Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: The annual National Conference on Health Disparities (NCHD) was launched in 2000. It unites health professionals, researchers, community leaders, and government officials, and is a catalyzing force in developing policies, research interventions, and programs that address prevention, social determinants, health disparities, and health equity. The NCHD Student Research Forum (SRF) was established in 2011 at the Medical University of South Carolina to build high-quality biomedical research presentation capacity in primarily underrepresented undergraduate and graduate/professional students. This paper describes the unique research training and professional development aspects of the NCHD SRF. These include guidance in abstract development, a webinar on presentation techniques and methods, a vibrant student-centric conference, and professional development workshops on finding a mentor and locating scholarship/fellowship funding, networking, and strategies for handling ethical issues in research with mentors. Between 2011 and 2018, 400 undergraduate and graduate/professional students participated in the NCHD SRF. Most students were women (80.5%). Approximately half were African American or black (52.3%), 18.0% were white, and 21.3% were of Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity. The NCHD SRF is unique in several ways. First, it provides detailed instructions on developing a scientific abstract, including content area examples. Second, it establishes a mandatory pre-conference training webinar demonstrating how to prepare a scientific poster. Third, it works with the research mentors, faculty advisors, department chairs, and deans to help identify potential sources of travel funding for students with accepted abstracts. These features make the NCHD SRF different from many other conferences focused on students' scientific presentations.
Source: Journal of Cancer Education
Authors: Marvella E. Ford, Angela M. Malek, Erica Martino, Latecia Abraham-Hilaire, Oluwole Ariyo, Dana Burshell, Gloria Callwood, Laura Campbell, Kimberly Cannady, Courtney Chavis, Brittney Crawford, Andie Edwards, Victoria Findlay, Rita Finley, Chamiere Greenaway, Tonya Hazelton, Monique Hill, Marion Howard, Kendrea D. Knight, Vanessa Lopez-Littleton, Lloyd Moore, Diandra Randle, David E. Rivers, Judith D. Salley, Terry Seabrook, Sabra Slaughter, James B. Stukes, Roland J. Thorpe, LaVerne Ragster
Institutions: Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, Allen University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of the Virgin Islands, Morehouse School of Medicine, California State University, Monterey Bay, South Carolina State University, Johns Hopkins University
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,280
Funders: U.S. Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Office of Defense Programs, National Institute on Aging, National Cancer Institute, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Awards: Stress and Mortality Among Black Men, South Carolina Cancer Health Equity Consortium (SC CHEC): Summer Undergraduate Research Training Program, SOUTHEASTERN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND WELLNESS, PHASE TWO, G4119534169, South Carolina Cancer Disparities Research Center (SC CaDRe), G5324093878, Lifestyle associated reactive metabolites and their negative impact on breast cancer risk, G5850682332, SOUTHEASTERN VIRTUAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND WELLNESS (SE VIEW), Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Improving Resection Rates among African Americans with NSCLC, SC Cancer Disparities Research Center (2 of 2), South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR), South Carolina Cancer Disparities Research Center (SC CADRE), THE SOUTH CAROLINA COLLABORATIVE UNDERGRADUATE HBCU STUDENT SUMMER TRAINING PROGRAM AWARD, Medical University of South Carolina - Cancer Center Support Grant
OpenAlex ID: W3206900166