Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers

本申请旨在建立R25研究教育计划，“增强 未来ELSI研究人员的多样性“，其长期目标是帮助 使ELSI研究人员多样化，从而丰富ELSI学术。我们的节目 将利用地区多样性来建立一条识别和招募有前途的人的管道 来自人口群体的本科生在ELSI和生物伦理学方面的代表性一直较低。 我们的具体目标是：1)招收来自不同领域的本科生， 代表不足的群体和背景，用于探索和进行研究 基因组学和社会研究(方法、技能、历史和内容)；2)指导和 支持一小批跨学科实习生，让他们在 基因组学和社会研究，并激发他们追求这样的职业的兴趣，以及 将他们纳入地方、区域和国家生物伦理网络；以及，3)培育 并加强生命伦理学学者和单位之间的关系 巴尔的摩-哥伦比亚特区地区的大学，创建和维持一条区域管道 来自不同、代表性不足的群体和背景的学生进入 基因组学和社会研究，以及支持的机构结构和网络 随着时间的推移。 通过R25，我们的计划教职员工将创建一个为期15个月的培训和 导师经验，它的切入点将是一个新的基因组学和社会 约翰·霍普金斯大学多元化暑期实习计划(SIP)分部，提供 为期10周的强化ELSI研究经验。BI将能够提供多个 通过教员个人研究和我们的CEER获得的研究经验， 沟通传染病、基因组学与社会(桥梁)。关注校园内的 暑期计划，学生们将继续他们与霍普金斯计划的联系 在整个学年中，共同领导一项活动的计划(如研讨会、小组讨论、 外展活动)与他们在家中对基因组学和社会的兴趣有关 机构，并在接下来的一周内返回霍普金斯大学和伯曼研究所 夏季进行额外的培训，并与下一批受训人员建立联系。R25 将在五年内每年资助五名实习生。每年将增加一名实习生 由我们的地区合作伙伴之一、马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校资助。

This application seeks to establish an R25 Research Education Program, “Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers,” with the long-term objective of helping to diversify the pool of ELSI researchers and thus enrich ELSI scholarship. Our program would draw on regional diversity to build a pipeline that identifies and recruits promising undergraduates from populations historically underrepresented in ELSI and bioethics. Our specific aims are: 1) To recruit undergraduate students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds to explore and conduct research in genomics and society studies (methods, skills, history, and content); 2) To mentor and support small cohorts of interdisciplinary trainees, exposing them to career options in genomics and society studies and sparking their interest in pursuing such a career, and integrating them into local, regional, and national bioethics networks; and, 3) To nurture and strengthen relationships between and among bioethics scholars and units at universities in the Baltimore-DC area, creating and sustaining a regional pipeline for the entry of students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds into genomics and society studies, and the institutional structures and networks to support them over time. Through the R25, our program faculty and staff will create a 15-month training and mentorship experience, the entry point of which will be a new Genomics and Society division of the Johns Hopkins Diversity Summer Internship Program (SIP), offering an intensive 10-week ELSI research experience. The BI will be able to offer multiple research experiences through individual faculty research and through our CEER, Bridging Infectious Disease, Genomics & Society (BRIDGES). Following the on-campus summer program, students will continue their connection to the Hopkins Program throughout the academic year, co-lead the planning of an activity (e.g., seminar, panel, outreach event) related to their interests in Genomics and Society at their home institution, and return to Hopkins and the Berman Institute for one week the following summer for additional training and connection with the next cohort of trainees. The R25 will fund five trainees per year for five years. An additional trainee each year will be funded by University of Maryland Baltimore County, one of our regional partners.