Accelerators: Sparking Innovation and Transdisciplinary Team Science in Disparities Research

Carol R. Horowitz, Khader Shameer, Janice Gabrilove, Ashish Atreja, Peggy Shepard, Crispin N. Goytia, Geoffrey W. Smith, Joel Dudley, Rachel Manning, Nina A. Bickell and Maida P. Galvez
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Carol R. Horowitz: Center for Health Equity and Community Engaged Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Khader Shameer: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Janice Gabrilove: Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ashish Atreja: Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Peggy Shepard: WE ACT for Environmental Justice, New York, NY 10031, USA
Crispin N. Goytia: Center for Health Equity and Community Engaged Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Geoffrey W. Smith: Digitalis Ventures, New York, NY 10036, USA
Joel Dudley: Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Rachel Manning: Fordham Law School, New York, NY 10023, USA
Nina A. Bickell: Center for Health Equity and Community Engaged Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA
Maida P. Galvez: Center for Health Equity and Community Engaged Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA

IJERPH, 2017, vol. 14, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: Development and implementation of effective, sustainable, and scalable interventions that advance equity could be propelled by innovative and inclusive partnerships. Readied catalytic frameworks that foster communication, collaboration, a shared vision, and transformative translational research across scientific and non-scientific divides are needed to foster rapid generation of novel solutions to address and ultimately eliminate disparities. To achieve this, we transformed and expanded a community-academic board into a translational science board with members from public, academic and private sectors. Rooted in team science, diverse board experts formed topic-specific “accelerators”, tasked with collaborating to rapidly generate new ideas, questions, approaches, and projects comprising patients, advocates, clinicians, researchers, funders, public health and industry leaders. We began with four accelerators—digital health, big data, genomics and environmental health—and were rapidly able to respond to funding opportunities, transform new ideas into clinical and community programs, generate new, accessible, actionable data, and more efficiently and effectively conduct research. This innovative model has the power to maximize research quality and efficiency, improve patient care and engagement, optimize data democratization and dissemination among target populations, contribute to policy, and lead to systems changes needed to address the root causes of disparities.

Keywords: disparities; accelerator; translational research; team science; community engagement; environmental health; genomics; big data; digital health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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