# Presentation: 765024

## Special Populations Office: Our Role in Training

- Lula Beatty
- Special Populations Office
- Research Training Directors Meeting
- Bethesda
- November 3, 2006

## Objectives

- Discuss the purpose of the Special Populations Office
- Describe research development and training programs of the office
- Identify possible mutual concerns and interests

## SPO’s Vision and Goals

- The SPO strives to increase and improve the quality of the knowledge base on understanding, preventing and treating drug abuse and addiction particularly as drug use affects racial/ethnic minority and other health disparity populations.  Goals include:

## SPO’s Vision and Goals

- Preparing researchers to better address minority health disparities
- Stimulating/Encouraging research that will lead to more effective drug abuse and drug abuse related prevention and treatment approaches for racial/ethnic minority populations
- Increasing the number of racial/ethnic minority researchers engaged in drug abuse and related research

## Increasing the Number of Racial/Ethnic Minority Researchers

- Diversity (Minority) Supplement Program
- Summer Research with NIDA
- Research Development Seminar Series
- Expert Racial/Ethnic Minority Work Groups
- National Hispanic Science Network
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Initiative
- Minority Institutions Drug Abuse Research Program (MIDARP)
- Southern Africa Initiative

## Diversity (Minority) Supplement Program 

- NIH-wide program
- Supplement to NIDA grantees
- Mentoring/Training for an identified individual from underrepresented or disadvantaged population; includes support for persons with disabilities
- Certain mechanisms cannot be supplemented, e.g., Ts

## Diversity (Minority) Supplement Awards

**New & Continuing**
**FY 1994 – FY 2005 **

| FY | New Awards | Continuing Awards | Total Awards |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FY 1994 | 21 | 21 | 42 |
| FY 1995 | 35 | 18 | 53 |
| FY 1996 | 41 | 26 | 67 |
| FY 1997 | 34 | 28 | 62 |
| FY 1998 | 35 | 32 | 67 |
| FY 1999 |              41 |              20 | 61 |
| FY 2000 | 30 | 41 | 71 |
| FY 2001 | 38 | 23 | 61 |
| FY 2002 | 31 | 23 | 54 |
| FY 2003 | 32 | 26 | 58 |
| FY 2004 | 40 | 24 | 64 |
| FY 2005 | 38 | 28 | 66 |
| FY2006
Total | 40
456 | 
310 | 
726 |

## New Minority Supplement Awards

**FY 1994 – FY 2004**
**Gender, Level of Support & Ethnicity**

| FY | Gender |  | Level of Support |  |  |  |  | Ethnicity |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | M | F | HS | U | Pre | Post | I | Black | Hispanic | NA | PI | Asian |
| FY 1994 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| FY 1995 | 16 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| FY 1996 | 10 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 5 | 11 | 23 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| FY 1997 | 15 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| FY 1998 | 12 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| FY 1999 | 9 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| FY 2000 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| FY 2001 | 11 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| FY 2002 |    11 |     20 |    0 |    4 |   15 |    9 |   3 |     14 |     12 |      3 |      0 |      2 |
| FY 2003 | 8 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| FY 2004 | 14 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 5 | 12 | 25 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| FY 2005 | 13 | 25 | 0 | 3 |    17 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 139 | 277 | 6 | 37 | 206 | 77 | 88 | 235 | 129 | 16 | 20 | 17 |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

- M = Male
- F  = Female
- HS = High School			NA = Native American
- U = Undergraduate			PI = Pacific Islander
- Pre = Predoctoral
- Post = Postdoctoral
- I = Investigator

## Summer Research with NIDA

- Summer program for undergraduates and high school students from racial/ethnic minority groups
- 8-10 week research placement with NIDA investigator
- Off-shoot of Diversity Supplement program

