Training and Community Cores
Training
The Training Core seeks to improve diversity among health research trainees and build maternal health research capacity via innovative educational programming at multiple levels. The Training Core will develop a robust program of research training, mentoring, and career development to build a cadre of early-career researchers from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce to support innovative solutions to address maternal morbidity and mortality. Each trainee will be matched to a primary mentor, a community mentor, and a senior member of the executive team. Mentors and trainees will develop a full career development plan with benchmarks oriented towards the trainee’s transition towards an independent research career, including developing research skills, community engagement, and classroom education.
Community
The CP Core will incorporate community partners embedded within the priority population as invaluable partners with the research and healthcare cores of the Center. To elevate and incorporate Black voices throughout the Center, the CP Core will establish equitable partnerships between representatives from Black-led community-based organizations (CBOs), researchers, and healthcare providers. These equitable partnership agreements will counteract the paternalistic framework of traditional research centers that have historically excluded those who represent the targeted community. Furthermore, by working with CBOs primarily led by and serving Black women, we will have greater access to the target population, and help build these organizations’ capacity via technical assistance (e.g., trainings on grant writing, data collection, and management).
This grant U54HD113159 is supported by the Improve Initiative. This content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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scmhe@tulane.edu
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