The overarching research and evaluation question is whether BUILD and NRMN programs improve student, faculty/researcher, and/or institutional short and intermediate outcomes that lead to a more diverse biomedical workforce and how different program components differentially affect these outcomes. Using proven evaluation metrics and methods, the Evaluation Core (EC) is assessing the attainment of hallmarks of career success, including core competencies, by DPC participants at multiple career stages, as well as documenting indicators of institutional transformation. We are also positioned to evaluate, in the long term, whether the practices that improve outcomes lead to higher rates of career success in the biomedical field.
The Specific Aims of the EC are to:
Senior Investigator
Core Co-Director
Sylvia Hurtado is Professor of Education at UCLA, and served as Director of the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) for over a decade. She has led several national research projects, including a NIH/NIGMS-sponsored project (R01) on the longitudinal assessment of students aspiring for STEM careers and case studies of institutional strategies to broaden participation in STEM. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, STEM education, and diversity in higher education. She is past-President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and served on Board of Higher Education and Workforce, Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Research Council/NASEM. She served on study committees that produced several National Academy Press reports on STEM, student success, and mentoring. She is senior investigator in the NIH's Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) Coordination and Evaluation, UCLA.
Senior Investigator
Core Co-Director
Dr. Christie's work has three main foci: Applied evaluation research studies, Research on evaluation practice and Theoretical analysis.
Dr. Christie is committed to training educational scholars in mixed-methods, and evaluation and research methods. She is the former Chair of the Theories of Evaluation Division and the Research on Evaluation Division and now serves on the board of the American Evaluation Association (elected) as member at large (2011-2013). She served as a section editor of the American Journal of Evaluation (2004-2009) and serves on the editorial board of Studies in Educational in Evaluation.
The focus of Lourdes Guerrero's work includes education, diversity, workforce development and substance use prevention. She is committed to diversity issues and community-based, culturally relevant programs.
Nicky MacCalla is a team lead for the Diversity Consortium Evaluation (UCLA Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC)). She specializes in Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) and the evaluation of professional learning programs. She is committed to the use of Utilization Focused Evaluation (UFE), Participatory Evaluation, Theory-Based Evaluation, and Culturally Response Evaluation (CRE) in the evaluation of programs and initiatives. Her research interests include collaborative group facilitation, evaluation for organizational development, meaningful measures of teacher effectiveness, and design of comprehensive teacher evaluation systems. She is certified in Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools and a member of the California Department of Education (CDE) Teacher-Based Academic Reform (T-BAR) Leadership Commission. She is the former Director of Research for the Teacher Initiated Inquiry Project (TIIP) at UCLA Center X. Professor MacCalla also teaches quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to research as a Lecturer at the USC Rossier School of Education.
Professor Wallace is Professor of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Associate Director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research He is Co-PI of the coordinating center for NIA’s Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research, and PI of several projects that provide community-based training on how to use data to advocate for improving access to care for underserved populations in California. He is a leading scholar nationally on aging in communities of color an on immigrant health.
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Public Health PhD Student
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Catherine M. Crespi, Ph.D. is a Professor of Biostatics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her field expertise includes biostatics, cancer, community health, disease prevention, minority health, obesity, preventions and intervention studies, program planning and evaluation and statistical methodology. She is affiliated with the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Crespi has served as President of the Western North American Region of th eInternational Biometric Society and on the Board of Trustees of the National Insititute of Statistical Sciences. She is on the editorial board of the journal of the National Cancer Institute and has served on review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the University of California Research Coordinating Committee.
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Investigator
Krystle Cobian conducts longitudinal evaluation of the Consortium's efforts. She earned her Ph.D in Higher Education and Organizational Change from UCLA. While at UCLA, Krystle worked as a research analyst at the Higher Education Research Institute, was the team lead on a research team for a U01 grant aimed at broadening and diversifying the STEM workforce, and served on the operations board of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science. Her research interests include underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities in the sciences, STEM undergraduate education, STEM career pathways for women of color, leadership development and organizational transformation.
Gerald Bempong is an administrator with expertise in public health advocacy, research and administration. As the primary administrative point person for the Evaluation Core (EC) of the CEC as well as the Publications and Presentation Sub-committee (PPsC) of the Consortium, Gerald works with the directors of the EC and chairs of the PPsC to coordinate and provide administrative support for their activities.
Publications- Harawa, N.T., Bempong,G.A., Fields, S., Leibowitz, A., Lee, D.,Meyer, P., ... & Shoptaw, S. Engaging Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (BMSM) in Los Angeles in HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). February 2016. California HIV/AIDS Policy Centers. Access Publication Here
- Asare-Bempong G, Ramamurthi HC, McCuller J, Williams JK, Harawa NT (2014) Recruiting Black Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (BMSMW) in an Urban Setting for HIV Prevention Research. J AIDS Clin Res 6: 408. Access Publication Here
