About the Program
Designed for Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Fellows and Junior Faculty (rank of Clinical Instructor or Assistant Professor) who are interested in conducting health equity academic research.
The 3 goals of the program are:
- Prepare PHM scholars to lead health-equity research in the care of hospitalized children
- Enhance the diversity of PHM scholars
- Build a repository of health-equity research resources
- Learn from national leaders with health equity research expertise to conduct a successful health equity research project
- Mentorship support for scholars
- Meet virtually monthly throughout the year with in-person meeting at PHM Annual Conference
- Funding support for scholars to attend the PHM Annual Conference
- Network with other HEAR-PHM scholars and national researchers
This program is funded by a NICHD R25HD111358 grant awarded to Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C.