ReACH Equity T32 Predoctoral Training Program

Across the program, participants will complete the following:

1. Devote at least 20 hours per week to training program activities and to appropriately balance their curriculum requirements with research training commitments.
2. Work with their mentorship team to develop a training plan appropriate to their experience, needs, and degree requirements that will allow them to most effectively further their own disciplinary competence and enhance their career development capabilities
3. Didactic Training including the following:
   1. Health equity research methods: Course in community-engaged and advanced research methods, completion of the health equity graduate certificate, weekly seminars, workshops, bimonthly lunches, and an annual retreat
   2. Multi-level preventive interventions: Courses in implementation science, Principles and Methods of Comparative Effectiveness Research, and Clinical Research Implementation (CLH 216), weekly seminars, and workshops.
   3. Advanced methods: Trainees will select either a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science or Feminist Theory and Research.
4. Experiential Learning including the following:
   1. Bimonthly Directors’ luncheons focusing on professional development. Content will include:
      1. Chalkboard presentations by one predoctoral student to train this important skill that is paramount in academic job interviews with direct feedback
      2. Open discussion to obtain feedback, develop ideas for the retreats and fieldtrip targets, communicate policies of our training grant and general NIH T32 policies (e.g., payback policy, pertinent RCR issues, human subjects, etc.)
      3. Publication clinic to help predoctoral students strategically plan publications, productively assemble manuscripts and steer them through the peer review process
      4. Presentation clinic specific for presenting research from inception to dissemination to lay audiences and specifically the Community Leadership Board.
   2. Trainee presentations about their ongoing research at SON and CHPR seminars
   3. Central Valley bus tour, which is an interprofessional mobile classroom in which students take an overnight trip down Highway 99 in California and stop and learn at community centers, health organizations, and historical sites. The tour is narrated in real time by Central Valley historian David Hosley, who teaches social determinants of health, health inequities, and cultural humility.
   4. Mentoring a high school or undergraduate research student in one of their mentors’ laboratories and developing mentoring expertise, including a mentoring model for themselves.

Funding

Fellows will receive funding equivalent to a 50% graduate student researcher (currently $32,495), full tuition, and a small budget for travel. Childcare costs are also available.

Co-Directors

• Leigh Ann Simmons, Ph.D., M.F.T., F.A.A.H.B.
• Courtney Lyles, Ph.D.