Texas Minority Health, Education, Research and Outreach (Texas MiHERO)

项目摘要 德克萨斯州少数民族健康，教育，研究和推广（德克萨斯州MiHERO）的长期目标是 扩大北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心的能力，以加强研究 通过增加少数民族代表人数， 学生在健康差距研究，提供跨学科的研究和领导力培训，以初级 教师，并增加参与健康差距研究的卫生专业教师的数量。给定 对医生、医生科学家和其他卫生专业人员的大量需求， 人口，迫切需要研究对这些群体造成不成比例影响的疾病和病症， 需要做出更多努力，增加来自不同背景的个人参与， 研究少数群体的健康和健康差距，并鼓励他们考虑从事研究工作， 相关领域德克萨斯州健康差异中心（TCHD），由P20赠款资助的卓越中心 来自NIMHD的一项奖励将开发MiHERO计划，以提高健康差异研究能力， 增加健康差距的博士生劳动力规模，培养跨学科研究的初级教师 领导，并为高级研究人员提供机会，以发展研究重点在少数民族健康和 健康差距。MiHERO计划将开展三项优先活动： 优先活动1：制定一个跨学科的研究领导（IRL）的初级教师计划， 少数民族健康和健康差异 优先活动2：设立健康教育、认识和差异研究奖学金 （HEARD学者）计划招聘/保留不同的教师在少数民族健康和健康 差异。 优先活动3：增加生物医学、行为学和临床研究人员的多样性 每年从少数民族和代表性不足的群体中招募一批新的博士生， 关注健康差距。 我们将利用通过这一筹资机制获得的捐赠资金， 培训机会，鼓励拟议计划的参与者寻求研究和 这是解决健康差距问题的相关领域。养老金收入的影响将是 制定少数民族健康和健康差距方面的可持续方案，包括健康差距 研究生课程，一个初级教师发展计划，可以扩大到教师从 其他机构，以及一批在以下领域开展积极研究项目的健康差距研究人员 少数民族的健康和健康差异。

Project Summary The long term objective of the Texas Minority Health, Education, Research and Outreach (Texas MiHERO) is to expand the capacity of University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) to enhance research and research training in minority health and health disparities by increasing the number of under-represented students in health disparity research, providing interdisciplinary research and leadership training to junior faculty, and increasing the number of health professional faculty involved in health disparity research. Given the substantial need for physicians, physician scientists, and other health professionals to care for vulnerable populations, and the critical need to study diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect these groups, more efforts are needed to increase the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds in conducting research on minority health and health disparities, and encouraging them to consider careers in research and related fields. The Texas Center for Health Disparities (TCHD), a Center of Excellence funded by a P20 grant award from NIMHD will develop the MiHERO program to increase health disparity research capacity by increasing the size of the PhD workforce in health disparities, train junior faculty in interdisciplinary research leadership, and provide opportunities for senior investigators to develop research focus in minority health and health disparities. Three priority activities will be conducted under the MiHERO program:  Priority Activity 1: Develop an Interdisciplinary Research Leadership (IRL) Program for junior faculty in Minority Health and Health Disparities  Priority Activity 2: Establish a Health Education, Awareness and Research in Disparities Scholarship (HEARD Scholars) program for recruitment/retention of diverse faculty in Minority Health and Health Disparities.  Priority Activity 3: Increase the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research workforce by recruiting a new cohort of PhD students from minority and underrepresented groups each year who focus on health disparities. Using the endowment funds secured through this mechanism of funding, we will ensure the creation of robust training opportunities that encourage participants of the proposed program to seek careers in research and related field that address the issue of health disparities. The impact of the endowment income will be establishment of a sustainable program in Minority Health and Health Disparities, including health disparity curricula for graduate students, a junior faculty development program that can be expanded to faculty from other institutions, and a cadre of health disparity researchers who have active research projects in the area of Minority Health and Health Disparities.