Critical Research Issues in Latino Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的四年里，由主要研究者领导的西班牙裔心理健康研究人员联盟举行了关于西班牙裔心理健康问题和研究策略的年度全国会议。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赠款的发展。 该提案寻求支持一系列新的年度会议，讨论与西班牙裔人口相关的心理健康问题，这些会议将交替主题和地点。他们的目标是将有前途的年轻研究人员与高级研究人员聚集在一起，以促进新研究人员进入西班牙裔心理健康研究所需的网络和指导。 该计划将由西班牙裔和非西班牙裔导师第三高级研究人员组成的指导委员会指导。选定的“东道机构”将共同主办这些会议，并通过一个规划委员会在安排该年的方案和有关活动方面发挥主导作用。每年将通过竞争选拔14名有前途的新研究者。这些新的研究人员将与高级研究人员配对，期望在会议上提交的论文将导致同行评审的出版物。会议还将有一位“主旨发言人”Lo对会议主题进行综合概述。此外，我们将提供由专家领导的特定研究问题的特别研讨会（研究资助机会，资助写作技巧等）。会议的成果将包括同行评审出版物的数量、新研究人员提交/资助的赠款、导师-学员对的质量方面以及联网和新合作的措施。 2002年是该奖项的第一年，我们建议于9月19日和20日在新泽西普林斯顿的拿骚旅馆举行会议。本次会议的科学重点将是“情绪障碍在西班牙裔：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".