Alabama State University-Auburn University Partnership to Promote Diversity in Aging Research

阿拉巴马州立大学与奥本大学合作促进衰老研究的多样性

• 批准号: 10410860
• 负责人: MANOJ K. MISHRA
• 金额: $ 29.34万
• 依托单位: ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10410860
• 关键词: Address; African American student; Aging; Alabama; Basic Science; Bioethics; Biology; Communities; Development; Development Plans; Diet; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Education Projects; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Foundations; Funding Agency; Genetic; Goals; Health; Health Personnel; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Incidence; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning Module; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Outcome; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Public Speaking; Readiness; Reporting; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Social Behavior; Socioeconomic Factors; Student recruitment; Students; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; base; career; career development; design; disease disparity; education research; experience; graduate student; health care availability; health disparity; improved; inter-institutional; multidisciplinary; organizational structure; peer coaching; programs; rapid growth; recruit; skills; statistics; student training; success; summer research; symposium; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underserved students

Project summary: In the US, aging related diseases and health disparities are frequently observed; the differences in disease incidence and outcomes are thought to reflect the interplay of socioeconomic factors, access to health care, culture, diet, the environment, and population-specific genetics/biology. To address this issue, educational and socio-behavioral changes are needed. These changes can be facilitated by diversifying the aging related research and educational workforce. Moreover, the rapid growth and accumulation of specialized knowledge in today’s biomedical fields, combined with health issues that persist among certain groups within the US population, emphasize the need to diversify this workforce. Based on national statistics, the numbers of PhD graduates from underrepresented backgrounds are low and have not changed appreciably over three decades, despite efforts from various funding agencies, including the NIH. Several national reports point out factors that challenge underrepresented students in graduate and biomedical programs in achieving terminal degrees. Therefore, we propose to build an Alabama State University (ASU)-Auburn University (AU) R25 Partnership to provide aging focused educational modules and to expose underserved students to a summer research experience, thereby accelerating the development of scientists/health care providers from underserved backgrounds. By leveraging the educational and research infrastructure of the AU (Auburn, AL) and educational programs of Historically Black College and University (HBCU)-minority- serving ASU (Montgomery, AL), we have developed a persistent, multi-faceted strategy, combining multidisciplinary and inter-institutional education and basic aging related research projects, to train undergraduate students from underrepresented communities. The proposed aging education and research experience will be available to rising juniors and rising seniors majoring in biomedical disciplines. As part of this R25 program, introductory aging related educational modules (online module development) and basic research training will be offered to selected students at ASU during academic year while aging research experiences will be provided at the AU. Each year, the program will support 10 students (recruited from ASU). During academic year with continuous and consistent engagement, the selected students at ASU will participate in enrichment activities, including education; mentoring (research and pre-professional); scientific writing seminars; technical, bioethics, and scientific workshops; and training for presentations. During summer, these students will perform aging related research at AU for 10 weeks. Each year, all students will make presentations during either a reginal or national Scientific Symposium. In summary, this proposed program at ASU and AU will train students from underrepresented communities and advance the national goal of increasing diversity in the US biomedical sciences workforce, particularly in aging research.

项目概要：在美国，与衰老相关的疾病和健康差异经常出现；这 疾病发病率和结果的差异被认为反映了社会经济因素的相互作用， 获得医疗保健、文化、饮食、环境和特定人群遗传学/生物学的机会。为了解决这个问题 问题、教育和社会行为的改变是必要的。这些变化可以通过多元化来促进 与老龄化相关的研究和教育劳动力。而且，快速增长和积累 当今生物医学领域的专业知识，结合某些人群中持续存在的健康问题 美国人口中的群体强调劳动力多元化的必要性。根据国家统计数据， 来自代表性不足背景的博士毕业生数量很少，并且没有明显变化 三十多年来，尽管包括美国国立卫生研究院在内的各个资助机构都做出了努力。多个国家报告 指出研究生和生物医学项目中代表性不足的学生在实现目标方面面临的挑战因素 终端学位。因此，我们提议建立一所阿拉巴马州立大学（ASU）——奥本大学 (AU) R25 合作伙伴关系，提供以老龄化为重点的教育模块并揭露服务不足的情况 学生获得暑期研究经验，从而加速科学家/健康的发展 来自服务不足背景的护理提供者。通过利用教育和研究基础设施 AU（阿拉巴马州奥本）和历史黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 的教育项目-少数民族- 为亚利桑那州立大学（阿拉巴马州蒙哥马利）服务，我们制定了持久的、多方面的战略，结合 多学科和跨机构教育和基础老龄化相关研究项目，以培训 来自代表性不足的社区的本科生。拟议的老龄化教育和研究 生物医学学科专业的大三学生和大四学生将可以获得经验。作为本次活动的一部分 R25计划、老龄化相关的介绍性教育模块（在线模块开发）和基础研究 学年期间将为亚利桑那州立大学选定的学生提供培训，而老化的研究经验将 由 AU 提供。每年，该计划将支持 10 名学生（从亚利桑那州立大学招募）。学业期间 在持续和一致的参与下，亚利桑那州立大学选定的学生将参加丰富活动 活动，包括教育；指导（研究和专业前）；科学写作研讨会；技术的， 生物伦理学和科学研讨会；以及演示培训。暑假期间，这些学生将表演 在AU进行为期10周的衰老相关研究。每年，所有学生都会在区域会议期间进行演讲 或全国科学研讨会。总之，亚利桑那州立大学和非盟的拟议项目将培训来自以下国家的学生： 代表性不足的社区并推进增加美国生物医学多样性的国家目标 科学劳动力，特别是在老龄化研究方面。