TY - JOUR
T1 - Commentary
T2 - Training and mentoring the next generation of health equity researchers: Insights from the field
AU - Cooper, Lisa A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Training scholars is an impor tant part of the Center’s mission. We provide research training focused on developing interventions and engaging with community stakeholders to advance health equity. We also train clinicians to address social determinants of health as experienced by their patients. After doing general and targeted needs assessments, we learned from our prospective and current trainees that they wanted practical tips about what it was like to do health equity research in the field. So, we created a curriculum called “Lessons Learned.”16Trainees also needed financial support, for protected time to do the work, and to hire staff to help them collect and analyze data. The grant provided financial support for faculty fellows and pilot study funds for pre-and post-doctoral fellows. After we launched our training program, we learned that many high school, undergraduate and graduate students from disciplines outside of medicine, nursing, and public health and from neighboring institutions and across the country wanted summer internships and electives. To respond to this need, we created internships and electives. We published some of our early lessons learned in an article in Academic Medicine.16 Some topics covered in our lessons learned include: how to select and train staff; how to tailor materials to a specific culture; how to do literacy adaptation of recruitment and data collection material; and how to generate community and organizational support during the research process.
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - During August 30-31, 2017, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) hosted a two-day workshop with thought leaders and experts in the fields of implementation science, prevention science, health inequities research, and training and research workforce development. The workshop addressed critical challenges and compelling questions from the NHLBI Strategic Vision, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services' Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Participants discussed: best practices for designing and executing implementation research training programs; approaches to increase participation in implementation research to address health inequities; innovative training methods and models, including team science approaches; and best practices for developing and sustaining a cadre of mentors for individuals who conduct implementation research. As part of this workshop, the Saunders-Watkins Memorial Lecture, named posthumously for Dr. Elijah Saunders, a Baltimore cardiologist, and Dr. Levi Watkins, a Baltimore cardiothoracic surgeon, was established. Both men dedicated their lives to patient care, teaching, research, and community service. The lecture honors them for their pioneering efforts to advance health equity for medically underserved communities in the United States and around the globe, at a time when it was neither popular nor safe to do so. The lecture is also designed to stimulate a future generation of researchers committed to advancing health equity research and the elimination of health iniquities. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and inaugural recipient of the American Heart Association's Watkins-Saunders Award, which recognizes excellence in clinical, medical, and community work focused on diminishing health care disparities in Maryland. This article captures the essence of that lecture.
AB - During August 30-31, 2017, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science (CTRIS) hosted a two-day workshop with thought leaders and experts in the fields of implementation science, prevention science, health inequities research, and training and research workforce development. The workshop addressed critical challenges and compelling questions from the NHLBI Strategic Vision, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services' Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Participants discussed: best practices for designing and executing implementation research training programs; approaches to increase participation in implementation research to address health inequities; innovative training methods and models, including team science approaches; and best practices for developing and sustaining a cadre of mentors for individuals who conduct implementation research. As part of this workshop, the Saunders-Watkins Memorial Lecture, named posthumously for Dr. Elijah Saunders, a Baltimore cardiologist, and Dr. Levi Watkins, a Baltimore cardiothoracic surgeon, was established. Both men dedicated their lives to patient care, teaching, research, and community service. The lecture honors them for their pioneering efforts to advance health equity for medically underserved communities in the United States and around the globe, at a time when it was neither popular nor safe to do so. The lecture is also designed to stimulate a future generation of researchers committed to advancing health equity research and the elimination of health iniquities. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and inaugural recipient of the American Heart Association's Watkins-Saunders Award, which recognizes excellence in clinical, medical, and community work focused on diminishing health care disparities in Maryland. This article captures the essence of that lecture.
KW - Community-Based Participatory Research
KW - Education
KW - Health Care Disparities
KW - Health Status Disparities
KW - Mentoring
KW - Translational Medical Research
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U2 - 10.18865/ed.28.4.579
DO - 10.18865/ed.28.4.579
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30405304
AN - SCOPUS:85055523208
VL - 28
SP - 579
EP - 585
JO - Ethnicity and Disease
JF - Ethnicity and Disease
SN - 1049-510X
IS - 4
ER -