TABLE 1—
Summary of Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Training Program Components to Address Key Scientific Elements for Health Disparities Research: Transdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Cancer Health Disparities Training
| Scientific Area/CPHHD Training | Selected References of Research Studies in Each Area |
| Social epidemiology | Diez Roux and Mair7 Vargas Bustamante et al.8 Thompson et al.9 |
| Introductory and advanced public health coursework on principles of social epidemiology | |
| Seminars on the science of social epidemiology | |
| Multilevel modeling | Holmes et al.10 Plascak et al.11 |
| Formal coursework on multilevel modeling | |
| Individual mentoring provided by statisticians with expertise in multilevel modeling | |
| Health care systems/health care delivery | Institute of Medicine12 Jones et al.13 Adams et al.14 |
| Formal coursework and degree programs in health services research | |
| Seminars, readings | |
| Community-based participatory research (CBPR) | De Marco et al.15 Gehlert and Coleman16 |
| Introductory and advanced public health coursework and seminars on CBPR | |
| Design of and participation in projects utilizing CBPR | |
| Participation in community advisory board activities and interfacing with the centers’ community advisory boards in designing and implementing their projects | |
| Implementation science | Jean-Jacques et al.17 Cooper et al.18 Ephraim et al.19 |
| Seminars and roundtable discussions to highlight and address health system factors and health policy factors influencing successful implementation of interventions | |
| Shadowing opportunities to meet with key community stakeholders to expose trainees to existing policy programs administered on a population scale and to provide diverse stakeholder perspectives to sustain and disseminate findings |