Investigator Development Core

项目总结/摘要-制冷剂开发核心 科学界迫切需要使其科学工作队伍多样化并提高代表性 在公共卫生和环境卫生研究的各个方面，从健康差距人口。这种需要 超越了多个层次的教育程度，并不局限于博士水平的科学家，因为 向不同社区传播公共卫生预防措施并与之接触的情况日益增多 需要一支训练有素、多样化的劳动力队伍。因此，MADRES中心的主要使命 研究者发展核心将培养下一代独立的科学家和研究人员 环境健康差异研究。这一使命的基础是致力于提供正式和 从本科到助理教授的多个教育层次的非正式指导。IDC的目标 将通过以下具体目标来实现：（1）促进有希望的早期试点项目计划 从健康差异人群中进行阶段调查;（2）重新建立环境流行病学， 社区参与实习计划专为本科生和研究生从卫生 目前就读于联盟伙伴大学加州州立大学北岭分校的差异人口 （CSUN）和（3）促进学生，博士后和早期研究人员（包括试点项目）的指导 获奖者）跨越高等教育的连续性，从本科生到助理教授，通过 个性化的职业支持，网络机会，以及报告，演示文稿和赠款的审查 提案国际数据中心将在行政核心的支持下， 每年评估和选择最多六个试点项目，每个项目最高可达50 000美元，视项目范围而定。 该项目旨在促进来自健康差距人群的早期研究人员的科学研究事业。的 与CSUN合作的MADRES中心实习计划和试点项目计划将培养本科生， 研究生和早期研究人员的职业生涯，并刺激新的多学科合作， 环境健康差异研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT—INVESTIGATOR DEVELOPMENT CORE The scientific community faces a critical need to diversify its scientific work force and to improve representation from health disparity populations in all facets of public health and environmental health research. This need transcends multiple levels of educational attainment, and is not restricted to PhD level scientists, as dissemination of public health preventive measures to and engagement with diverse communities increasingly requires a well-trained and diverse workforce. Therefore, the primary mission of the MADRES Center’s Investigator Development Core will be to foster the next generation of independent scientists and research staff in environmental health disparities research. Underlying this mission is a commitment to providing formal and informal mentoring across multiple levels of education from undergraduate to assistant professor. The IDC goals will be accomplished through the following specific aims: (1) facilitate a pilot projects program for promising early stage investigators from health disparity populations; (2) re-establish an environmental epidemiology and community engagement internship program designed for undergraduate and graduate students from health disparity populations currently enrolled in consortium partner university, California State University Northridge (CSUN) and (3) facilitate mentorship of students, postdocs, and early stage investigators (including pilot project awardees) across the continuum of higher education, from undergraduates to assistant professors, through individualized career support, networking opportunities, and review of reports, presentations, and grant proposals. The IDC, with support from the Administrative Core, will operate a formal process for receiving, evaluating and selecting up to six pilot projects per year ranging up to $50,000 each depending on scope of the project to promote scientific research careers of early stage investigators from health disparity populations. The MADRES Center internship program with CSUN and the pilot projects program will foster undergraduate student, graduate student and early stage investigators’ careers and stimulate new multidisciplinary collaborations in environmental health disparities research.