# Adolescent Health Training Program

> **NIH NIH T32** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $310,734

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
This is the first submission of this application for competitive renewal of the third cycle of the Adolescent Health
Promotion Research Training Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to
provide training in sexual and reproductive health research to post-doctoral Adolescent Medicine physicians.
While there have been some major success in utilizing effective interventions to address the high rates of
sexual and reproductive health morbidity among adolescents and young adults (AYA), significant age- and
racial-ethnic health disparities exist for youth in the United States. This is compounded by workforce shortages
of individuals who are trained in Adolescent Health with specialized skills to use scientific evidence to ensure
the healthy transition of youth into adulthood. Adolescent Medicine specialists, those who have contact with
AYA in clinical settings, must also serve as leaders in the development and implementation of new prevention
strategies to effectively prevent STIs, HIV, and unplanned pregnancy. This requires clinicians to critically
understand the biopsychosocial development of adolescents and to build upon scientific advancements
derived through collaboration with nurses, psychologists, epidemiologists, behavioral, social, and basic
scientists, and statisticians. We have created an interactive training environment using an adult learning model
that facilitates effective engagement of clinicians and scientists across pertinent fields to foster the
development of our trainees. Over the history of the grant, we successfully recruited physician fellows into
Adolescent Medicine fellowship and reproductive health research, of whom the majority were women and half
were under-represented minorities. All of the fellows who have graduated were recruited into academic
positions, key scientific leadership roles in government, and/or have initiated new agencies designed to
improve the health of adolescents more broadly. Based on these successes, we now request an additional five
years of funding to continue to support three fellows per year, one position for each of the three years of
research training. The Adolescent Medicine program at Johns Hopkins University is uniquely qualified to
develop and maintain such a program given the on-going research and quality of our faculty, the successful
outcomes of our previous trainees, the resources available to foster research development, and the continuous
influx of bright dedicated physicians committed to careers in Adolescent Medicine. Our program is also unique
because of our emphasis on innovation at the intersection of sexual and reproductive health and the larger
social ecology of adolescence to reduce the observed health disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9934872
- **Project number:** 5T32HD052459-14
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MARIA E. TRENT
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $310,734
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2006-05-01 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9934872

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9934872, Adolescent Health Training Program (5T32HD052459-14). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9934872. Licensed CC0.

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