The UTEP FIRST (United Toward Equity and Progress: Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) project focuses on maintaining inclusive environments to support early-career faculty across the university. This institutional-supported program will provide a framework to significantly impact health disparities, including a FIRST cohort of six faculty hires, by directing the training of students who will be the next-generation researchers.
The FIRST Cohort leadership team is composed of interdisciplinary academic leaders from public health, nursing, health professions, psychology, sociology and education with expertise in health disparities research, faculty development, evaluation and academic administration. Our team is committed to rigorous research spanning etiology to intervention/policy and to supporting and creating diverse and inclusive academic environments.
The UTEP FIRST Faculty Cohort announcement will be posted soon. Cohort faculty recruitment is currently in process.
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The UTEP FIRST (United Toward Equity and Progress: Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) project focuses on maintaining inclusive environments to support early-career faculty across the university. This institutional-supported program will provide a framework to significantly impact health disparities, including a FIRST cohort of six faculty hires, by directing the training of students who will be the next-generation researchers.
