Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care
Research Diversity (CEED) Program

The University of Pittsburgh is committed to becoming a leader in the national effort to encourage diversity among clinical and translational researchers. The 1-year Career Education and Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity (CEED) Program is designed to help postdoctoral fellows and faculty from underrepresented minority groups by providing them with the mentoring and training needed for successful research careers. The program enhances participants’ leadership, management, grant-writing, and other skills that will help them receive competitive career development awards. It also ensures a supply of diverse, well-qualified investigators to carry out basic science, clinical research, and translational research in the health sciences.

The program is open to fellows, postdoctoral trainees, and junior faculty who are in the schools of the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and are from underrepresented populations (individuals from African American, Hispanic, Native/American, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander groups and individuals with disabilities). Participants must have a doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PhD, PharmD, DMD, or DDS) and be committed to a career in clinical or translational research. In some cases, up to 25% of the CEED trainees’ effort is supported by the CTSI.

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