International Exchange Program for Minority Students

描述（由申请人提供）：西奈山医学院国际卫生部建议为少数民族学生创建一个新的国际交流计划。该计划的目标是培养少数民族学生对科学和医学的兴趣，提高他们的研究能力，以验证他们独特的文化和语言能力。 将通过以下具体目标实现这一目标：（1）在健康差距研究的基本概念方面，在本科、硕士和博士前一级挑选、培训和培养一批代表性不足的少数民族学生，以激励他们成为解决这一问题的重要参与者;（2）建立拉丁美洲少数群体受训人员和研究导师之间的合作机制，这种机制将是互利的，将证实受训人员的潜力，并将提高研究健康差异的能力。 要做到这一点，少数民族学生将与墨西哥，巴西和智利的导师配对，这些导师通过参加现有的国际培训计划，在西奈山医学院接受了公共卫生研究方法的培训。新的国际交流方案将完全符合主要研究员目前指导的资助赠款组合，为拉丁美洲少数民族受训人员和研究人员之间的双向合作提供一个机制。少数民族学生国际交流计划将强调在支持多样性的气氛中进行合作和科学文化知识的交流。很可能，这种设计将鼓励所有参与者获得更多的理解，将适用于健康差异研究的长期职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Division of International Health of Mount Sinai School of Medicine proposes to create a new International Exchange Program for Minority Students. The goal of the program is to nurture minority students' interests in science and medicine by enhancing their research capacity in a way that validates their unique cultural and linguistic abilities. The goal will be achieved through the following specific aims: 1) To select, train and nurture a cadre of underrepresented minority students at the undergraduate, masters and predoctoral levels in basic concepts of health disparities research in order to motivate them to become important participants in its solution; 2) To establish a mechanism for collaboration between minority trainees and research mentors in Latin America that will be mutually beneficial, will validate the trainees' potential, and will increase capacity for research in health disparities. To do this, minority students will be paired with mentors in Mexico, Brazil and Chile who have themselves been trained in public health research methods at Mount Sinai School of Medicine through their participation in an existing international training program. The new International Exchange Program will fit perfectly within the portfolio of funded grants that the Principal Investigator currently directs by providing a mechanism for bidirectional collaboration between minority trainees and investigators in Latin America. The International Exchange Program for Minority Students will emphasize collaboration and the exchange of scientific and cultural knowledge in an atmosphere of support for diversity. It is likely that this design will encourage all participants to gain increased understanding that will be applied to long careers in health disparities research.