的研究人员的合作研究 多个学科。 IDC将建立在贝勒医学院（BCM）与德克萨斯州之间的合作伙伴关系的基础上 南部大学（TSU）是美国历史上最大的黑人大学之一，招募 支持和心理博士后和临床研究员以及初级教职员工从事孕产妇的研究 和婴儿环境健康。通过支持探索新途径的高风险，高影响力的飞行员项目 对于研究，响应时间敏感的研究机会，尤其是与灾难有关的问题， 生成初步数据以通过其他资金机制加强赠款申请，IDC将 促进健康差异人群中的职业发展，并促进整合的合作研究 具有多种技能和才华的调查员。关键评估核心的指标将与飞行员有关 项目最终有助于启动职业并解决环境健康方面的分布。因此，IDC是关键 为了增强MIEHR中心研究的环境健康身份和影响，并在解决 健康差异人群中的环境健康差异的差距。