Promoting Academic Excellence through Community Engagement and Research Scholars Program (PAECER Scholars Program)

项目概要 这是心血管科学短期（夏季，10 周）培训计划的新申请 代表性不足的本科学者。我们在现有的基础上提出独特的培训体验 与历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 以及美国心脏组织的核心团队合作 协会/美国中风协会 (AHA/ASA) 致力于创建一个新的范例来促进 为代表性不足的本科生提供通往健康科学职业和理想生活选择的途径 学者。拟议的项目为学生提供了智力、社会和文化上有益的体验 吸引多个层次的学者。我们利用范德比尔特大学的专业知识来培养学术人才 知识和研究技能以及 AHA/ASA 的公共卫生领导地位，提供综合培训 针对健康问题社会决定因素的计划。我们将提供为期 10 周的研究强化课程 沉浸式课程由 10 名学生组成，第四年和第五年扩大到 15 名。我们拥有一批杰出的导师 对心血管科学和疾病有不同的兴趣。领导团队由资深人士组成 在心血管疾病、指导和社区参与方面具有重叠专业知识的个人。在 除了心血管科学领域丰富的、受指导的研究经验外，我们还将提供独特的 观点和资源，提供一个富有成效的框架来充分理解健康不平等，以及 在学者及其导师和社区之间建立宝贵的联系。我们假设学生 在科学、医学、医疗保健或公共政策领域的职业道路上也必须接受现实生活的培训 社区参与和文化能力。他们必须了解并了解这些力量 除了健康的社会决定因素之外，还造成了全国普遍存在的健康差距 确定这些差异的性质和严重程度。我们的总体目标是雄心勃勃、创新的；我们寻求 创建一支学生骨干队伍，最终成为连接科学和科学所需的整合者 通过其学术和专业知识，为代表性不足的社区提供医疗保健系统 资历、建立和保持信任的能力以及文化能力技能。我们将通过以下方式实现这一愿景： 深入的学术研究和培训沉浸式体验，以指导为核心组成部分； 定期有机会与同事互动并获得协作、团队合作和 个人致富；以及接触 AHA/ASA 旨在通过公众解决健康不平等问题的举措 意识、教育、政策和社会变革。因此，我们将共同提供令人兴奋和全面的 少数族裔学者的经验，他们准备做出对未来有影响的职业定义、改变生活的决定 全国范围内健康的生物、行为和社会决定因素。

Project Summary This is a new application for a short term (summer, 10 week) training program in cardiovascular science for under-represented, undergraduate scholars. We propose a unique training experience that builds upon existing collaboration with a core group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) that seeks to create a new paradigm promoting the pathway to health science careers and aspirational life choices for a cadre of under-represented undergraduate scholars. The proposed program provides an intellectually, socially and culturally rewarding experience to engage scholars at multiple levels. We leverage the expertise Vanderbilt University to cultivate academic knowledge and research skills and AHA/ASA's public health leadership position to provide an integrated training program against a social determinants of health backdrop. We will provide a 10 week research intensive immersion for a cadre of 10 students, expanding to 15 in years 4 and 5. We have a pool of distinguished mentors with diverse interests related to cardiovascular science and disease. The leadership team is composed of senior individuals with overlapping expertise in cardiovascular disease, mentoring, and community engagement. In addition to an intense, mentored research experience in the area of cardiovascular science, we will offer unique perspectives and resources, provide a productive framework to fully understand health inequities, and foster invaluable connections among scholars and their mentors and communities. We posit that students on the path to professions in science, medicine, healthcare or public policy must also be trained on real-life community engagement and cultural competency. They must be aware and knowledgeable of the forces shaping the health disparities so prevalent in the nation, in addition to the social determinants of health that determine the nature and severity of those disparities. Our overall goal is ambitious and innovative; we seek to create a cadre of students that will ultimately become the integrators needed to connect science and systems of health care with underrepresented communities through their academic and professional credentials, ability to build and retain trust, and cultural competence skills. We will fulfill this vision through: an intensive academic research and training immersion experience, with mentoring as a central component; regular opportunities to interact with their peers and acquire the core values of collaboration, teamwork and personal enrichment; and exposure to AHA/ASA initiatives targeted to address health inequities through public awareness, education, policy and social change. Together, we will thus provide an exciting and comprehensive experience to minority scholars poised to make career-defining, life-changing decisions with future implications for the biological, behavioral, and social determinants of health across the nation.