Investigator Development Core

项目摘要/摘要-调查员开发核心 科学界面临着使其科学工作人员多样化和提高代表性的迫切需要。 在公共卫生和环境卫生研究的各个方面，从健康差距人口。这一需求 超越了多个教育水平，并不局限于博士水平的科学家，如 越来越多地向不同社区传播公共卫生预防措施并与之接触 需要一支训练有素的多元化劳动力队伍。因此，马德雷斯中心的主要任务是 调查员开发的核心将是培养下一代独立科学家和研究人员 在环境健康差距研究方面。这一使命的基础是致力于提供正式和 从本科生到助理教授的多层次教育的非正式指导。IDC的目标 将通过以下具体目标实现：(1)促进有希望的早期试点项目方案 来自健康差距人群的阶段调查员；(2)重建环境流行病学和 为卫生专业本科生和研究生设计的社区参与实习计划 加州州立大学北岭分校联盟伙伴大学目前招收的不平等人口 (CSUN)和(3)促进对学生、博士后和早期调查人员的指导(包括试点项目 获奖者)，从本科生到助理教授，一直到 个性化的职业支持、网络机会以及报告、演示文稿和补助金的审核 提案。国际数据中心在行政核心的支持下，将运行一个正式程序，以接收、 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，具体取决于 该项目旨在促进健康差距人群的早期研究人员的科研事业。这个 马德雷斯中心与CSUN的实习计划和试点项目计划将培养本科生， 研究生和早期调查人员的职业生涯并刺激新的多学科合作 环境健康差距研究。

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.