CD04-003 Abstracts
1 T01 DP000112-01 - Adolescent Health Protection Research Training
BEARINGER, LINDA H
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The second decade of life, adolescence, sets a trajectory likely to determine long-term health outcomes. Yet, the health needs of youth remain largely unmet. The purpose of the Adolescent Health Protection Research Training Program is to prepare scientists with the capacity to conduct public health research that advances evidence-based programs, practices, and policies for addressing health disparities and improving the health of all adolescents. Our training priority on vulnerable youth responds to pressing national needs reflected in Healthy People 2010: to eliminate health disparities among underserved segments of the population. The three collaborating Schools within the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center- Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health - have, for a quarter-century, conducted interdisciplinary leadership training programs as well as population-focused, community-partnered research focused on adolescent health. Adolescent health excellence within the collaborating Schools is reflected in the leadership of our faculty and our graduates in adolescent health research and their contributions to improving public health programs, practices, and policies. Our research focus on racially and economically diverse populations attracts comparable diversity among trainees. During the three-year award period, pre- and post-doctoral trainees in nursing (4 pre-, 2 post-), medicine (5 post-), and public health nutrition (4 pre-, 2 post-) will develop research and translational skills through a common public health-oriented core curriculum grounded in an ecological model that focuses on prevention and health promotion through population-focused interventions with youth. Common core curricular requirements as well as faculty mentorship for advanced research training draw upon resources across the collaborating Schools. Our instructional approach in adolescent health protection research corresponds to the Institute of Medicine's call for trans-disciplinary public health training for scholars in schools of medicine, nursing and other health professional schools.
1 T01 CD000146-01 - Research Training in Health Protection and Preparedness
GOUREVITCH, MARC N
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Profound and ongoing advances in biomedical science are not being translated effectively into improvements in the overall health of the American public. Though many programs train basic and clinical research scientists, training in research at the interface of medicine and public health is scarce. Addressing this deficiency is vital to the public health. The goal of the NYU School of Medicine proposal is to design, implement, evaluate an innovative new program to train post-doctoral, physician fellows in health protection and preparedness research and create sustainable research linkages between academic institutions and front-line public health agencies. After a rigorous and focused curriculum on core public health disciplines and research methods, fellows will work with one of a cadre of outstanding mentors investigating real-world challenges at the interface of medicine and public health. Organizational partners include the NY City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New Jersey Dept. of Health & Senior Services, the Yale School of Public Health, the NY City Health & Hospitals Corporation, and the NYU Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, allowing for a broad diversity in exposure to health protection and preparedness research as well as bidirectional transfer of experience and expertise. Areas of research opportunities in health promotion and disease prevention will include, for example, problems affecting vulnerable urban populations, such as preventing cancer, or managing asthma and preventing associated disability. Research opportunities in preparedness include, for example, mitigating the psychosocial sequelae of terrorism in urban and immigrant populations, evaluation of technologies and methods for detection and surveillance of emerging infections, and bio-monitoring in urban populations. The Division of GIM at NYU School of Medicine is committed to development of a self-sustaining Center for Public Health Research and Training contributing to a significant increase in the Nation's supply of physician public health researchers.
1 T01 CD000189-01 - The Illinois Public Health Research Fellowship Program
SOKAS, ROSEMARY K
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health proposes to develop the Illinois Public Health Research Fellowship Program to foster health protection research in preparedness and primary prevention across life stages. In keeping with the UIC Great Cities Program, it will emphasize the needs and challenges of urban, higher-risk populations. It will develop a cohort of public health researchers who are well-grounded in their respective disciplines, but who will have established solid research beginnings through a multidisciplinary mentorship program that targets real issues faced by partnering public health departments, including the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Chicago Department of Public Health. The emphasis for this program will be Research to Practice, developing skills to translate basic science research into applied public health practice and to conduct intervention effectiveness research. UIC will build on existing strengths in both community-responsive and community-collaborative research. The program will include leadership from each of the four UIC SPH Divisions, the SPH Dean, and the Director of the UIC Health Research and Policy Centers. Public health departments and the Environmental Justice Advisory Board for SPH will assist in the identification of research needs and will participate in conducting the research itself. Core and collaborating faculty from all divisions will develop and implement coordinated research curricula, interdisciplinary projects and research seminars, and will recruit 12 postdoctoral trainees and 4 doctoral students into four teams. Each team will integrate the major public health scientific disciplines to develop an inter-related set of research projects based in existing research and addressing community identified need. To support the doctoral students and post-doctoral trainees, a research core program will expand and coordinate SPH MS and MPH students as a response corps of research assistants for community-based research projects, with central coordination and faculty guidance.
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