scholarly journals Commentary on the special issue on disproportionate adversity: Trauma, stress, and adversities and health disparities among disenfranchised groups globally during the COVID pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soraya Seedat
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Trauma Stress

Applying Transdisciplinary Research Strategies to Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Inequities

This overview for the special issue of Health Education & Behavior on “Health Disparities and Social Inequities” briefly outlines the transdisciplinary (TD) approach to research and examines the scope of TD science. The need to embrace basic science as well as several domains of applied research is discussed along the TD “pipeline” from discovery to development to delivery to policy. The overview concludes with selected examples of the emerging TD science of disparities. One central challenge for a TD approach is the need to strengthen what is being called “the science of dissemination” along with improving the “dissemination of evidence-based science.”

scholarly journals Foreword: NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research Focused on Precision Medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
Nishadi Rajapakse ◽  
Michael H. Sayre ◽  
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Precision Medicine ◽  
Minority Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
National Human ◽  
Implementation And Dissemination

The NIMHD Transdisciplinary Collaborative Centers for Health Disparities Research Focused on Precision Medicine (PM TCCs) comprise regional coalitions of research institutions and consortium partners focused on priority research topics in minority health and health disparities. In April 2016, NIMHD in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the PM TCC program to fund five centers across the United States to stimulate health disparities research with an emphasis on precision medicine to address one or more documented health disparities, combining expertise in genomics and other ‘omics, physiology and medicine, population health disparities, behavioral and social sciences, and the science of translation, implementation and dissemination. The TCC program's overarching goal is to develop and disseminate effective interventions that can be implemented in real-world settings with the goal of promoting health equity and reducing health disparities. This special issue of Ethnicity & Disease is dedicated to cutting-edge research conducted by the five PM TCCs at the intersection between precision medicine and health disparities. Articles in this issue will enhance knowledge in a variety of research topics from perspectives on precision medicine among different health disparity populations to methods for reducing inequities in protocols, interventions, and health information and further to efforts to promote inclusion to all populations, especially the most vulnerable.Ethn Dis. 2020;30(Suppl 1):135-136; doi:10.18865/ed.30.S1.135.

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