RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TRAINING

西南跨学科研究中心的研究教育和培训核心（RETC） 健康差异研究将培养下一代健康差异研究人员， 学者通过研究培训和教育，支持中心的整体使命和研究 旨在为研究和社区/外展核心，这是有助于减少和 最终消除西南边境少数民族人口之间的健康差距。的 早期职业教师和学生的培训将支持知识发展，以更好地了解 健康差异的社会、心理和生物决定因素以及文化和社会因素的交叉点 移民和文化适应等进程对健康差距的影响。RETC将实现四个目标： 1)从墨西哥裔美国人，美洲印第安人和非洲裔美国人中招收学生， 适当水平的健康差距培训和教育，总体目标是发展一个 一批年轻学者将进入更高层次的健康培训和教育， 卫生研究人员和/或专业从业人员服务目前服务不足的客户群体。2)到 利用SIRC高级教师作为高级导师，为早期职业生涯提供如下所述的指导 教师，博士后研究员，研究生和本科生来自墨西哥- 美国人、美洲印第安人和非洲裔美国人。3)提供健康差异教育， 促进文化能力的培训，以便与成员一起进行有效的卫生研究和提供服务 西南边境的少数民族。4)传播中心的研究成果， 服务不足的社区，因为它们对社区成员的健康具有内在的有用性， 作为从这些社区招募新的卫生研究人员的工具。我们建议提供一个 不同的跨学科和相互关联的教育/培训计划，以早期职业教师，博士后 研究员、研究生和本科生。该中心的高级教师将 作为高级导师参与指导本研究教育和培训。RETC董事会将 指导、协调和促进这一努力。

The Research Education and Training Core (RETC) of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center for Health Disparities Research will to develop the next generation of health disparities researchers and scholars through research training and education that supports the overall mission of the Center and study aims for both the Research and Community/Outreach Cores, which are to contribute to the reduction and ultimate elimination of health disparities among the ethnic minority populations of the Southwest Border. The training of early career faculty and students will support knowledge development to better understand the social, psychological, and biological determinants of health disparities and the intersections of cultural processes such as immigration and acculturation in affecting health disparities. RETC will achieve four aims: 1) to recruit students from Mexican-American, American Indian, and African American populations into appropriate levels of health disparities training and education, with the overall objective of developing a cohort of young scholars who will advance to higher levels of health training and education and become health researchers and/or professional practitioners serving currently underserved client populations. 2) to utilize SIRC senior faculty as Senior Mentors to provide guidance as described below, to the early career faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students from among Mexican- American, American Indian, and African American populations. 3) to provide health disparities education and training that promotes cultural competence for effective health research and service delivery with members of the noted Southwest Border's ethnic populations. 4) to disseminate the Center's research findings within the underserved communities, both for their intrinsic usefulness for the health of community members, and as a tool for recruitment of new health researchers from within those communities. We propose to deliver a distinct interdisciplinary and interconnected education/ training programs to early career faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students. The senior faculty of the Center will participate as Senior Mentors in guiding this research education and training. The director of RETC will direct, coordinate, and facilitate this effort.