National Rehabilitation Research Capacity Building

Transcript:National Rehabilitation Research Capacity Building:
National Rehabilitation Research Capacity Building and Covid-19 Agenda Among African Americans With Disabilities: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective Presenters: Edward O. Manyibe, Research Associate Professor & Capacity Building Director & Andre L. Washington, Research Assistant Professor &Technical Assistance Coordinator Annual Disability Statistics Compendium (February 12, 2021) LU-RRTC Mission To empower minority-serving institutions/ minority entities (e.g., historically Black colleges/universities [HBCUs], Hispanic-serving institutions [HSIs], Tribal Colleges/universities [TCUs], and Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-serving Institution (ANNAPISIs]) to improve their disability and rehabilitation research capacity and infrastructure by conducting a programmatic line of research examining experiences and outcomes of persons with disabilities from traditionally underserved racial and ethnic populations and communities and capacity-building efforts. Annual Conference on Disability Statistics: Meeting Emerging Demands for Data February 12 , 2021 – Zoom Webcast The Problem Disparate rehabilitation and health outcomes and experiences among African Americans are well documented. Recent forecast research indicates that such disparity trends are likely to endure in the absence of innovative policy and practice interventions (e.g., Moore, Wang, Eugene-Cross, & Washington, 2016). While African Americans/Blacks make up 13 percent of the U.S. population, they account for only 4.8% of professionals employed in the science and engineering disciplines. Annual Conference on Disability Statistics: Meeting Emerging Demands for Data February 12, 2021 – Zoom Webcast Drivers of Existing Inequities An important driver of these national disparities is the under-participation of HBCUs and other minority serving institutions and their researchers of color, including those with disabilities in in federally-sponsored disability/health and rehabilitation R&D (Manyibe, Moore, Aref, et al., 2017; Moore et al., 2015). Our seminal study (Moore et al., 2012), funded through a Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Distinguished Professor Endowed Chair (DPEC) award, documented this participation inequity (Moore et al. 2012). Annual Conference on Disability Statistics: Meeting Emerging Demands for Data February 12, 2021 – Zoom Webcast What LU-RRTC Is Doing to Address the Problem Annual Conference on Disability Statistics: Meeting Emerging Demands for Data February 12, 2021 – Zoom Webcast Peer-to-Peer Mentorship Research Team Model (PMRTM- Research Program 1A) Goal: The goal of this promising and emerging framework is to test the model’s potential for building faculty members’ scientific research skills (e.g., research design, data collection techniques, and theoretical frameworks, selection of research questions, publication practices, & proposal development). Annual Conference on Disability Statistics: Meeting Emerging Demands for Data February 12, 2021 – Zoom Webcast Peer Multiple Mentor Model (PMMM)