Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的四年里，由首席调查员领导的西班牙裔精神健康研究联盟每年举行关于拉美裔精神健康问题和研究战略的全国会议。这些会议促进了新的研究合作，并促进了这一领域新的赠款申请和资助的发展。 这项提议寻求对与拉美裔人口有关的精神健康问题的新的一系列年度会议的支持，这些会议将改变主题和地点。他们的目标是将有前途的年轻调查人员与资深调查人员聚集在一起，努力促进必要的网络和指导，以促进新的调查人员进入拉美裔精神健康研究。 该计划将由一个由西班牙裔和非西班牙裔导师组成的指导委员会指导，第三名高级研究人员。选定的“主办机构”将共同赞助这些会议，并通过一个规划委员会在组织该年的计划和相关活动方面发挥主导作用。每年将以竞争性方式选拔十四(14)名有前途的新调查人员。这些新的调查人员将与高级调查人员配对，期望在会议上提交的文件将导致同行审查的出版物。会议还将有一位“主旨演讲人”，就会议主题提供综合概述。此外，我们还将就具体研究问题(研究拨款机会、拨款撰写技巧等)举办由专家领导的专题研讨会。会议的成果将包括同行评议出版物的数量、新调查人员提交/资助的赠款、导师-被辅导者对的质量问题以及联网和新合作的措施。 对于2002年，也就是该奖项的第一年，我们建议于9月19日和20日在新泽西州普林斯顿的拿骚酒店举行会议。本次会议的科学焦点将是“拉美裔美国人的情绪障碍：流行病学、生物学和治疗方面”。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the last four years, a consortium of Hispanic Mental Health researchers led by the principal investigator held annual national conferences on Hispanic Mental Health issues and research strategies. These conferences stimulated new research collaborations and contributed to the development of new grant applications and funded grants in this area. This proposal seeks support for a new series of yearly conferences on Mental Health issues relevant to Hispanic populations that will alternate theme and location. They aim to bring together promising young investigators with senior investigators in an effort to stimulate the networking and mentoring necessary to promote the entry of new investigators into Hispanic Mental Health research. The program will be guided by a steering committee composed of Hispanic and non-Hispanic mentors 3rd senior researchers. Selected "host institutions" will co-sponsor the conferences and take a leading role in structuring the program and related activities for that year by means of a planning committee. Fourteen (14) promising new investigators will be competitively selected each year. These new investigators will be paired with senior investigators with the expectation that papers presented at the meeting will result in peer-reviewed publications. The conferences will also feature a "keynote speaker" Lo provide an integrative overview on the theme of the meeting. In addition, we will offer special workshops led by experts on specific research issues (research grant opportunities, grant writing skills, etc). Outcomes of the conference will include number of peer reviewed publications, grants submitted/funded by the new investigators, quality aspects of mentor-mentee pairs and measures of networking and new collaborations. For 2002, the first year of the award, we propose to hold the conference September on 19 and 20 at the Nassau Inn in Princeton, New Jersey. The scientific focus of this conference will be "Mood Disorders in Hispanics: Epidemiology, Biology and Therapeutic Aspects".