Dr Ruth Enid Zambrana receives $500K Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Professor Ruth Enid Zambrana has received a a new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This 2 year grant (2023-2025) for about $500,000 is to conduct a study of senior leadership and aspirational faculty leaders in 5 different types of higher education institutions. The project employs mixed methods research to examine the leadership experiences and effective strategies of former and current URM leaders in medicine, public health, nursing and STEM and the perceptions and experiences of aspirational leaders to co-produce a leadership institutional health equity and fairness curriculum template. The outcomes are geared to increase the leadership representation of underrepresented minority faculty in health related fields.