Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个应用程序继续以前资助的博士培训计划，促进公共卫生培训的种族多样性。该计划的重点是从人口群体的学生传统上代表性不足（非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人，美洲印第安人）在公共卫生领域。培训计划将继续设在学校现在完善的种族，文化和健康研究中心（CRECH）。这个少数民族培训计划的主要目的是增加和保持谁申请，入学，并成功完成博士研究在密歇根大学公共卫生学院的代表性不足的学生的数量。为了巩固和扩大第一个供资期的成功，该方案以两种方式扩大。首先，该计划包括一个新的学生发展计划，重点是硕士生。第二，该计划增加了两个部门（环境健康科学和生物统计）的三个部门（流行病学，健康行为和健康教育，健康管理和政策），构成了该计划的第一个供资周期。此外，该计划现在将采取更明确的实质性重点。也就是说，除了被指定的代表性不足的群体的成员，有资格参加这个计划的学生还必须表现出在种族和民族健康差异的研究明确的兴趣。这种突出的实质性重点是合理的，因为国家越来越强调需要公共卫生研究科学家研究种族和民族健康差异，因为如此多的健康问题不成比例地落在种族和民族少数群体身上。在可衡量的目标方面，该计划将：1）每年支持10名博士生。博士生将获得两年的培训补助金，然后由拉克姆研究生院提供三年的资助，从而产生五年的资助计划; 2）每年支持三名新的硕士生，支持他们两年，从而在新资助周期的第二年稳定招收六名硕士生。所有支持的学生，无论是硕士和博士，将被任命为支付（工资，小时工资）研究生研究助理。所有学生将与负责就业，实践指导和质量指导的教师相匹配。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the previously funded doctoral training program, Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training. This program focuses on students from population groups traditionally underrepresented (African American, Latino, American Indian) in the field of public health. The training program will continue to be located in the School's now well-established Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH). The main purpose of this minority training program is to increase and maintain the number of under-represented students who apply, enroll, and successfully complete doctoral studies at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. In order to build on and expand the success of the first funding period, the program is expanded in two ways. First, the program includes a new student development plan focused on master's students. Second, the program adds two departments (Environmental Health Sciences and Biostatistics) to the three departments (Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Management and Policy) that comprised the program's first funding cycle. In addition, the program will now take a much more explicit substantive focus. That is, in addition to being members of the designated under-represented groups, students eligible for this program must also demonstrate an explicit interest in the study of racial and ethnic health disparities. This sharpened substantive focus is justified on the basis of the Nation's increasing emphasis on the need for public health research scientists working on racial and ethnic health disparities, and because so many health problems fall disproportionately on racial and ethnic minority groups. In terms of measurable objectives, the program will: 1) support ten doctoral students each year. Doctoral students will be supported on the training grant for two years and then be offered three years of funding by the Rackham Graduate School, thereby resulting in a five-year funding package; 2) support three new master's students each year, supporting them for two years, resulting in a steady enrollment of six master's students by year two of the new funding cycle. All supported students, both master's and doctoral, will be appointed as paid (salary, hourly wages) graduate research assistants. All students will be matched with faculty who will be responsible for employment, hands-on instruction, and quality mentoring.