Pipeline to Graduate Education and Careers in Behavioral and Social Science Research for URM Undergraduates: Addressing HIV in Sexual and Gender Minority Communities

项目总结 性少数和性别少数(SGM)人群和社区占全国艾滋病毒病例的绝大多数 美国，黑人和拉丁裔受到的影响不成比例。不幸的是，这些社区 也经历了许多负面的社会因素。因此，下一代艾滋病毒的行为和社会 科学研究人员必须掌握影响艾滋病毒预防的复杂因素的前沿知识 并拥有所需的跨学科研究技能和经验 制定创新和有效的方法来结束艾滋病毒的流行。这项建议的NIMH研究 艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员教育指导计划(R25)名为艾滋病/艾滋病毒的学生机会 研究(飙升)。这是一个以多元理论为基础的为期两年的大学密集研究项目 密歇根州的本科生将参加教师指导的研究经验和其他 三年级和四年级的循证方案和活动。他们将继续连接到 毕业后通过我们的互动Soar网站进入他们的研究生课程，并将 为在校学生提供辅导和角色示范。招收学生将以个人为重点 来自NIH指定的在生物医学、临床、行为和社会领域代表性不足的群体 科学(URM：NOT-OD-20-031)。鉴于该方案的主题重点是以艾滋病毒为中心的行为和社会 SGM社区的科学研究优先事项，我们也将鼓励URM学生参与 鉴定为SGM(非-OD-19-139)的人。Soar的基础是扩展的社会认知职业理论 (e-SCCT)；仿照美国教育部资助的罗纳德·E·麦克奈尔邮报- 文凭成就计划；并纳入了循证研究指导的要素 计划进入辅导和循证研究导师计划进入研究。这个 该项目将设在密歇根大学研究办公室的妇女研究所 和性别，并将在四个享有盛誉的研究人员密集的密歇根大学学院和 学校--公共卫生学院、护理学院、社会工作学院和文学学院 &艺术。SOAR旨在推进2021-2025财年美国国立卫生研究院艾滋病毒和艾滋病毒战略计划的优先事项- 相关研究，NIMH艾滋病研究优先领域司，以及结束艾滋病毒流行：计划 为了美国。我们将为四批20名本科生提供为期两年的SARR课程 共有80名腾飞毕业生。具体目标如下：(1)全面开发和交付多组件 以理论为基础的艾滋病研究教育辅导计划将参与城市管理本科学生 在连续两年的教师指导的研究经验和其他循证计划中， 他们在三年级和四年级的时候都会参加活动。(2)引导URM本科生走上职业轨迹 作为艾滋病毒/艾滋病心理健康方面的独立研究人员。(三)提供以证据为基础的文化意识 教师、教职员工、研究生和本科生作为同行导师的导师培训。

PROJECT SUMMARY Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people and communities account for the vast majority of HIV cases in the United States, with Black and Latinx people being disproportionately affected. Unfortunately these communities also experience a host of negative societal factors. Therefore, the next generation of HIV behavioral and social science researchers must have cutting edge knowledge of the complex factors that influence HIV prevention and care within SGM communities, and possess the interdisciplinary research skills and experiences needed to develop innovative and effective approaches to ending the HIV epidemic. This proposed NIMH Research Education Mentoring Program for HIV/AIDS Researchers (R25) is named Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR). It is a multi-component theory-based 2-year long research-intensive program for University of Michigan undergraduate students who will participate in faculty mentored research experiences and other evidence-based programs and activities during their junior and senior years. They will remain connected to SOAR after graduation and into their graduate programs through our interactive SOAR website, and will provide mentoring and role-modeling for current students. Recruitment of students will focus on individuals from NIH-designated groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences (URM: NOT-OD-20-031). Given the program's thematic focus on HIV-centered behavioral and social science research priorities within SGM communities, we will also encourage participation from URM students who identify as SGM (NOT-OD-19-139). SOAR is grounded in the expanded Social Cognitive Career Theory (e-SCCT); patterned after the evidence-based U.S. Department of Education funded Ronald E. McNair Post- baccalaureate Achievement Program; and incorporates elements of the evidence-based research mentoring program Entering Mentoring and the evidence-based research mentee program Entering Research. The program will be located in the University of Michigan Office of Research's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and be a collective effort across four prestigious and researcher-intensive UM Colleges and Schools—School of Public Health; School of Nursing; School of Social Work; and College of Literature Science & the Arts. SOAR was designed to advance the priorities in FY 2021–2025 NIH Strategic Plan for HIV and HIV- Related Research, the NIMH Division of AIDS Research Priority Areas, and Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America. We will provide the two-year SOAR program to four cohorts of 20 undergraduate students for a total of 80 SOAR graduates. Specific Aims are as follows: (1) To fully develop and deliver a multi-component theory-based HIV research education mentoring program for URM undergraduate students who will participate in two consecutive years of faculty-mentored research experiences and other evidence-based programs and activities during their junior and senior years. (2) To guide URM undergraduate students into career trajectories as independent researchers in the mental health of HIV/AIDS. (3) To provide evidence-based culturally aware mentor training for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students as peer mentors themselves.