Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research

指导不同学生进行健康差异研究

• 批准号: 8260097
• 负责人: JOHN P. ELDER
• 金额: $ 37.76万
• 依托单位: SAN DIEGO 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: 2011-07-14 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8260097
• 关键词: Academia; Acculturation; Address; Advisory Committees; African American; Alaska Native; American; American Indians; Attention; Awareness; Behavioral; California; Caring; Chronic Disease; Communities; Community Health; Discrimination; Education; Ensure; Face; Faculty; Feedback; Financial Support; Generations; Goals; Growth; Hawaiian population; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Heterogeneity; Hispanics; Home environment; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Internships; Knowledge; Latino; Learning; Master of Public Health; Medical Research; Mentors; Methods; Mexican Americans; Minority; Minority Groups; Minority-Serving Institution; Participant; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk Factors; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Series; Site; Social support; Socioeconomic Status; Students; Subgroup; Time; Training; Training Programs; Underserved Population; United States; Universities; Writing; behavioral health; career; career development; cohort; college; disorder risk; experience; graduate student; health care quality; health disparity; improved; insight; meetings; member; minority health; next generation; programs; research and development; research study; skills; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Given the heterogeneity of factors such as culture, acculturation, and socioeconomic status, there is a need for additional research on health disparities and shared protective and risk factors associated with chronic diseases specific to minority subgroups. However, there is an under-representation of minority researchers, scientists and university faculty in the US, which contributes to a limitation in insight among scientists seeking to understand and reverse the negative health disparities experienced by minority communities. It is thus crucial to train and develop minority students to conduct research that will reduce health disparities and at the same time provide students with opportunities to advance their skills in research, academics, and career pursuits to continue to contribute to reducing health disparities. As more minority students and other students underrepresented in research develop the skills to become researchers, there will be greater potential to diversify the workforce and promote culturally sensitive research that encourages the continued inclusion and participation of diverse groups in research studies. The proposed training program, entitled, "Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research," will bring researchers accomplished in minority community health research together with undergraduate and graduate students to optimize their chances of research, academic and career success and advancement and prepare students to become the next generation of researchers who will be addressing health disparities. To advance the academic or career development of students, the proposed team will offer a Training and Mentoring Program (TMP) involving a series of educational trainings and mentoring by expert researchers, internship participation in community research, and special research projects focused on minority health and health disparities research. Two cohorts of twenty SDSU students each (30 undergraduate and 10 public health master's level graduate students total) who are underrepresented in health disparities research will participate in the two-year TMP. The ultimate goal of the program is to equip the students with the necessary research skills necessary to pursue higher level involvement in an academic or other career pursuit that contributes to reducing health disparities. The proposed TMP will be evaluated regularly to determine the overall relevance and value of the methods employed. Student and mentor feedback will be used to refine the program to best meet the needs of the participants. Further, portions of the program will be disseminated at its conclusion to allow others who are not able to attend to develop productive minority health research skills using aspects of the training. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is an under-representation of minorities conducting health disparities research in the US, which contributes to a narrowing of insights among scientists seeking to understand and reverse the negative health disparities experienced by minority communities. Therefore, this training and mentoring program will fulfill a great need by training and developing undergraduate and graduate students underrepresented in research to develop research skills to contribute to the reduction in health disparities and therefore increase minority community members' access to culturally competent health information and care.

说明(申请人提供)：鉴于文化、文化适应和社会经济地位等因素的异质性，有必要对少数群体特有的健康差距和与慢性病相关的共同保护和风险因素进行更多研究。然而，在美国，少数族裔研究人员、科学家和大学教职员工的代表性不足，这导致寻求了解和扭转少数族裔社区经历的负面健康差距的科学家在洞察力方面受到限制。因此，至关重要的是培训和发展少数族裔学生进行研究，以减少健康差距，同时为学生提供机会，提高他们在研究、学术和职业追求方面的技能，以继续为缩小健康差距做出贡献。随着更多的少数族裔学生和其他在研究中代表性不足的学生发展成为研究人员的技能，将有更大的潜力使劳动力多样化，并促进具有文化敏感性的研究，鼓励不同群体继续纳入和参与研究。拟议的培训计划名为“指导不同的健康差距研究学生”，将把在少数族裔社区卫生研究方面有成就的研究人员与本科生和研究生聚集在一起，以优化他们研究、学术和职业成功和晋升的机会，并为学生培养成为解决健康差距问题的下一代研究人员做好准备。为了促进学生的学术或职业发展，拟议的团队将提供培训和指导计划(TMP)，包括一系列由专家研究人员进行的教育培训和指导，参与社区研究的实习机会，以及专注于少数族裔健康和健康差距研究的特别研究项目。两组各20名SDSU学生(共30名本科生和10名公共卫生硕士研究生)将参加为期两年的TMP，这些学生在健康差距研究中的代表性不足。该计划的最终目标是使学生具备必要的研究技能，以追求更高水平的学术或其他职业追求，有助于缩小健康差距。将定期对拟议的TMP进行评估，以确定所采用方法的总体相关性和价值。学生和导师的反馈将被用来改进计划，以最大限度地满足参与者的需求。此外，该方案的部分内容将在其结束时传播，以允许其他不能参加的人利用培训的各个方面发展富有成效的少数群体卫生研究技能。 公共卫生相关性：在美国进行健康差距研究的少数族裔代表不足，这有助于缩小寻求了解和扭转少数族裔社区经历的负面健康差距的科学家的洞察力。因此，这一培训和指导计划将通过培训和发展研究中代表性较低的本科生和研究生来满足巨大的需求，以发展研究技能，为缩小健康差距做出贡献，从而增加少数族裔社区成员获得具有文化能力的健康信息和护理的机会。