Minority Pre-doctoral Education to Reduce Disparities

少数民族博士前教育缩小差距

• 批准号: 7119607
• 负责人: MATTHEW W. KREUTER
• 金额: $ 31.53万
• 依托单位: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7119607
• 关键词: African American; cancer prevention; clinical research; culture; educational resource design /development; handbook; health care policy; health disparity; health education; health science profession; health science research potential; health science research support; information dissemination; postgraduate education; public health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NCI's Plans and Priorities for Cancer Research identifies training of new cancer scientists as one of its "most important challenges," and emphasizes the need for increased involvement of racial and ethnic minorities in cancer research careers. Increasing minority participation in research careers has also been a major priority in public health, an interdisciplinary field whose contributions to cancer prevention and control have been significant, and largely unique. Because a more diverse public health work force can better understand and serve the needs of diverse communities, well-trained minority public health researchers are needed to ensure improvements are made in eliminating health and cancer disparities. We propose a two-year pre-doctoral education program to prepare African American graduate students in public health to help eliminate cancer disparities through cancer prevention and control research. The program consists of five main elements. For students: (1) special coursework in understanding and eliminating cancer disparities; (2) mentored experiential learning in cancer prevention and control research and policy; (3) mentored independent research; and, (4) professional network-building with an interdisciplinary group of African American scholars from a national pool of researchers whose work addresses cancer and/or disparities. For faculty: (5) skill building in cross-cultural mentoring. To enhance future adoption of the program by other institutions, these program components will be designed for dissemination and the proposal identifies specific products and mechanisms for distribution. The School of Public Health and Graduate School at Saint Louis University are strongly committed to this program, and have pledged 85% tuition scholarships for students involved.

NCI的癌症研究计划和优先事项将新癌症科学家的培训确定为“最重要的挑战”之一，并强调需要增加少数种族和少数民族参与癌症研究事业。 增加少数民族参与研究事业也一直是公共卫生的一个主要优先事项，这是一个跨学科领域，对癌症预防和控制的贡献是显著的，而且在很大程度上是独特的。 由于更多样化的公共卫生工作队伍可以更好地了解和服务于不同社区的需求，因此需要训练有素的少数民族公共卫生研究人员，以确保在消除健康和癌症差异方面取得进展。 我们提出了一个为期两年的博士前教育计划，以准备非洲裔美国研究生在公共卫生，以帮助消除癌症的差距，通过癌症预防和控制研究。 该方案包括五个主要内容。 对于学生：（1）理解和消除癌症差异的特殊课程;（2）指导癌症预防和控制研究和政策的体验式学习;（3）指导独立研究;以及（4）与来自国家研究人员库的非裔美国学者的跨学科小组建立专业网络，其工作涉及癌症和/或差异。 教师：（5）跨文化指导的技能建设。 为了促进其他机构将来采用该方案，将设计这些方案组成部分以供传播，该提案确定了具体的产品和分发机制。 公共卫生学院和研究生院在圣刘易斯大学坚定地致力于这一计划，并已承诺85%的学费奖学金的学生参与。