Building the capacity of early-stage investigators to conduct community-engaged health disparities research

IF 1.5 4区社会学 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Evaluation and Program Planning Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2025.102585

Cyleste C. Collins , Mona Shediac Rizkallah , Jacqueline Dolata , Elodie Nonguierma , Erika Hood , J. Daryl Thornton , Ashwini Sehgal

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Abstract

This paper describes an NIH funded Pilot Awards Program in Cleveland, Ohio, focused on developing the capacity of new and early-stage academic investigators to conduct community-engaged research. After a competitive application process, the program selected 18 early-stage investigators (post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty) who had partnered with at least one community organization to conduct pilot health disparities research projects, awarding up to $50,000 per project for one year. The program’s development, project selection, and findings from survey and focus group data collected from the first two cohorts of awardees are discussed. Lessons learned and the implications of the importance of investing in a supportive infrastructure to enhance early-stage investigators’ involvement in community-engaged research to ultimately affect health disparities are also discussed.

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建立早期调查人员开展社区参与的健康差异研究的能力

本文描述了美国国立卫生研究院在俄亥俄州克利夫兰资助的试点奖励计划，重点是发展新的和早期学术研究者进行社区参与研究的能力。经过竞争激烈的申请程序，该项目选择了18名早期研究人员（博士后研究员和初级教师），他们至少与一个社区组织合作开展了试点健康差异研究项目，每个项目最高可获得5万美元的奖励，为期一年。讨论了该计划的发展、项目选择以及从前两批获奖者中收集的调查结果和焦点小组数据。还讨论了经验教训以及投资于支持性基础设施以加强早期调查人员参与社区参与的研究以最终影响健康差距的重要性的影响。

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Evaluation and Program Planning SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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