Mentorship | IHEER

Pathway to Health Equity Mentored Pipeline (HEMP) and Training Program

Flexible, Adaptable, Evidenced-Based

2024 Mentoring Report

As part of its mission to serve disadvantaged and underrepresented students, IHEER's HEMP and training programs introduces prospective individuals interested in public health, medicine, behavioral health, and health-related social and behavioral sciences to mentored community-focused, experiential research.

These programs focus on immersive and experiential health equity research and educational opportunities with our global network of academics, educators, health professionals, and other students. These collective and collaborative efforts aid students in growing relevant knowledge, research skills, and understanding of the importance of engaging relevant communities when conceptualizing, designing, and implementing health equity solutions. HEMP improves skill sets that enhance their capacity to thrive, bolster their resume/CV, and prepare for entry into university and college programs.

These programs are for students in high school (9th-12th grade), university, or college, those assessing a professional change, and health professionals seeking a mentored training experience.

Programs

Apprenticeship Bridge to University Excellence

This is a summer internship in health equity research for high school students, undergraduates, and graduate students. This program is a full-time, eight week summer program featuring:

Mentored hands-on public health, behavioral health, or social science research experience related to one of our research pods.
Opportunities to conduct research while training in qualitative and quantitative methodologies, mixed-method research, data collection and analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of research findings.
Seminars on health disparities (examining the disproportionate burden of health inequities-such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, maternal/perinatal health, infectious diseases)
Enrichment educational activities that strengthen skills critical for a successful career in the sciences, such as analytical thinking, and scientific communication.

Immersive Research Experiences

Our research experiences accepts qualified hardworking undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career, and health professional researchers on a perpetual basis.

Individuals in this program work closely with IHEER's collaborators, partners, and a research team based on individual interest in IHEER's ongoing research program or a study idea that aligns with IHEER's mission.

During the experiences, participants gain hands-on experience in conducting community-focused, interdisciplinary research, essential methodologies and methods, and analytical skills. They participate in various stages of the research process, from literature review and research or hypothesis formulation to data collection, analysis, and dissemination of findings via peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences, webinars, community presentations, and social media.

Immersive Research Pods

Collaborative pods are designed to house mentoring program to immerse participants in team-driven research experiences

Maternal Racism-Specific Coping Mechanisms

Black Women Speak Health Resilience

Health-in-All-Policy Approach to Cardiovascular Disease

Dual Nicotine Use among Black Adults

Digital Health Research and Development

Implementation Science Training

IHEER's Implementation Science Training program is aligned with the National Institutes of Health (2024-2028).

This program provides implementation science training for university/college students, health professionals, and practitioners to 1) understand the best practices and approaches to translating research to the real world and 2) apply and adapt these approaches in different context settings to achieve health equity outcomes for diverse and underserved women.

To advance these objectives, participants engage in the following activities:

Case Study Analysis Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)
Stakeholder Role-Play with the PARiHS Framework
Implementation Plan Development with RE-AIM
Simulation Game: Knowledge-to-Action (KTA) Cycle
Community Partnership Project with Theory of Implementation Frameworks (TMF)

Translational community-engaged efforts are conducted through implementation science approaches, ensures that relevant evidence, interventions, and outcomes are generated to inform clinical and public health practices and policies in transformational efforts to promote health equity among underserved women.