Improving Montana Community Health Through Graduate Education

通过研究生教育改善蒙大拿州社区健康

• 批准号: 8259683
• 负责人: Anne K Camper
• 金额: $ 5.2万
• 依托单位: MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8259683
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of Improving Montana Community Health through Graduate Education is to increase community capacity to reduce health disparities in our state, by supporting under-represented minority (URM) graduate students in biomedical and behavioral sciences, who have strong ties to underserved Montana communities. Our hypothesis is that URM students will be more likely to apply to and complete health-related graduate programs when they have the opportunity to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) on health issues in their home communities. Graduate study can therefore be meaningful to them and their families, and be seen as leading to a career in which they can work to improve the health of their people. In communities where people have historically been the victims rather than the beneficiaries of research, ensuring that graduate work is locally meaningful and relevant, is vital. This model is already working in Montana (Cummins et. al. 2010), and has been nationally recognized as an effective innovation in undergraduate biology education (http://visionandchange.org/finalreport). Montana State University is uniquely positioned to offer this opportunity to URM graduate students, due to the current network of NIH supported community-based participatory health disparities research projects at all of Montana's seven tribal colleges, being conducted in collaboration with University faculty partners. Our specific aims are to (1) Actively and personally recruit potential scholars statewide, providing mentorship throughout the application process; (2) Help scholars envision and plan how they can use their graduate programs to address health disparities or improve health in their home communities, by providing opportunities to learn about community-based participatory research, and by connecting them with existing tribal college-university networks and appropriate MSU advisors; (3) Provide scholars with financial assistance and academic support for key areas of their graduate education not being addressed by existing MSU resources; (4) Provide scholars with professional development opportunities that will help them succeed both in the academic world and in their home communities; (5) Explore whether integrating a CBPR option into graduate research will increase underrepresented minority students' recruitment into, retention in and satisfaction with graduate education, thereby also increasing their community's capacity to address local health issues, and disseminate what we learn. To attain these specific aims, our objectives are to: (1) Connect graduate degrees with Montana Healthcare Workforce needs; (2) Develop and offer a Research Methods I and II course sequence; (3) Provide a tutor-led study group for Statistics 401, or other top gatekeeper courses; (4) Connect students to existing support services campus wide, including the graduate writing tutor, the American Indian Research Opportunities (AIRO) study center and computer lab, relevant student support programs and student organizations; (5) Provide a supplementary stipend for the top students, and assist all program participants with applying for other sources of graduate school funding; (6) Provide competitively available professional grants management training; (7) Support the broader professional development of program participants through presentation training, conference travel and leadership development training and (8) Dissemination, including recording and posting interviews with URM graduate student and URM scientist role models on project website as well as supporting student presentations of their research. An Advisory Committee representing community research partners, student participants, faculty researchers, and collaborating MSU programs will be established and meet biannually. The evaluation will include baseline, formative and summative components, and will be conducted with input from program participants and their research mentors, community research partners and Advisory Board members, with some assistance from an external evaluator. Dissemination will be via our website, in person on campus, in program participants' home communities, regionally and nationally. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a university-tribal college collaboration has proposed to offer community-based graduate opportunities in any discipline, and therefore dissemination of lessons learned will be vital and useful to URM students and communities nationwide. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of Improving Montana Community Health through Graduate Education is to increase community capacity to reduce health disparities in our state, by supporting under-represented minority (URM) graduate students in biomedical and behavioral sciences, who have strong ties to underserved Montana communities. This program will support new and continuing URM students in graduate programs by offering them the opportunity to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) on health issues in their home communities, as well as by providing academic, financial and social support.

描述（由申请人提供）：通过研究生教育改善蒙大拿州社区健康的目标是通过支持生物医学和行为科学领域的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）研究生，提高社区减少健康差距的能力，他们与蒙大拿州服务不足的社区有着密切的联系。我们的假设是，URM的学生将更有可能申请并完成与健康相关的研究生课程，当他们有机会在他们的家庭社区进行基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）的健康问题。因此，研究生学习对他们和他们的家庭来说是有意义的，并被视为通向一个他们可以努力改善人民健康的职业。在人们历来是研究的受害者而不是受益者的社区，确保研究生工作在当地有意义和相关性至关重要。这种模式已经在蒙大拿州（康明斯等。al. 2010），并被全国公认为本科生物学教育的有效创新（http：//visionandchange.org/finalreport）。蒙大拿州州立大学是独特的定位，提供这个机会，URM研究生，由于目前的网络NIH支持社区为基础的参与性健康差距研究项目在蒙大拿州的七个部落学院，正在与大学教师合作伙伴合作进行。 我们的具体目标是（1）积极和亲自招募潜在的学者全州，在整个申请过程中提供指导;（2）帮助学者设想和计划如何利用他们的研究生课程，以解决健康差距或改善健康在他们的家乡社区，通过提供机会，了解以社区为基础的参与性研究，并通过连接他们与现有的部落学院，大学网络和适当的MSU顾问;（3）为学者提供财政援助和学术支持，他们的研究生教育的关键领域没有解决现有的MSU资源;（4）为学者提供专业发展机会，帮助他们在学术界和本国社区取得成功;（5）探讨将CBPR选项纳入研究生研究是否会增加代表性不足的少数民族学生的招聘，保留和对研究生教育的满意度，从而也提高了他们社区解决当地卫生问题的能力，并传播我们所学到的知识。 为了实现这些具体目标，我们的目标是：（1）连接研究生学位与蒙大拿州医疗保健劳动力的需求;（2）开发和提供研究方法I和II课程序列;（3）提供统计401或其他顶级看门人课程的导师领导的研究小组;（4）将学生与校园内现有的支持服务联系起来，包括研究生写作导师，美国印第安人研究机会（AIRO）学习中心和计算机实验室，相关的学生支持计划和学生组织;（5）为优秀学生提供补充津贴，并协助所有计划参与者申请研究生院的其他资金来源;（6）提供有竞争力的专业补助金管理培训;（7）通过演讲培训支持项目参与者更广泛的专业发展，会议旅行和领导力发展培训和（8）传播，包括记录和发布与URM研究生和URM科学家榜样的访谈，以及支持学生介绍他们的研究。 代表社区研究合作伙伴，学生参与者，教师研究人员和合作MSU计划的咨询委员会将成立，并每半年举行一次会议。评估将包括基线、形成性和总结性组成部分，并将在项目参与者及其研究导师、社区研究合作伙伴和咨询委员会成员的投入下进行，并得到外部评估人员的帮助。传播将通过我们的网站，在校园里的人，在计划参与者的家庭社区，区域和国家。据我们所知，这是第一次大学-部落学院合作提出在任何学科提供以社区为基础的研究生机会，因此传播经验教训对全国的URM学生和社区至关重要和有用。 公共卫生关系：通过研究生教育改善蒙大拿州社区健康的目标是通过支持生物医学和行为科学领域的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）研究生，提高社区减少健康差距的能力，他们与蒙大拿州服务不足的社区有着密切的联系。该计划将支持新的和持续的URM学生在研究生课程，为他们提供机会进行基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）在他们的家庭社区的健康问题，以及通过提供学术，财务和社会支持。