## Summer Research with NIDA Program

-                 **FY 1997 – FY 2005**

| FY | Gender |  | Ethnicity |  |  |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | F | M | Black
 | Hispanic | NA | API | TOTAL |
| FY 1997 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | -- | 22 |
| FY 1998 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| FY 1999 | 31 | 8 | 31 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 39 |
| FY 2000 | 25 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 32 |
| FY 2001 | 25 | 15 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 40 |
| FY 2002 | 52 | 14 | 46 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 76 |
| FY 2003 | 48 | 24 | 43 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 72 |
| FY 2004 | 52 | 18 | 56 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 70 |
| FY 2005 | 58 | 26 | 50 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 84

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## Number of Summer Sites by Year

| 1997 | 20 |
| --- | --- |
| 1998 | 13 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 17 |
| 2002 | 24 |
| 2003 | 25 |
| 2004 | 27 |
| 2005 | 32 |
| 2006 | 35 |

## Minority Recruitment and Training Program (IRP)

- Summer program for persons in high school through college; some faculty support
- About 25 students participate each summer
- Partnered with an IRP scientist

## Seminar Series

- Technical assistance program established in 1980s for underrepresented scientists who are ready to apply for independent awards
- Must have written concept
- Provides science and proposal development lectures, small group discussion, and one-on-one mentoring in two-session seminars (about 6 months apart)

## Seminar Series

- Mentoring provided by staff and extramural scientists
- Second session centers on mock review led by NIDA SRA
- Expectation is that application will be submitted within 6 – 12 months after last session

## Seminar Series Outcomes

- In early years, success rate reported at over 80%
- A number of participants have become NIDA and other NIH grantees

## Selected Co-sponsored Programs

- Physician Scientist Program (NCMHD)
- Longitudinal research development program for racial/ethnic minority students (starting at 7th grade)
- High school students placed in NIDA IRP during summer
- Clinical Research Education and Career Development in Minority Institutions (NCRR)
- Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (NINDS)
- Minority Fellowship Programs (to professional associations)
- Native American Research Centers of Health (Indian Health Service)
- Summer Program at Harvard for Native American students
- 	(with NIMH and others)
- Summer internships, e.g., HACU, NAFEO, WIN

## Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs 

-      National Academy of Sciences study to
- Assess how well these NIH minority research training programs work
- Identify characteristics of successful programs, trainees and institutions
- Recommend strategies to render future assessments feasible
- Provide recommendations for a coordinated trainee tracking information system

## Difficulties Experienced

- Inadequate trainee tracking data
- Available data are not readily accessible
- Prohibition against accessing or viewing individual trainee race and gender data
- Lack of coordination among NIH minority research training IC representatives

## Conclusions

- Underrepresented minorities are entering the biomedical workforce as a direct result of the NIH minority research training programs
- Best feature is the research experience itself
- Financial support was another best feature, though needs to be increased
- Other positive features were opportunities to network and collaborate, prepare grant proposal

## Conclusions

- Mentoring needs to be improved (e.g., mundane administrative tasks)
- Half of T32 minority postdocs reported having no mentor
- Drop off of females at postdoc/junior faculty level
- Look beyond training the individual fellow to effect long-term change

## Common Concerns

- Meeting our expectations for inclusion of students from racial/ethnic population groups
- Evaluating effectiveness
- Tracking students and participants
- Ensuring that participants receive excellent mentoring, opportunities, and support
- Ensuring that grantees (mentors) feel supported and appreciated

## Can We Help You?

- Share names of students in our programs interested in pre and post doctoral support
- Share mentoring experiences, concerns and successes
- Know requirements of our Diversity Supplement program so that you can use it with R or other awards

## Will you help us?

- How can we show support for/appreciation of mentors
- Participate in our Seminar Series and other meetings as faculty/mentors

## Contact Us301-443-0441http://www.nida.nih.gov/about/organization/SPO/SPOHome.html

- Pamela Goodlow: Diversity Supplement and Seminar Series
- Flair Lindsey: Summer Research with NIDA
- Ana Anders: National Hispanic Science Network
- Derrick Prather: Work Groups and Southern Africa