Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life through Health Related STEM Discipl

获得选择：女孩通过健康相关的 STEM 学科研究现实生活

• 批准号: 8259975
• 负责人: Sally Kay Roberts
• 金额: $ 34.4万
• 依托单位: WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-10 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8259975
• 关键词: Academy; Admission activity; African American; Area; Attention; Color; Disadvantaged; Discipline; Discrimination; Dose; Environment; Faculty; Future; Generations; Health; Health Occupations; Health Professional; Health Services Accessibility; Healthcare Systems; Intervention; Knowledge; Life; Mathematics; Mentors; Minority Groups; Parents; Pathway interactions; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Professional Organizations; Public Health; Qualifying; Risk; Route; Schools; Science; Social support; Students; Support System; Technology; Underserved Population; Universities; Woman; Work; career; catalyst; college; experience; fighting; girls; health disparity; high school; innovation; member; metropolitan; peer; programs; racial and ethnic; role model; skills; social; social group; social networking website

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life through Health related STEM Disciplines Significance. Health care system received greater attention. Efforts to reduce health disparities continue to be surrounded with controversy. While political battles continue to be fought at the highest levels, members of disadvantaged social groups such as the poor, racial/ethnic minorities, women, or other groups who have persistently experienced social disadvantage or discrimination continue to experience substandard health and/or greater health risks than more advantaged social groups. The representation of diverse populations in health related STEM disciplines, health professions, and ability to eliminate disparities in the quality and availability of health care for underserved populations. Objective and Approach. Our proposed intervention focuses specifically on high school girls, and in particular on girls of color. Our long-term objective is to increase the number of girls entering college from the Detroit Metropolitan area with both the capacity and the intent to pursue STEM related health disciplines and to contribute to our national understanding of how to remedy and mitigate the barriers faced by underrepresented students. To achieve this objective we will employ Summer Academies, Academic Year Cafis, for girls and parents and Continuous Mentoring Support through social networking sites and current technology to accomplish the following aims; 1) Increase and Sustain Engagement of High School Girls in health related STEM disciplines; 2) Build Capacity to Pursue STEM Disciplines by increasing high Ao-dge of the personal and academic skills necessary for college admission in STEM related health fields 3) Provide Continuity throughout High School by connecting high school girls to role models and mentors in health related STEM disciplines. Innovation. The proposed intervention is creative and innovative for several reasons. First and foremost, Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life through Health related STEM Disciplines is not a single dose intervention strategy but rather a systematic support system. Second, our project will bring together a well qualified team of faculty, staff and students from across the Wayne State University Campus. Third, we will target not only girls in grades 8-12, but also provide support for parents. Fourth, we will cap current technology to build peer support, mentoring, and social support from undergraduate preceptors to sustain momentum during the academic year after. Environment. University, Wayne State occupies a unique niche as a catalyst for investigating and helping to resolve myriad issues facing residents of the contemporary urban environment and is therefore well suited for our proposed intervention. Overall Impact. The impact of the proposal lies in the recruitment of under-represented populations, particularly African-Americans and girls, to health related STEM activities; and the promise for future dissemination and scalability. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our proposal is relevant to public health because it will (1) increase the number of girls entering college from the Detroit Metropolitan area with both the capacity and the intent to pursue STEM related majors en route to careers in health disciplines, thus working towards a generation of health professionals that is more reflective of the national racial and ethnic demographic; and (2) to contribute to our national understanding of how to remedy and mitigate the barriers faced by underrepresented students - ultimately providing a clear pathway to STEM disciplines for all students.

描述（由申请人提供）：获得选项：女孩调查真实的生活通过健康相关的干细胞的意义。卫生保健系统受到更多关注。减少健康差距的努力仍然充满争议。虽然最高层的政治斗争仍在继续，但贫困者、少数种族/族裔、妇女或其他长期处于社会不利地位或受到歧视的群体等处于不利地位的社会群体的成员的健康状况仍然低于标准，而且/或者面临的健康风险比处于不利地位的社会群体更大。不同人群在与健康相关的STEM学科、卫生专业中的代表性，以及为服务不足的人群消除医疗保健质量和可用性差距的能力。目标和方法。我们建议的干预措施特别关注高中女生，特别是有色人种的女孩。我们的长期目标是增加从底特律大都会地区进入大学的女孩数量，这些女孩既有能力又有意愿追求STEM相关的健康学科，并有助于我们国家对如何补救和减轻代表性不足的学生所面临的障碍的理解。为了实现这一目标，我们将采用暑期学院，学年咖啡馆，女孩和家长和通过社交网站和当前技术的持续辅导支持，以实现以下目标：1）增加和维持高中女生在健康相关的STEM学科的参与; 2）通过提高STEM相关健康领域的大学入学所需的个人和学术技能的高Ao-edge，建立追求STEM事业的能力3）通过将高中女生与健康相关STEM学科的榜样和导师联系起来，在整个高中提供连续性。创新拟议的干预措施具有创造性和创新性，原因有几个。首先，“获得选择：女孩通过与健康有关的STEM课程调查真实的生活”不是一个单一的干预战略，而是一个系统的支持系统。其次，我们的项目将汇集来自整个韦恩州立大学校园的教师，员工和学生的优秀团队。第三，我们将不仅针对8-12年级的女孩，而且还为家长提供支持。第四，我们将限制当前的技术，以建立同侪支持，指导和社会支持，从本科导师，以维持在学年后的势头。环境大学，韦恩州占据了一个独特的利基作为一个催化剂，调查和帮助解决居民面临的无数问题的当代城市环境，因此非常适合我们提出的干预。整体影响。该提案的影响在于招募代表性不足的人群，特别是非洲裔美国人和女孩，参加与健康有关的STEM活动;以及未来传播和可扩展性的承诺。 公共卫生关系：我们的建议与公共卫生有关，因为它将（1）增加从底特律大都会地区进入大学的女孩数量，这些女孩既有能力又有意愿在健康学科的职业生涯中追求STEM相关专业，从而努力培养一代更能反映国家种族和民族人口的卫生专业人员;以及（2）促进我们国家对如何补救和减轻代表性不足的学生所面临的障碍的理解-最终为所有学生提供一条通往STEM学科的明确途径。