Nuestro Futuro: Applied Science Education to Engage Black and Latino Youth

Nuestro Futuro：应用科学教育吸引黑人和拉丁裔青年

• 批准号: 8259893
• 负责人: Flavia Perea
• 金额: $ 17.77万
• 依托单位: TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8259893
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project is a curriculum based educational opportunity implemented in an after- school enrichment setting in a Boston, MA public middle school. The project builds on the active NIMHD funded research intervention study, Nuestro Futuro Saludable. This academic enrichment program is focused on inquiry-based science education, public outreach and community-based information campaigns to educate students, families, and their communities on health research topics within a health equity framework. The program is designed to (1) cultivate a deeper, contextualized understanding of scientific concepts among students related to health disparities and the social determinants of health in their community; (2) teach students to foster their ability to "think" like scientists from various disciplines (eg: epidemiology, sociology, biomedicine) as they study diseases that present disparities in their community (eg: asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS); and (3) provide an opportunity for students to use what they have learned about health, science, and disparities to develop and carry-out local advocacy and outreach efforts. The project is designed to increase the scientific literacy of Latino and Black students, as well as student interest in the sciences and enthusiasm for studying the sciences by providing research career awareness opportunities, mentoring and information dissemination to increase the representation of underrepresented minority groups in the sciences. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The US will have a majority-minority population by 2042, thus minority health will soon characterize the nation's health. Blacks and Latinos, health disparity populations that bear an unequal burden of preventable disease and disability, demonstrate poor academic achievement in the sciences. Alleviating health disparities requires similar progress in addressing disparities in K-12 education and, therefore, it is imperative to increase the number of these underrepresented minorities in the sciences, medicine, health, and research in order to increase the knowledge base and inform efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities.

描述(由申请者提供)：这个项目是在马萨诸塞州波士顿一所公立中学的课外充实环境中实施的基于课程的教育机会。该项目建立在NIMHD资助的积极研究干预研究Nuestro Futuro Saludable的基础上。这一学术充实计划的重点是基于探究的科学教育、公共宣传和基于社区的信息活动，以在卫生公平框架内就卫生研究主题教育学生、家庭和他们的社区。该计划旨在(1)培养学生对与其所在社区的健康差距和健康的社会决定因素有关的科学概念的更深入、更具情境化的理解；(2)教育学生培养他们的能力，使他们能够像来自不同学科(如：流行病学、社会学、生物医学)的科学家一样“思考”，因为他们研究在其社区中存在差异的疾病(如：哮喘、糖尿病、艾滋病毒/艾滋病)；以及(3)为学生提供一个机会，利用他们所学到的关于健康、科学和差异的知识来发展和开展地方宣传和外展工作。该项目旨在提高拉美裔和黑人学生的科学素养，以及学生对科学的兴趣和学习科学的热情，方法是提供研究职业认识机会、指导和信息传播，以增加科学中代表性不足的少数群体的代表性。 与公共健康相关：到2042年，美国将拥有少数族裔占多数的人口，因此少数族裔健康将很快成为国家健康的特征。黑人和拉丁裔是健康差距较大的人群，他们在可预防的疾病和残疾方面承受着不平等的负担，在科学方面表现出糟糕的学术成就。缓解健康差距需要在解决K-12教育差距方面取得同样的进展，因此，必须增加科学、医学、卫生和研究领域中这些代表性不足的少数群体的人数，以便增加知识基础，并为减少和消除健康差距的努力提供信息。