HELI

In partnership with the Maryland Center for Health Equity in the School of Public Health, University of Maryland College Park, HELI is an intensive weeklong "research boot camp" focused on increasing the number of investigators, particularly minority investigators, engaged in health disparities/health equity research that are successful in tenure track academic appointments in schools of public health, medicine and other health and behavioral health science disciplines, assisting them in achieving research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Focus: HELI is an intensive weeklong “research boot camp” focused on increasing the number of researchers, particularly minority investigators, engaged in health disparities/health equity research and competing successfully for tenure track and leadership positions.

Content: Presentations by health equity researchers from multiple academic institutions and the NIH; visits to community partner research sites to enhance knowledge of community-engaged research; tips for research mentor selection and alignment, addressing work/life balance, research manuscript development, grant writing, mock study sections, and more!