The University of Iowa MHIRT Program

项目描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的具体目的是：(1)鼓励10名来自健康差异人群的本科、研究生和卫生专业学生从事基础科学、生物医学、临床和行为健康研究领域的职业；(2)扩大对这些学生的培训，使其涵盖健康差异人群，包括国际健康问题；(3)协助这些学生参与与美国和国际教师的合作研究计划；(4)寻求创新办法，解决与缩小保健差距有关的问题和/或障碍。利用爱荷华大学少数民族学生发展计划（爱荷华大学生物科学优势计划）和大学国际农村与环境健康中心的综合资源，我们将为符合条件的学生提供为期四年的每年夏季为期10周的短期国际研究培训机会。爱荷华州生物科学优势计划将是一个支线计划，以确定合格的本科生。8名受训者将是本科生，2名将是研究生或专业学生，所有受训者都将来自基础科学、生物医学、临床或行为研究职业领域中代表性不足的人群。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims of this project are to: (1) Encourage ten undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who are from health disparities populations to pursue careers in basic science, biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research fields; (2) Broaden the training of these students from health disparities populations to encompass international health issues; (3) Assist these students to participate in collaborative research initiatives with U.S. and international faculty; and, (4) Seek innovative approaches to address problems and/or hindrances associated with closing health disparities gaps. Using the combined resources of the University of Iowa's Initiative for Minority Student Development Program (Iowa Biosciences Advantage Program) and the University's Center for International Rural and Environmental Health we will offer a program of 10-week short-term international research training opportunities for qualified eligible students each summer for four years. The Iowa Biosciences Advantage Program will be a feeder program to identify eligible undergraduate students. Eight trainees will be undergraduate students and two will be graduate or professional students and all will be from populations that are underrepresented in the basic sciences, biomedical, clinical or behavioral research career fields. MHIRT trainees will be offered research training opportunities at foreign institutions in Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Romania where we have collaborative relationships that have been developed over the last nine years through a Fogarty International Center training and research grant. These countries in Central/Eastern Europe present excellent opportunities to learn about issues related to health disparities populations. We will use new capabilities in Information and Communications Technology to assist in matching, monitoring, and evaluating trainees' international research training experiences in these countries. In this proposed program, MHIRT training is viewed as part of a comprehensive program of nurturing and developing individuals from health disparities populations to become productive biomedical and behavioral health researchers.