# TRANSPORT - the TRANSlational Program Of health disparities Research Training

> **NIH NIH S21** · SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER · 2021 · $2,000,000

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
This endowment award will establish a new and sustainable Translational Program of Health Disparities
Research Training (TRANSPORT). TRANSPORT will provide a foundation for growing and developing a
diverse biomedical research workforce that will position Downstate as a national leader in translational
disparities and population health research. Our efforts will focus on recruiting and training underrepresented
minority (URM) junior faculty, postdoctoral candidates and undergraduate students who come from Brooklyn
and other communities that are vulnerable to health disparities. We propose the following five objectives in
TRANSPORT:
 1. Establish a new Translational Program Of Health Disparities Research Training (TRANSPORT) that will
 support a range of research training initiatives from undergraduate pipeline programs, faculty
 development, and recruitment under BHDC.
 2. Enroll 3 junior faculty candidates per year of endowment income, into a 2-year development program of
 TRANSPORT, leveraging the experience and success of PRIDE.
 3. Enroll URM post-doctoral fellows who are identified as exceptional candidates and who are most likely
 to benefit from academic experience when matched with the most successful faculty investigators at
 Downstate. The endowment will support 2 fellows directly, full time for two years each, but other
 mechanisms will be used to support up to 6 fellows annually.
 4. Expand partnerships with local colleges such as Medgar Evers College, where over 90% of students
 are URMs, to recruit 5 students in year 1, increasing by an additional 5 students each year, reaching 25
 students/year in year 5 forward. These students will be enrolled into the Summer Program in
 Translational and Community Engaged Research (SPRINTER). SPRINTER will provide research
 opportunities in all 5 Colleges/Schools for undergraduate students and will greatly enhance pipelines
 into our schools, and ultimately into health disparities research.
 5. Establish the Presidents Multi-disciplinary Investigator Seminar (PREMIS) series and an annual
 TRANSPORT interdisciplinary health disparities research symposium. These initiatives will greatly
 increase health disparities awareness and expand the range of research options offered by each of the
 colleges/Schools. This will enhance the academic environment and lead to opportunities for
 transdisciplinary collaborations in health disparities research.
IMPACT: TRANSPORT will provide a rigorous research training infrastructure that will produce a critical mass
of trained health disparities investigators and career advancement opportunities, which will ultimately
contribute to the elimination of health disparities in Brooklyn and beyond.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10167779
- **Project number:** 5S21MD012474-05
- **Recipient organization:** SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Carla Boutin-Foster
- **Activity code:** S21 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $2,000,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-14 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10167779

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10167779, TRANSPORT - the TRANSlational Program Of health disparities Research Training (5S21MD012474-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10167779. Licensed CC0.

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