CD07-001 Abstracts
2 T01 DP000112-04 - 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 intent of the Adolescent Health Protection Research Training Program (AHPRT) 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 first three years of AHPRT trainees in nursing (seven pre-, two post-), medicine (two post-), and public health nutrition (three pre-, four post-) have developed 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. Years 4 and 5 allow for continued support of current pre- and post-doctoral trainees while adding additional trainees to AHPRT. 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 transdisciplinary public health training for scholars in schools of medicine, nursing and other health professional schools.
2 T01 CD000146-04 - 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 New York University School of Medicine proposal is to solidify and evaluate the effectiveness of 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 in core public health disciplines and research methods, fellows 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 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, and the New York University 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. The initial cohort of six fellows (from three disciplines), now mid-way through this two year Master's in Science degree granting program, is engaged in diverse research initiatives on topics from colorectal cancer screening among immigrants to health literacy interventions to improve care of pediatric patients in emergency departments to exploring the power of natural language processing for medical record-based detection of medical errors, with implications for syndromic surveillance. The Division of General Internal Medicine at New York University School of Medicine is committed to developing a Center for Population Health Research and Training that can meaningfully contribute to building the Nation's supply of physician public health researchers.
2 T01 CD000189-04 - 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 continue to build the Illinois Public Health Research (IPHR) Fellowship Program to foster health protection research in preparedness and primary prevention across life stages. The program has successfully recruited an initial cohort of 4 pre-doctoral students and 12 post-doctoral fellows, all of whom are committed to developing research careers that will address the needs and challenges of urban, higher-risk populations. The current application would extend funding for two additional years, which would permit ongoing replacement recruiting that would maintain the cohort of 16 trainees at full strength. By continuing the current approach to carry-over funding requests, the proposed competitive renewal would permit the IPHR Fellowship to double the number of scientists trained. Evaluation of the program has resulted in a number of modifications of the training experience, including reconfiguring the trans-disciplinary teams into a learner-driven biweekly experience with continued emphasis on intervention effectiveness, community-based participatory research and translational research, but with more formal discussion of the interaction between qualitative and quantitative research methods in public health. Fellows participated in the Emergency Response Team that helped to meet the public health needs of Katrina evacuees and to evaluate that response. The fellows have published successfully during their first year, are developing solid multidisciplinary mentored research projects that have been directly influenced by advisory partnering public health departments, and most are currently in the process of developing grant applications. Mechanisms have been developed to enhance faculty effectiveness and to provide seed funding to promote multidisciplinary mentored projects to translate basic science research into applied public health practice with a focus on both community-responsive and community-collaborative research. Program leadership includes the public health departments and the Environmental Justice Advisory Board. Fellows help establish the research curricula and engage the student research support corps to obtain preliminary research data and gain team leadership experience. The IPHR Fellowship Program is a cost-effective mechanism for training a large number of public health research scientists capable of conducting the trans-disciplinary research needed to impact the major public health problems facing the U.S. and the world.
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