Training in Minority Health and Health Disparities in International Venues

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了一个密集的暑期培训计划，本科生在少数民族健康和健康差异的研究在国际环境。我们将招收来自佛罗里达A&M大学（FAMU），一个历史上的黑人大学，加州大学，圣地亚哥（UCSD），也从四个州立大学的学生人口是由许多弱势学生谁通常不会有机会在国外场地参加研究。将与以下机构开展这种培训合作：杰克逊州立大学，这也是一所历史上的黑人学院;关岛大学，其中太平洋岛民占很大比例;与蒙大拿州立大学有联系的美洲土著部落学院;以及韦恩州立大学，其中有大量城市少数民族人口。在他们的选择，受训人员将参加为期两周的教学课程的校园国际之家在加州大学圣地亚哥分校。学生将获得关于健康差距，图书馆资源，科学方法和研究设计，跨文化医学，负责任的研究行为，在研究中使用人类受试者，统计设计和解释，以及研究生教育和解决健康差距和少数民族健康的职业道路等问题的讲座。在这些讲座之后，学生将离开国外实验室进行为期10周的假设检验和研究。我们已经确定了少数民族健康和健康差距的国际研究项目正在由教师与外国合作者谁热情支持，并有一个跟踪记录，潜在的未来同事的成功指导。受训人员将有机会参加厄瓜多尔农村环境卫生研究、秘鲁或埃及传染病发生情况研究、台湾干细胞研究、捷克共和国心血管疾病研究和墨西哥性传播疾病和药物滥用研究。这些项目涉及来自不同学科的学者，包括社会学，心理学，人类学，流行病学，基础科学和医学。在实验室休假完成后，学生将被要求在同行论坛上，在全国会议上，并在同行评审的科学文献中介绍他们的研究。最后，我们有一个跟踪系统，以跟踪该计划及其学员在随后的学术生涯中的成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose an intensive summer training program for undergraduate students in research on Minority Health and Health Disparities in an international setting. We will recruit students from Florida A&M University (FAMU), a historically Black college, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and also from four state universities whose student population is composed of many disadvantaged students who would normally not have an opportunity to participate in research in a foreign venue. This training collaboration will be conducted with Jackson State University (JSU), also an historically Black college; the University of Guam (UG) that has a large percentage of Pacific Islanders; the Native American tribal colleges associated with Montana State University (MSU); and Wayne State University that has a large urban, minority population. Following their selection, the trainees will participate in a two-week didactic course on the campus of the International House at UCSD. Students will receive talks on issues in health disparity, library resources, scientific methodologies and research design, cross-cultural medicine, the responsible conduct of research, the use of human subjects in research, statistical design and interpretation, and graduate education and career paths that address health disparities and minority health. Following these lectures, students will depart for 10 weeks of hypothesis testing and research in the foreign laboratories. We have identified international research projects in minority health and health disparities being conducted by faculty with foreign collaborators who enthusiastically support, and have a track record of, successful mentorship of potential future colleagues. Trainees will have an opportunity to participate in studies in environmental health in rural Ecuador, infectious disease occurrence in either Peru or Egypt, stem cell research in Taiwan, cardiovascular diseases in the Czech Republic, and sexually transmitted diseases and drug abuse in Mexico. These projects involve scholars from various disciplines including sociology, psychology, anthropology, epidemiology, the basic sciences, and medicine. Following completion of the laboratory sabbatical, students will be expected to present their research at a forum of peers, at a national meeting, and in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Finally, we have in place a tracking system to follow the success of this program and its trainees over the course of their subsequent academic careers.