# CDU-CRECD Mentored Postdoctoral Training in the Science of Minority Health and Health Disparities Program

> **NIH NIH R25** · CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED & SCI · 2023 · $530,879

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
 The overarching goal of the CDU-CRECD Mentored Postdoctoral Training in the Science of Minority Health
and Health Disparities Program at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) is to provide
minority junior faculty with training and mentoring in health disparities and community-based participatory
research, empowering them to achieve the highest levels of scholarship on their respective pathways to
successful, independent careers as clinical research scientists. The ultimate goal is to improve the health of
racial/ethnic minority groups and reduce disparities. Achievement of this goal will be measured by the number
of trainees who successfully pursue long-term careers in clinical-translational, racial and ethnic disparities
research, including community-engaged research, and by the quality and quantity of their work.
 Component I is comprised of two years of an innovative structured mentoring and support for earning a Master
of Public Health (MPH) in Urban Health Disparities with added foci on the Science of Minority Health, Community-
Based Participatory Research, and Recruitment and Retention of Minority Underserved Populations for Clinical
and Epidemiological Research.
 Component II is comprised of pilot research projects that will enable participants to continue working toward
establishing their own independent research program as clinical research scientists leading to applications for
individual mentored career development (K) or research grant (R series) awards.
 The CDU-CRECD Program will be embedded within the existing, extensive clinical research and training
infrastructure at CDU and UCLA, and thus will mutually leverage resources with other CDU research education
and career development programs so as to achieve maximal cross-program synergies as well as efficiencies
from utilizing already-in-place education and training curricula and related resources germane to the CRECD
agenda. The CDU-CRECD Program will also carve out a unique niche of training and career development
opportunities within the broader CDU science-generating “critical mass” by (1) focusing exclusively on urban
health disparities and community-partnered participatory methods in the research and research training agenda
and (2) providing to each trainee an intensive and community-immersive mentoring configuration that includes
CDU faculty from both the conventional Academic Career track and the Community Faculty track. This intensive
mentoring innovation directly emerges from, and formalizes and systematizes into a signature trainee mentoring
configuration, a long and fruitful history of community-engaged research, training, and educational curricula at
CDU. As an integrated research training and career development package, this approach is designed to bring
social determinants of health to the forefront of epidemiological and clinical research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10709583
- **Project number:** 5R25MD007610-12
- **Recipient organization:** CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED & SCI
- **Principal Investigator:** MOHSEN BAZARGAN
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $530,879
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-09-19 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10709583

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10709583, CDU-CRECD Mentored Postdoctoral Training in the Science of Minority Health and Health Disparities Program (5R25MD007610-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10709583. Licensed CC0.

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