Biomedical and Behavioral Faculty Development Endowment

描述（由申请人提供）： 本申请要求国家少数民族健康和健康差异中心（NCMHD）的支持，以在佛罗里达A&M大学（FAMU）开发生物医学和行为教师发展捐赠计划。该捐赠基金的总体目标是提供资源，以加强药学和制药科学学院、艺术和科学学院（生物、化学和物理）、护理学院以及联合健康与环境科学研究所的健康专业和研究生课程。该基金将协助FAMU努力从种族和少数民族以及其他社会经济弱势群体中招募生物医学和行为研究领域以及科学劳动力其他领域的教师。已经确定了以下具体目标，以实现这一目标：1）扩大招聘工作，以吸引优秀合格的少数民族教师在卫生专业和研究生科学课程; 2）保留现有的教师在卫生专业和研究生科学课程;和3）增加大学的捐赠水平。 为了招聘最有才华的少数民族教师，必须为启动资金提供竞争性激励（即，小型实验室设备）。教师发展机会将提供给现有的教师（即，参加科学会议和新技术培训的机会）。然后，这些教师将培训研究生，努力培养未来的博士和其他卫生专业人员，他们将缩小对少数民族和社会经济弱势公民产生不利影响的健康差距之间的差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests support from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) to develop a Biomedical and Behavioral Faculty Development Endowment Program at Florida A&M University (FAMU). The overall objective of this endowment is to provide resources to enhance the health professions and graduate programs in the Colleges of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Arts and Sciences (Biology, Chemistry and Physics), Schools of Nursing and Allied Health and Environmental Sciences Institute. This endowment will assist FAMU in its effort to recruit faculty from racial and ethnic minority and other socio-economically disadvantaged groups in the fields of biomedical and behavioral research and other areas of the scientific workforce. The following specific aims have been identified to achieve this objective: 1) expand recruitment efforts to attract outstanding qualified minority faculty in the health professions and graduate science programs; 2) retain existing faculty in the health professions and graduate Science programs; and 3) increase the University's endowment level. In an effort to recruit the most talented minority faculty, competitive incentives must be provided for start-up funds (i.e., supplies, small laboratory equipment). Faculty development opportunities will be offered to existing faculty (i.e., opportunities to attend scientific meetings and training in the new technologies). These faculty members will then train the graduate students in an effort to create a critical mass of future PhDs and other health professionals who will close the gap between health disparities that adversely affect minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged citizens in the nation.