International Exchange Program for Minority Students

描述(由申请人提供)：西奈山医学院国际卫生系建议为少数民族学生设立一个新的国际交流项目。该项目的目标是通过提高少数民族学生的研究能力来培养他们对科学和医学的兴趣，以验证他们独特的文化和语言能力。 将通过下列具体目标来实现这一目标：1)在本科生、硕士和博士后阶段挑选、培训和培养一批人数偏少的少数族裔学生，使他们能够成为解决健康差距问题的重要参与者；2)在拉丁美洲建立一个少数族裔受训者和研究导师之间的合作机制，该机制将互惠互利，将验证受训者的潜力，并将提高他们研究健康差异的能力。 为此，少数族裔学生将与墨西哥、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项目，在西奈山医学院接受过公共卫生研究方法的培训。新的国际交流计划将完全符合首席调查员目前指导的资助资助组合，为拉丁美洲少数族裔受训者和调查人员之间的双向合作提供了一种机制。少数民族学生国际交流计划将在支持多样性的氛围中强调合作和科学文化知识的交流。这种设计很可能会鼓励所有参与者获得更多的理解，这将应用于长期的健康差异研究职业生涯。

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.