Native American Short-Term Research Education Program in Children's Health

美国原住民儿童健康短期研究教育计划

• 批准号: 10347343
• 负责人: Maija Holsti
• 金额: $ 12.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10347343
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African American population; Age; Alaska Native; American Indians; Area; Asthma; Bachelor' s Degree; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular system; Cessation of life; Child Health; Cirrhosis; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Skills; Collaborations; Communities; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Drops; Education; Family; Family member; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Hematological Disease; Hematology; Home; Infection; Internships; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Leadership; Longevity; Lung; Lung diseases; Malignant Neoplasms; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Morbidity - disease rate; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Native Americans; Native-Born; Obesity; Outcome; Participant; Pneumonia; Population; Positioning Attribute; Reduce health disparities; Reporting; Research; Research Assistant; Research Personnel; Research Support; Risk Factors; Science; Scientist; Smoking; Students; Substance abuse problem; Talents; Training; Training and Education; Trauma; United States; Universities; Utah; Work; base; career; chronic liver disease; college; community engagement; disorder risk; education research; effectiveness evaluation; ethnic minority; experience; health disparity; higher education; innovation; interest; medical schools; member; mortality; native elder; peer; programs; racial minority population; recruit; summer internship; summer research; tribal Nation; undergraduate student; underserved community

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Health disparities in AI/AN communities exist throughout the lifespan and include morbidity and deaths from cardiovascular disease, smoking related illnesses, obesity, diabetes, infection, chronic liver disease/cirrhosis, substance abuse, and trauma, among others. AI/AN people die at a younger age with 25% of AI/AN deaths occurring before age 45, compared with 15% of African Americans and 7% of Whites. Eliminating health disparities, requires the identification, recruitment, education, and training of the most talented scientists in the U.S. Our holistic and comprehensive Native American Summer Research Internship program in Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, and Hematology diseases (NARI-NHLBI) was developed, based on principles of community engagement, to support AI/AN students (who are underrepresented and underserved in both higher education and healthcare) with an ultimate goal of increasing AI/AN representation and leadership in science/medicine and thus narrow the gap of significant AI/AN health disparities. During the last renewal, we expanded to include the NARI-MD/PhD Program. NARI-NHLBI and MD/PhD undergraduate participants receive research, cultural, and professional mentorship and training with committed community members and renowned scientists. With the help of this NARI-NHLBI initiative, the NARI-MD/PhD is now a sustainable partner within the NARI program. To date, 65 NARI-NHLBI participants represent 35 tribal nations, 35 colleges/universities, and 20 home states and 10 NARI-MD/PhD participants represent 5 tribal nations, 9 colleges/universities, and 6 home states. Of the 65 NARI-NHLBI Program participants, 56 (86%) have completed a bachelor’s degree and the remaining 9 (14%) are current undergraduate students. Of the 10 NARI-MD/PhD Program participants, 7 (70%) have completed a BS degree and the remaining 3 (30%) are current undergraduate students. No one has dropped out of college. To date, 17 (26%) NARI-NHLBI participants and 6 (60%) NARI-MD/PhD participants have worked in biomedical science fields as research assistants. Upon obtaining their undergraduate degree, 28 (50%) of the 56 NARI-NHLBI graduates and 2 (29%) of the 7 NARI-MD/PhD graduates are continuing their education in the health/science fields: 16 NARI- NHLBI and 1 NARI-MD/PhD participants were accepted into a graduate program; 12 NARI-NHLBI and 1 NARI- MD/PhD participants were accepted into medical school. Our current NARI participants continue to report that cardiovascular disease, obesity, and smoking related illness were the top health concerns of their families. Thus, we hope to continue the current NARI-NHLBI research experiences for NARI trainees in the field of cardiovascular, pulmonary and hematology research. It is with this proposal, that we hope to continue our successful summer research support for twelve AI/AN participants interested in NARI-NHLBI research and expand our professional development opportunities to better engage NARI-NHLBI participants in basic laboratory and clinical skills.

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