# Investigator Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $276,118

## Abstract

Abstract: Investigator Development Core 
The overall goal and theme of the Duke Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity) 
is to reduce racial disparities in health through interventions that affect the clinical encounter. To achieve this 
goal, the Investigator Development Core will provide pilot grants for early-stage investigators, including junior 
faculty, post-doctoral fellows and other early stage investigators. Using a peer review process, in each grant 
year, we will fund three scholars for one year, with institutional funds providing a second year of funding. We 
will prioritize selection of projects that address the Center's theme: to develop and test interventions that 
reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health by ultimately improving the quality of patient-centered care in the 
clinical encounter through better provider communication, high quality interpersonal processes of care, and 
shared decision making. Consistent with our Center's goal of increasing diversity in the disparities research 
work-force, at least 50% of funded projects will be led by under-represented minority investigators. Awardees 
will engage in the Center's career development opportunities (see Administrative Core, Research Education 
and Training subcore), including a core curriculum, works-in-progress seminar series, and annual disparities 
research colloquium. Early-stage investigators will be invited under the Center's “umbrella” of collaboration and 
fellowship. In this way, we will develop the disparities investigators of the future. The specific aims of the 
Investigator Development Core are to (1) Fund 3/year early-stage investigators as “Disparities Research 
Scholars” to conduct pilot research on health disparities, with a goal of at least 50% of awardees from under- 
represented groups; and (2) With institutional support, supplement the pilot funding to provide awardees with a 
mentored career development award.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159129
- **Project number:** 5U54MD012530-05
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Laura P Svetkey
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $276,118
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-25 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159129

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159129, Investigator Development Core (5U54MD012530-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159129. Licensed CC0.

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