PMID- 33562262 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210427 LR - 20240130 IS - 1660-4601 (Electronic) IS - 1661-7827 (Print) IS - 1660-4601 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 4 DP - 2021 Feb 7 TI - Building a Diverse Workforce and Thinkforce to Reduce Health Disparities. LID - 10.3390/ijerph18041569 [doi] LID - 1569 AB - The Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program was congressionally mandated in 1985 to build research capacity at institutions that currently and historically recruit, train, and award doctorate degrees in the health professions and health-related sciences, primarily to individuals from underrepresented and minority populations. RCMI grantees share similar infrastructure needs and institutional goals. Of particular importance is the professional development of multidisciplinary teams of academic and community scholars (the "workforce") and the harnessing of the heterogeneity of thought (the "thinkforce") to reduce health disparities. The purpose of this report is to summarize the presentations and discussion at the RCMI Investigator Development Core (IDC) Workshop, held in conjunction with the RCMI Program National Conference in Bethesda, Maryland, in December 2019. The RCMI IDC Directors provided information about their professional development activities and Pilot Projects Programs and discussed barriers identified by new and early-stage investigators that limit effective career development, as well as potential solutions to overcome such obstacles. This report also proposes potential alignments of professional development activities, targeted goals and common metrics to track productivity and success. FAU - Yanagihara, Richard AU - Yanagihara R AD - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. FAU - Berry, Marla J AU - Berry MJ AD - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. FAU - Carson, Monica J AU - Carson MJ AD - University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. FAU - Chang, Sandra P AU - Chang SP AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8535-964X AD - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. FAU - Corliss, Heather AU - Corliss H AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2553-6165 AD - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. FAU - Cox, Marc B AU - Cox MB AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7854-2676 AD - University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA. FAU - Haddad, Georges AU - Haddad G AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3664-9875 AD - Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, USA. FAU - Hohmann, Christine AU - Hohmann C AD - Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA. FAU - Kelley, Scott T AU - Kelley ST AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9547-4169 AD - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. FAU - Lee, Eun Sook Yu AU - Lee ESY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7047-5288 AD - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA. FAU - Link, Bruce G AU - Link BG AD - University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. FAU - Noel, Richard J Jr AU - Noel RJ Jr AD - Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, PR 00716, USA. FAU - Pickrel, Julie AU - Pickrel J AD - San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA. FAU - Porter, James T AU - Porter JT AD - Ponce Health Sciences University, Ponce, PR 00716, USA. FAU - Quirk, Gregory J AU - Quirk GJ AD - University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, PR 00936, USA. FAU - Samuel, Temesgen AU - Samuel T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9722-5318 AD - Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088, USA. FAU - Stiles, Jonathan K AU - Stiles JK AD - Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA. FAU - Sy, Angela U AU - Sy AU AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8071-899X AD - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. FAU - Taira, Deborah A AU - Taira DA AD - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA. FAU - Trepka, Mary Jo AU - Trepka MJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6585-1194 AD - Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA. FAU - Villalta, Fernando AU - Villalta F AD - Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, USA. FAU - Wiese, Thomas E AU - Wiese TE AD - Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA. 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EDAT- 2021/02/11 06:00 MHDA- 2021/04/28 06:00 PMCR- 2021/02/01 CRDT- 2021/02/10 01:01 PHST- 2020/12/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/01/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/02/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/02/10 01:01 [entrez] PHST- 2021/02/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/04/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijerph18041569 [pii] AID - ijerph-18-01569 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijerph18041569 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Feb 7;18(4):1569. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18041569.