Advanced Research Training in SDOH (ART)

PROJECT SUMMARY Interdisciplinary researchers at Emory University propose to plan and execute a program on Advanced Research Training in SDOH (ART). The primary goals are to increase the number of nurse scientists, and scientists in aligned fields prepared to conduct research on the powerful ways that SDOH influences the health

of individuals, families, and communities and to increase the numbers of investigators that are poised to conduct research in alignment with NINR’s strategic plan. The program builds on an outstanding research infrastructure focused on SDOH and will be a logical and powerful extension of a four-year initiative launched

in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing to thoroughly integrate SDOH knowledge throughout our curriculum. The ART program in SDOH will provide early-career faculty a mentored, educational program to foster their transition to independent investigators with advanced skills in research methods relevant to SDOH.

ART will also provide mid-career faculty a training opportunity to integrate SDOH into their established programs of research and to emerge as scientific leaders in SDOH. Trainees will be chosen who have interest and alignment with our research strengths in SDOH including cancer, cardiovascular disease, aging and

cognition, climate change and behavioral health. In addition, our Center for Data Science and our Office for Nursing Research provides a rich milieu to expose trainees to new methodologies being developed to capture the impact of SDOH. The ART program consists of developing and implementing a Short Course in Research

Methods Related to SDOH content that will incorporate fundamentals of conceptual models; review of current evidence related to SDOH topics and the impacts of this evidence on health disparities and health inequities; relevant research methods critical to knowledge gaps in SDOH; and guidance on the development and

maintenance of successful transdisciplinary research collaborations. Trainees will be provided hands-on research training by NIH-funded faculty at Emory University Schools of Nursing and Public Health on SDOH related research topics. The program is envisioned to establish the basis of a long-term mentorship program

with our faculty in which trainees will be supported in continued development in obtaining NIH R-level research funding relevant to SDOH. Moreover, the nurse scientists and those in related fields will be trained to be ethically and critically engaged in SDOH research. They will emerge as trailblazers in SDOH research,

champions of multi-dimensional preventive strategies, and experts in advanced research methodologies, setting new paradigms in nursing and related sciences.