Through a recently awarded K12 grant, the Department of Population Health Sciences will train Dissemination and Implementation (D&I) scholars to use rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods that will impact cardiovascular health outcomes. The program will be spearheaded by its Program Director, Hayden B. Bosworth, PhD, and Associate Director, Ebony Boulware, MD, PhD.
Scholars will train through a mentor/mentee relationship, leveraging the diverse expertise of 38 mentors trained in mixed/methods/evaluation, health services research and outcomes, pragmatic clinical trials, and health policy. The program will recruit five scholars who will work with at least two mentors and train for two to three years—gaining the knowledge, investigative skills, and a body of work to demonstrate competence as an independent investigator. At its conclusion, scholars are expected to land an NIH or other funding agency award.
“We see an increased need to more effectively and efficiently translate exciting findings into care, and to accomplish this, the Department of Population Health Sciences is honored to be training the next cohort of Dissemination and Implementation scientists,” said Dr. Bosworth. The K12 program will ensure an adequate supply of well-trained researchers to confront cardiovascular outcomes.
Candidates will be recruited from inside and outside the School of Medicine with a specific effort to attract minority scientists. Potential scholars will be identified during the last year of their clinical fellowship in internal medicine, endocrinology, cardiology, or geriatrics, or in the last year of postdoctoral fellowship for PhD applicants.