REU Site: Social Disparities in Health, Health Behavior, and Access to Care

REU 网站：健康、健康行为和获得护理方面的社会差异

• 批准号: 1460354
• 负责人: Jane Miller
• 金额: $ 34.98万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1460354&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Social; Disparities; Health

This project is supported under the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program, which is an NSF-wide program although each Directorate administers its own REU Site competition. This program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in an effort to introduce them to scientific research so as to encourage their continued engagement in the nation's scientific research and development enterprise. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects designed especially for the purpose. The REU program is a major contributor to the NSF's goal of developing a diverse, internationally competitive, and globally-engaged science and engineering workforce. The Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) sciences Directorate awarded this REU Site grant to Rutgers University New Brunswick which aims to prepare undergraduate students to conduct research on socioeconomic and behavioral disparities in health by enhancing their human, social, and cultural capital. Reducing disparities in health according to socioeconomic status, race, gender, and other demographic and cultural factors is a major objective of Healthy People 2020, which is used to set national priorities for health initiatives. The program prepares interns to integrate their perspectives into interdisciplinary research teams, so they can help advance knowledge about socioeconomic and behavioral causes and consequences of health disparities.This REU site recruits 8 undergraduate students per year targeting students from first-generation, low-income, and racial/ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in research careers. During the summer, interns receive extensive training in social science research methods, statistics, writing workshops, and lectures on health disparities to provide the foundation for individual research projects undertaken with faculty mentors. Interns complete the full deductive research process, and present their projects as research papers, posters, and speeches. During the academic year, they continue working with a mentor, revising their paper for submission to a conference or journal, and participating as a member of the mentor's research team. The Directors teach advising workshops on selecting graduate programs, writing graduate school application essays, and requesting letters of recommendation. (1) The training program prepares undergraduates to fill a crucial niche in addressing critical issues in health disparities by providing their insights into socioeconomic and cultural attributes of communities that disproportionately experience poor health. (2) The program expands and diversifies the racial/ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic composition of the social and behavioral science research workforce to more closely mirror the composition of the overall US population. (3) The program improves learning for all students and researchers in social and behavioral science fields by facilitating discussion of diverse points of view in classes, seminars, and in their mentors' collaborative research teams.

该项目是根据本科生（REU）网站计划，这是一个NSF范围内的计划，虽然每个董事会管理自己的REU网站竞争的研究经验的支持。该计划支持本科生积极参与研究，努力向他们介绍科学研究，以鼓励他们继续参与国家的科学研究和发展事业。REU项目以有意义的方式让学生参与正在进行的研究项目或专门为此目的设计的研究项目。REU计划是NSF发展多元化，具有国际竞争力和全球参与的科学和工程劳动力的目标的主要贡献者。社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学理事会授予罗格斯大学新玩法的REU网站赠款，旨在帮助本科生通过提高他们的人力，社会和文化资本来研究健康方面的社会经济和行为差异。根据社会经济地位、种族、性别和其他人口和文化因素减少健康方面的差距是《2020年健康人民》的一个主要目标，该目标用于确定国家卫生举措的优先事项。该计划培养实习生将他们的观点融入跨学科的研究团队，因此他们可以帮助推进有关社会经济和行为的原因和健康差异的后果的知识。这个REU网站每年招收8名本科生，目标是来自第一代，低收入和种族/民族群体的学生，这些群体在历史上在研究生涯中代表性不足。在夏季，实习生接受社会科学研究方法，统计，写作研讨会和健康差距讲座的广泛培训，为教师导师进行的个人研究项目提供基础。实习生完成完整的演绎研究过程，并以研究论文，海报和演讲的形式展示他们的项目。在学年期间，他们继续与导师合作，修改他们的论文提交给会议或期刊，并作为导师研究团队的成员参与。董事教咨询研讨会上选择研究生课程，写研究生院申请论文，并要求推荐信。(1)该培训计划准备本科生通过提供他们对不成比例地经历健康状况不佳的社区的社会经济和文化属性的见解，来填补解决健康差距中的关键问题的关键利基。(2)该计划扩大和多样化的种族/民族，性别和社会经济组成的社会和行为科学研究的劳动力，以更密切地反映美国整体人口的组成。(3)该计划通过促进课堂，研讨会和导师合作研究团队中不同观点的讨论，提高了所有学生和研究人员在社会和行为科学领域的学习。