Calling for a bold new vision of health disparities intervention research.

a Bold New Vision of Health Disparities Intervention Research In 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute on Aging, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research established the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) Program in response to a strategic priority at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better address inequities in health among underserved racial, ethnic, and poor populations. In 2009, NCI; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research partnered to continue the Program. This time they focused on addressing inequities in cancer and heart, lung, and blood diseases. The objectives of the 10 current CPHHDs are to develop and test multilevel interventions to reduce health disparities, to use community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles, to train a new generation of transdisciplinary researchers in collaborative team science, and to promote translation and broad dissemination of evidence-based strategies into practice and policy. Over the past five years, we, the Principal Investigators of the current CPHHDs, have drawn upon diverse scientific disciplines, populations, and geographic regions. We have worked together across the CPHHDs to engage in in-depth exploration of the most compelling health issues facing diverse, underserved populations and to advance the science of health disparities research. Based on our experiences, we suggest a bold new vision for health disparities intervention research. To inform this vision, we draw upon previous frameworks and present our own recommended intervention strategies to tackle health disparities.