The Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) through the National Institutes of Health to
- Increase the number of early career faculty members (with an emphasis on faculty from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) who are better prepared to become NIH principal investigators in the field of community-based health equity research; and
- Increase the quantity and quality of health equity research targeting vulnerable ethnic minority populations developed by CHER Institute Training Program participants.
The CHER Institute is supported through the NIH Research Education Program (R25) which supports research educational activities that complement other formal training programs in the mission areas of the NIH Institutes and Centers. The over-arching goals of the NIH R25 program are to:
- Complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs;
- Enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce;
- Help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; and
- Foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.
Specifically, the CHER Institute offers the following:
- Educational experiences for 15 early career faculty members once annually during a six-day, intensive research training experience focused on theory-based, culturally-informed methods for effective community engagement in health equity research with the purpose of developing Specific Aims page for a NIH research proposal.
- Single topic webinars 4-6 times annually for up to 100 early career faculty on theory-based, culturally-informed methods for effective community engagement in health equity research.
Details about the institute and application process can be found HERE.
Online application are now available!