Community-Based HIV Education Research Program for Diverse Scholars

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的“基于社区的不同种族和民族的艾滋病毒教育研究计划”旨在解决在基于社区的参与式艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究领域中未被充分代表的种族和少数民族（REM）学者的进步所面临的挑战和障碍。将招募并保留五组四名REM学者，每组四名学者均为高级博士后或初级教师水平，目标是男女人数相等（总人数=20）。认识到高质量的指导和获得实践经验在为新研究者，特别是那些来自代表性不足的REM群体的研究者设定生产力和成功轨迹方面的重要性，我们将提供为期六周的密集暑期学院，提供研究教育课程，促进入学学者的专业发展；开发并推出一种指导类型，解决REM学者在社区艾滋病毒研究中前进的结构性和个人障碍；并评估整体教育计划对学者、导师及其各自组织的影响和功效。该项目将由一个跨学科合作团队提供，该团队由公共卫生、护理、人类学、社会学和社会工作以及黑人研究生学院和大学历史委员会、少数民族组织（密歇根大学种族、文化和健康研究中心）和亨特学院社区艾滋病毒/艾滋病项目组成。所有REM学者将：连续两个夏天参加密集的暑期课程，包括跨学科和应用学习经验；获得持续的指导和接触更大的REM HIV科学家网络的机会；支持撰写合作艾滋病提案，并获得试点项目的资金，以解决有色人种社区中存在的几个艾滋病不平等现象之一。这项建议的意义在于，它提供了理论驱动的研究教育，独特地强调了影响有色人种社区内艾滋病毒不平等的社会决定因素和结构性因素；它是在一种“合作文化”的基础上做到这一点的，这种文化包括在研究和实践中公平地与代表性不足的社区合作，并与多样性丰富的大学和研究机构建立互利的转诊和研究教育伙伴关系。将传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）作为招聘和科学咨询结构的一部分是该提案的创新之一，与NIMH资助的其他R25项目的导师和REM研究人员建立联系也是如此。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed "Community-Based HIV Education Research Program for Diverse Racial and Ethnic Groups" addresses the documented challenges and barriers to the advancement of underrepresented race and ethnic minority (REM) scholars in the field of community-based participatory HIV/AIDS research. Five cohorts of four REM scholars, each at the advanced post-doctoral or junior faculty level, will be recruited and retained, with a targeted goal of equal numbers of women and men (total N=20). Recognizing the importance of quality mentorship and access to practical experience in setting the trajectory for productivity and success of new investigators, and especially those from underrepresented REM groups, we will provide an intensive six week Summer Institute to deliver a research education curriculum and advance the professional development of enrolled scholars; develop and roll out a mentoring typology that addresses structural and individual barriers to advancement of REM scholars in community-based HIV research; and evaluate the effect and efficacy of the overall education program on scholars, mentors, and their respective organizations. The program will be delivered by an interdisciplinary collaborative team comprised of Public Health, Nursing, Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work and the Historical Council of Black Graduate Colleges and Universities, minority organizations (University of Michigan's Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health) and Hunter College Community-Based HIV/AIDS Program. All REM scholars will: participate in an intensive summer program for two consecutive summers that includes interdisciplinary and applied learning experiences; receive sustained mentorship and access to a larger network of REM HIV scientists; be supported to write collaborative HIV proposals and receive funding for pilot projects that address one of the several HIV inequities experienced within communities of color. The significance of this proposal is that it provides theory-driven research education with a unique emphasis on the social determinants and structural factors influencing HIV inequities within communities of color; and it does so within a "culture of collaboration" that extends from working equitably with underrepresented communities in research and practice and builds mutually beneficial referral and research education partnerships with diversity-rich universities and research organizations. The integration of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as part of the recruitment and scientific advisory structure is one of the innovations of this proposal as is the linkage with mentors and REM researchers from other NIMH funded R25 programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposal addresses two key public health issues; the spiraling increase spread of HIV/AIDS within communities of color and the dearth of racial and minority researcher conducting HIV/AIDS research. Through the recruitment and intensive summer training of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority researchers in the area of HIV/AIDS and community based research, the disparate HIV/AIDS related prevention, access, and treatment within communities of color has the potential to be addressed.