Outcomes of a Career Development Program for Underrepresented Minority Investigators in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group

Gustavo E Velásquez; Moises A Huaman; Kimberly R Powell; Susan E Cohn; Shobha Swaminathan; Martine Outlaw; Gail Schulte; Quinteka McNeil; Judith S Currier; Carlos Del Rio; Jose Castillo-Mancilla

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz069

Outcomes of a Career Development Program for Underrepresented Minority Investigators in the AIDS Clinical Trials Group

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Feb 11;6(3):ofz069. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz069. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Library and Information Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
⁷ Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland.
⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
⁹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
¹⁰ Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.
¹¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado.

Abstract

We surveyed awardees of the Minority HIV Investigator Mentoring Program (MHIMP) of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Most reported clinical specialization in infectious diseases or HIV medicine (86%), and all but 1 (95%) are engaged in medical/health sciences research. The MHIMP helped retain early-career minority investigators in HIV/AIDS-related research.

Keywords: career development; infectious diseases; mentorship; minority investigators; training.

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