THE MICHIGAN BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE PROGRAM

描述(由申请人提供)：许多重要的健康问题在少数民族中不成比例地发生，学术公共卫生在解决种族健康差距方面发挥着重要作用。不幸的是，在公共卫生学院的博士项目中，少数民族学生的比例偏低。因此，密歇根大学公共卫生学院(UMSPH)，为了增加URM(非洲裔、拉丁裔和美国印第安人)学生准备竞争公共卫生博士培训的人才库，正在提交这份申请，以回应NIH桥博士学位的宣布。具体来说，UMSPH将与东密歇根大学、莫尔豪斯医学院和德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校的硕士项目建立合作伙伴关系。拟议的“密歇根博士之桥计划”将每年资助6名学生(每名合伙人两名)(两年的学费和工资)，到该计划的第二年达到12名学生的稳定状态。布里奇斯大学的学生将在学年期间被任命为各自院校的研究助理。学生还将参加布里奇斯综合研讨会(使用视频讲座和基于网络的项目“工作工具”的组合)，在那里他们将被介绍公共卫生的五个核心领域和重要的实质性公共卫生问题，以及对毕业生职业发展的建议。在第一年和第二年的硕士培训期间，布里奇斯的学生将在安娜堡花两个月的时间与UMSPH的教职员工一起进行研究，并在大学间政治和社会研究联盟参加生物统计学的高级课程。在密歇根大学暑期结束时，学生们将被送到塔斯基吉大学国家研究和医疗保健生物伦理学中心，进行为期一周的关于负责任研究行为的密集系列讲座。目标是每年至少招收33%的布里奇斯学生(每年六人中的两人)参加UMSPH的博士生项目。密歇根州大学研究生院将保证录取密歇根大学研究生院五个博士项目之一的学生五年的资金(学费、工资和医疗福利)，以支持他们攻读博士学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Many important health problems occur disproportionately among ethnic minorities and academic public health has an important role to play in addressing ethnic health disparities. Unfortunately, ethnic minority students are underrepresented in doctoral programs in schools of public health. Therefore, the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH), in order to increase the pool of URM (African American, Latino, and American Indian) students ready to compete for doctoral training in Public Health, is submitting this application in response to the NIH Bridges to the Doctoral Degree announcement. Specifically, the UMSPH will establish partnerships with Master's programs from Eastern Michigan University, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. The proposed "Michigan Bridge to the Doctorate Program" will support six (two per partner) students each year (tuition and wages for two years) reaching a steady state of twelve students by the second year of the program. Bridges students will be appointed as research assistants at their respective institutions during the academic year. Students will also participate in the Bridges Integrative Seminar (using a combination of video-taped lectures and a web-based program, "Worktools") where they will be introduced to the five core areas of Public Health and important substantive public health issues as well as advice on graduate career development. During the summer between the first and second year of masters training Bridges students will spend two months in Ann Arbor conducting research with UMSPH faculty and taking advanced courses in biostatistics at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. At the end of the Michigan summer, students will be sent to the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care for an intensive one-week series of lectures on the conduct of responsible research. The objective is to enroll at least 33% (two of six each year) of the Bridges students in PhD programs at the UMSPH each year. Bridges students who matriculate to one of the five doctoral programs located in the UMSPH will be guaranteed five years of funding (tuition, salary, and health benefits) by Michigan's Graduate School to support work toward the PhD.