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Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience
Health inequities in the United States are well-documented. However, research that is focused on solutions, rather than just describing the problem, and research that is designed explicitly to inform needed policy and practice change, is still too rare. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdiscip...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35646764 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.876847 |
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author | Gollust, Sarah E. Call, Kathleen T. Moon, J. Robin Cluxton, Bonnie Bailey, Zinzi |
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description | Health inequities in the United States are well-documented. However, research that is focused on solutions, rather than just describing the problem, and research that is designed explicitly to inform needed policy and practice change, is still too rare. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program launched in 2016 with the goal of filling this gap: to generate community-engaged research to catalyze policy action in communities, while promoting leadership among researchers and community partners. In this paper, we describe the creation and implementation of a curriculum for IRL program participants over the first 5 years of the program. The curriculum—spanning domains of leadership, policy, communication, community engagement, and research methodologies—was designed to cultivate leaders who use research evidence in their efforts to promote change to advance health equity in their communities. The curriculum components implemented by IRL might be applied to other educational programs or fellowships to amplify and accelerate the growth of leaders nationwide who can use research and action to respond to grave and ongoing threats to community health. |
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spelling | pubmed-91361002022-05-28 Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience Gollust, Sarah E. Call, Kathleen T. Moon, J. Robin Cluxton, Bonnie Bailey, Zinzi Front Public Health Public Health Health inequities in the United States are well-documented. However, research that is focused on solutions, rather than just describing the problem, and research that is designed explicitly to inform needed policy and practice change, is still too rare. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leaders (IRL) program launched in 2016 with the goal of filling this gap: to generate community-engaged research to catalyze policy action in communities, while promoting leadership among researchers and community partners. In this paper, we describe the creation and implementation of a curriculum for IRL program participants over the first 5 years of the program. The curriculum—spanning domains of leadership, policy, communication, community engagement, and research methodologies—was designed to cultivate leaders who use research evidence in their efforts to promote change to advance health equity in their communities. The curriculum components implemented by IRL might be applied to other educational programs or fellowships to amplify and accelerate the growth of leaders nationwide who can use research and action to respond to grave and ongoing threats to community health. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9136100/ /pubmed/35646764 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.876847 Text en Copyright © 2022 Gollust, Call, Moon, Cluxton and Bailey. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Gollust, Sarah E. Call, Kathleen T. Moon, J. Robin Cluxton, Bonnie Bailey, Zinzi Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title | Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title_full | Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title_fullStr | Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title_short | Designing and Implementing a Curriculum to Support Health Equity Research Leaders: The Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Experience |
title_sort | designing and implementing a curriculum to support health equity research leaders: the interdisciplinary research leaders experience |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9136100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35646764 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.876847 |
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