Open AccessTheory-Informed Research Training and Mentoring of Underrepresented Early-Career Faculty at Teaching-Intensive Institutions: The Obesity Health Disparities PRIDE Program
Author(s) -
Bettina M. Beech,
Marino A. Bruce,
Roland J. Thorpe,
Elizabeth Heitman,
Derek M. Griffith,
Keith C. Norris
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ethnicity and disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1945-0826
pISSN - 1049-510X
DOI - 10.18865/ed.28.2.115
Subject(s) - pride , medical education , underrepresented minority , obesity , medicine , health equity , training (meteorology) , faculty development , psychology , nursing , public health , professional development , political science , law , physics , meteorology
Mentoring has been consistently identified as an important element for career advancement in many biomedical and health professional disciplines and has been found to be critical for success and promotion in academic settings. Early-career faculty from groups underrepresented in biomedical research, however, are less likely to have mentors, and in general, receive less mentoring than their majority-group peers, particularly among those employed in teaching-intensive institutions. This article describes Obesity Health Disparities (OHD) PRIDE, a theoretically and conceptually based research training and mentoring program designed for early-career faculty who trained or are employed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).Ethn Dis. 2018;28(2):115-122; doi:10.18865/ed.28.2.115.