MINORITY TRAINEE RESEARCH FORUM

少数族裔实习生研究论坛

• 批准号: 7334604
• 负责人: Moses Lee Williams
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-01 至 2008-09-09
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7334604
• 关键词: Academia; Achievement; Address; African American; Alaska Native; American; Award; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Categories; Childhood; Commit; Communication; Condition; Country; Diabetes Mellitus; Diagnosis; Disease; Distance Learning; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Status; Electronics; Employment; Ensure; Esapent; Ethnic group; Fellowship; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Government; Grant; Hawaiian population; Health; Health Status; High Prevalence; Hispanic Americans; Industry; Infant Mortality; Institutes; Institution; Longevity; Minority; Native Americans; Neoplasms; Numbers; Oral; Outcome; Pacific Island Americans; Peer Group; Pharmacologic Substance; Population; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Quality of life; Rate; Recruitment Activity; Registries; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Schools; Scientist; Site; Strategic Planning; Students; Support System; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Update; Vaccination; Vocational Guidance; abstracting; base; career; caucasian American; college; day; design; experience; health disparity; high school; improved; medical schools; minority trainee; peer; posters; programs; racial and ethnic; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans, Native- Hawaiians, Alaska-Natives, and Pacific-Islanders suffer poorer health than White Americans. Differences in health status across racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. have been described for a wide array of diseases, conditions and outcomes. The aforementioned minority populations experience disproportionately higher infant mortality, lower rates of childhood vaccination, later diagnosis of treatable neoplasm, a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and shorter life spans than the White population. The gap in disease rates has been documented for years, and has persisted. This health disparities picture, generally acknowledged as the basis for the country's low health status ranking among industrial nations, prompted President Clinton in 1998 to launch the Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Initiative, which set a national goal of eliminating these disparities by 2010. In the time period since President Clinton launched the health disparities initiative, each NIH Institute/Center has developed a strategic plan to improve the health and quality of life for underrepresented minority Americans through public education, new training programs to produce minority researchers and new funding for research on diseases impacting health disparities populations within each Institute's statutory mandate. Central to the NIH's overall strategic plan, are initiatives to (1) increase the numbers of underrepresented students entering the biomedical pipeline, and (2) identify, showcase, nurture and train underrepresented minorities already in the biomedical pipeline. In order to increase the number of scientists addressing the health disparities issue, the Minority Trainee Research Forum (MTRF) was developed as a longitudinal vehicle to identify, showcase, nurture and offer further training opportunities to underrepresented minorities in the biomedical pipeline. This national invitational scientific meeting allows the serious trainees at every level of the pipeline to orally present their research, stand in the poster session, and receive an award for their research achievements. Each year, a national abstract competition generates 72 winners in six categories: 12 high school trainees, 12 college trainees, 12 M.D. trainees, 12 M.D./Ph.D. trainees, 12 Ph.D. trainees and 12 postdoctoral fellows. The grant has permitted the establishment of a national registry of minority trainees in the pipeline which academia, industry and the NIH can draw on to stock initiatives designed to eliminate health disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民、夏威夷原住民、阿拉斯加原住民和太平洋岛民的健康状况比白色美国人差。美国种族和族裔群体之间的健康状况差异已被描述为各种疾病，病症和结果。与白色人口相比，上述少数民族人口的婴儿死亡率高得不成比例，儿童疫苗接种率低，可治疗的肿瘤诊断较晚，心血管疾病和糖尿病发病率较高，寿命较短。患病率的差距已经记录多年，并一直持续下去。这一健康差距状况被普遍认为是美国在工业化国家中健康状况排名较低的基础，促使克林顿总统于1998年发起了种族和民族健康差距倡议，该倡议设定了到2010年消除这些差距的国家目标。自克林顿总统发起健康差距倡议以来，每个国家卫生研究所/中心都制定了一项战略计划，通过公共教育、培养少数民族研究人员的新培训计划以及在每个研究所的法定任务范围内为影响健康差距人口的疾病研究提供新的资金，改善代表性不足的少数民族美国人的健康和生活质量。NIH整体战略计划的核心是采取措施（1）增加进入生物医学管道的代表性不足的学生人数，以及（2）识别，展示，培养和培训已经在生物医学管道中代表性不足的少数民族。 为了增加解决健康差距问题的科学家人数，设立了少数群体受训人员研究论坛，作为一个纵向工具，以查明、展示、培养和提供进一步培训机会，使少数群体在生物医学方面的代表性不足。这个国家邀请科学会议允许在管道的每一个级别的严重学员口头介绍他们的研究，站在海报会议，并获得他们的研究成果奖。每年，一个全国性的抽象竞赛产生60个类别的72名获奖者：12名高中实习生，12名大学实习生，12名医学博士。受训人员，12个医学博士/博士12名博士实习生和12名博士后研究员。这笔赠款使得能够建立一个少数民族受训人员国家登记册，供学术界、工业界和国家卫生研究所利用，以储存旨在消除健康差距的倡议。