Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers

本申请旨在建立一个R25研究教育计划， 未来ELSI研究人员的多样性”，其长期目标是帮助 使ELSI的研究人员多样化，从而丰富ELSI的奖学金。我们的节目 将利用区域多样性建立一个管道，识别和招募有前途的人 在ELSI和生物伦理学中，来自历史上代表性不足的人口的本科生。 我们的具体目标是：1）招收本科生从不同的， 代表性不足的群体和背景，探索和进行研究， 基因组学和社会研究（方法，技能，历史和内容）; 2）指导和 支持跨学科受训人员的小群体，使他们有机会在 基因组学和社会研究，并激发他们追求这样一个职业的兴趣， 将其纳入地方、地区和国家生物伦理学网络; 3） 加强生物伦理学学者和各单位之间的关系， 巴尔的摩-DC地区的大学，创建和维持一个区域管道， 来自不同的，代表性不足的群体和背景的学生进入 基因组学和社会研究，以及支持 他们随着时间的推移。 通过R25，我们的计划教师和工作人员将创建一个为期15个月的培训， 导师的经验，其切入点将是一个新的基因组学和社会 约翰霍普金斯多样性暑期实习计划（SIP）的一个部门，提供一个 为期10周的ELSI密集研究经验。BI将能够提供多个 研究经验，通过个别教师的研究，并通过我们的CEER， 传染病、基因组学与社会（Bridging Infectious Disease，Genomics & Society）在校园内 暑期课程，学生将继续他们的连接到霍普金斯计划 在整个学年中，共同领导活动的规划（例如，研讨会，小组讨论， 外展活动）与他们在基因组学和社会在他们的家的兴趣 机构，并返回霍普金斯和伯曼研究所一周以下 夏季进行额外培训，并与下一批学员联系。R25 将在五年内每年资助五名学员。每年将增加一名受训人员， 由马里兰州巴尔的摩县大学资助，我们的区域合作伙伴之一。

This application seeks to establish an R25 Research Education Program, “Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers,” with the long-term objective of helping to diversify the pool of ELSI researchers and thus enrich ELSI scholarship. Our program would draw on regional diversity to build a pipeline that identifies and recruits promising undergraduates from populations historically underrepresented in ELSI and bioethics. Our specific aims are: 1) To recruit undergraduate students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds to explore and conduct research in genomics and society studies (methods, skills, history, and content); 2) To mentor and support small cohorts of interdisciplinary trainees, exposing them to career options in genomics and society studies and sparking their interest in pursuing such a career, and integrating them into local, regional, and national bioethics networks; and, 3) To nurture and strengthen relationships between and among bioethics scholars and units at universities in the Baltimore-DC area, creating and sustaining a regional pipeline for the entry of students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds into genomics and society studies, and the institutional structures and networks to support them over time. Through the R25, our program faculty and staff will create a 15-month training and mentorship experience, the entry point of which will be a new Genomics and Society division of the Johns Hopkins Diversity Summer Internship Program (SIP), offering an intensive 10-week ELSI research experience. The BI will be able to offer multiple research experiences through individual faculty research and through our CEER, Bridging Infectious Disease, Genomics & Society (BRIDGES). Following the on-campus summer program, students will continue their connection to the Hopkins Program throughout the academic year, co-lead the planning of an activity (e.g., seminar, panel, outreach event) related to their interests in Genomics and Society at their home institution, and return to Hopkins and the Berman Institute for one week the following summer for additional training and connection with the next cohort of trainees. The R25 will fund five trainees per year for five years. An additional trainee each year will be funded by University of Maryland Baltimore County, one of our regional partners.