@article{ce3cfaa4e54d4121b16778b3ba4d8207,
title = "ImplementatIon of the StepS toward academIc reSearch (Star) fellowShIp program to promote UnderrepreSented mInorIty facUlty into health dISparIty reSearch",
abstract = "Eliminating disparities in health can benefit from the inclusion of diverse populations pursuing health disparity research careers. A goal of the Texas Center for Health Disparities (TCHD) is to provide opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty to become successful health disparity researchers. The TCHD created the Steps Toward Academic Research (STAR) fellowship program to provide faculty and community partners a yearlong face-to-face and online hybrid curriculum focused on acquiring fundamental concepts in biomedical and behavioral health disparity research, basics in grantsmanship as well as professional development skills. In total, this training approach is envisioned to provide mutually beneficial co-learning experiences that will increase the number of under-represented minorities (URMs) entering translational research focused on the elimination of health disparities.",
keywords = "Faculty, Grant writing, Health disparities, Minority, Professional development",
author = "K. Jamboor and Vishwanatha and Jones, {Harlan P.}",
note = "Funding Information: The ability to receive promotion and tenure among academic faculty is a critical measure of career suc cess, particularly at research inten sive institutions and increasingly among MSIs with graduate research training programs. Annual requests of grant support beyond one year after program completion was re quested of STAR fellows. We also performed NIH RePorter (https:// projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter. cfm) database searches when appli cable. We report $6,811,559 (2008- 2017) in extramural and intramural research awards to STAR Fellows. The average amount of grant fund ing per fellow was approximately $90,820. This includes funding reported by community fellows. Funding Information: The STAR Fellowship recognizes the value of tailoring proficiencies in grant writing depending on a fellow{\textquoteright}s career stage and prior experiences critical to success in research and particularly for those with interest in health disparity research careers. In this regard, we intentionally de signed a curriculum that would pro vide fellows the necessary framework focused on concepts related to health disparities and social determinants of health. Academic fellows were able to gain knowledge based on the understanding that conducting health disparity research requires skills to identify and implement the various domains of health disparity models (eg, individual, social behavioral, community, policy) into their community-based research programs. By integrating faculty and community stakeholders into the fellowship, we provide a co-learning experience so that faculty become exposed to CBPR. Likewise, community fellows appreciated learning form their faculty peers on how to conduct research. Importantly, these experiences are supported by grant writing activities, professional and career development workshops and mentored-guided grant development. Funding Information: The authors would like to thank those individuals contributing to the generation of this work including: Bruce Dubin, DO, JD FCLM, FACOI, executive vice president for academic affairs, provost and dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience, College of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Jose Pagan, director of the Center for Health Innovation at The New York Academy of Medicine; Andrea Gouldy, Terry Voss and Rajendra Sharma, PhD. This research was funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers P20MD001633 and P20MD006882 (JKV). Human subject data collection and the writing of the manuscript was supported by the grant P20MD006882 and U54MD006882 (JKV). Funding Information: Although the TCHD has been in existence since 2004, data collected from the STAR fellowship program spanned nine cohorts consisting of 10 fellows each between 2008-2016. Applicant data of non-STAR Fellow ship participants was not included as part of program evaluation because of limited access in tracking applicant information relevant to participant outcomes in this report. Each participant was followed for five years after completing the fellowship to track fellows{\textquoteright} success and career progression. Data were collected via online surveys at enrollment, at the completion of fellowship year, and each year after program completion for five years. Analysis of individual participant characteristics included race/ ethnicity and sex. Information describing participants{\textquoteright} home academic institution, primary appointment, research discipline and/or employment was also collected from cohorts. An online survey was distributed to the STAR fellows; the survey assessed fellows{\textquoteright} self-reported feelings regarding the training they received and process of the STAR Fellowship. We also collected information about career outcomes including self-reported grants submitted and/or funded, publications authored by fellows prior to and up to five years beyond training. Data collected were also confirmed from online available curriculum vitae and PubMed (publications). All levels of authorship including first, middle and corresponding authorship were tabulated. Grant funding was collected by performing a search on NIH RePorter (grant awards). Grant funding was defined as those awarded as principal investigator including all NIH grant mechanisms (eg, R series, K series, Diversity Supplements, mentor-guided research awards). The primary indicators of STAR fellow{\textquoteright}s success were number of publications, number of awards (reported in aggregate across two 5-year grant cycles), retention in academic institutions, promotion and tenure and scholarly achievements (eg, honors, awards, memberships). Additional indicators of success included feedback from fellows provided through correspondence. Appropriate statistical analysis was implemented for comparisons in determining outcome effects and denoted in figure legends.",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.18865/ed.28.1.3",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "3--10",
journal = "Ethnicity and Disease",
issn = "1049-510X",
publisher = "ISHIB",
number = "1",
}