scholarly journals Latinx Health Disparities Research During COVID-19: Challenges and Innovations

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 544-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Harkness ◽  
Karina A Gattamorta ◽  
Yannine Estrada ◽  
Daniel Jimenez ◽  
Mariano Kanamori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Latino Health ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Innovative Research

Abstract Background The Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO) supports and facilitates research addressing substance abuse, violence/trauma, and HIV/AIDS among diverse and underserved Latinx populations. CLaRO runs a pilot awards program for early-stage investigators conducting Latinx health disparities research. This pilot awards program was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitating innovative responses for research continuity. Purpose The purpose of this commentary is to describe the challenges and innovative research methods developed in response to COVID-19 to continue Latinx health disparities research in the context of COVID-19. Methods/Results This commentary provides a brief description of each CLaRO pilot project, the challenges introduced by COVID-19, and innovative research methods to continue Latinx health disparities research during and beyond COVID-19. Conclusions Despite the challenges COVID-19 presents to the continuity of health disparities research, it also presents unprecedented opportunities to innovate. Such innovation is essential for solving persistent scientific, public health, and clinical challenges underlying current and emerging health disparities.

scholarly journals Increasing the Number of Underrepresented Minority Behavioral Health Researchers Partnering With Underresourced Communities: Lessons Learned From a Pilot Research Project Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 865-871 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresa H. Cruz ◽  
Matthew E. Borrego ◽  
Janet Page-Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Behavioral Health Research

To address critical health equity issues facing racially and ethnically diverse populations, it is essential to have researchers from similarly diverse backgrounds. Such researchers provide different perspectives that may lead to distinct research questions, novel interpretation of findings, and innovative recommendations for health promotion practice. There is a continuing need to increase the number of researchers leading health research studies who are from underrepresented minority populations (URMs). The literature demonstrates the effectiveness of mentoring for career development and the need to hone existing mentoring models. The TREE Center developed an innovative model for building capacity among early stage investigators, with a focus on URMs, to increase the inclusivity of the research pipeline. Our model involves community-engaged behavioral health research mentoring, career development, training for grantspersonship, and guidance for manuscript development and submission. A pilot project program provided opportunities for 10 early stage investigators to develop relationships with public health practitioners and other community partners, to obtain funding, to manage a complex pilot research project, and to generate preliminary data. Awardees worked with an academic mentor, a community mentor, and TREE Center faculty to conduct and disseminate their research. Lessons learned include the need to account for funding cycle timing, address challenges of recruiting URMs, consider overutilization of senior URM mentors, and overcome institutional bureaucracies that hinder transdisciplinary research across campuses. We discuss strategies for addressing these challenges. Our model is replicable and could be implemented, especially by academic programs interested in cultivating early stage URM investigators to conduct behavioral health research.

RACE AND ETHNICITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH: Models to Explain Health Disparities

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Dressler ◽  
Kathryn S. Oths ◽  
Clarence C. Gravlee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research

scholarly journals When Public Health Research Meets Social Media: Knowledge Mapping From 2000 to 2018 (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Bolin Cao ◽  
Yifan Wang ◽  
Tai-Quan Peng ◽  
Xiaohua Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Research Themes

BACKGROUND Social media has substantially changed how people confront health issues. However, a comprehensive understanding of how social media has altered the foci and methods in public health research remains lacking. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine research themes, the role of social media, and research methods in social media–based public health research published from 2000 to 2018. METHODS A dataset of 3419 valid studies was developed by searching a list of relevant keywords in the Web of Science and PubMed databases. In addition, this study employs an unsupervised text-mining technique and topic modeling to extract research themes of the published studies. Moreover, the role of social media and research methods adopted in those studies were analyzed. RESULTS This study identifies 25 research themes, covering different diseases, various population groups, physical and mental health, and other significant issues. Social media assumes two major roles in public health research: produce substantial research interest for public health research and furnish a research context for public health research. Social media provides substantial research interest for public health research when used for health intervention, human-computer interaction, as a platform of social influence, and for disease surveillance, risk assessment, or prevention. Social media acts as a research context for public health research when it is mere reference, used as a platform to recruit participants, and as a platform for data collection. While both qualitative and quantitative methods are frequently used in this emerging area, cutting edge computational methods play a marginal role. CONCLUSIONS Social media enables scholars to study new phenomena and propose new research questions in public health research. Meanwhile, the methodological potential of social media in public health research needs to be further explored.

Measurement equivalence: a glossary for comparative population health research

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (7) ◽  
pp. 559-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Ann Morris
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Measurement Equivalence ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
Comparative Population

Comparative population health studies are becoming more common and are advancing solutions to crucial public health problems, but decades-old measurement equivalence issues remain without a common vocabulary to identify and address the biases that contribute to non-equivalence. This glossary defines sources of measurement non-equivalence. While drawing examples from both within-country and between-country studies, this glossary also defines methods of harmonisation and elucidates the unique opportunities in addition to the unique challenges of particular harmonisation methods. Its primary objective is to enable population health researchers to more clearly articulate their measurement assumptions and the implications of their findings for policy. It is also intended to provide scholars and policymakers across multiple areas of inquiry with tools to evaluate comparative research and thus contribute to urgent debates on how to ameliorate growing health disparities within and between countries.

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