UCLA Center for Population Health & Health Disparities Research Education Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议建立一个短期“研究教育计划”，以增加健康相关研究的多样性，旨在增加对健康差异研究感兴趣的本科生和健康专业学生的数量，特别是关注减少拉丁裔人群的心血管疾病（CVD）。该计划将成为我们新的nhlbi资助的（P50）人口健康和健康差异中心（CPHHD）的一部分，并将纳入CPHHD目前的培训和职业发展计划。加州大学洛杉矶分校CPHHD正在进行密集的家庭和社区环境干预，以改善加州东洛杉矶（东洛杉矶）的食物和体育活动环境，并使用跨学科的方法来了解和干预这个低收入、高风险的拉丁裔社区的心血管疾病差异。教育和培训的重点是培养一种新型的健康差异研究人员，他们考虑微观、个人、家庭、系统和社区层面的因素，导致拉丁裔人群的心血管疾病差异，并将实验和社会科学方法相结合。我们提议的项目将利用CPHHD的跨学科研究团队，他们来自生理学、流行病学、心理学、精神病学、营养科学、健康促进、健康传播、生物统计学、媒体和艺术等领域。在五年的项目过程中，我们将从加州大学洛杉矶分校本科项目和加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生、医学、护理和牙科学院，以及其他当地大学，如南加州大学（USC），招募和选择40名代表性不足的学生参加该项目。每年夏天，由一名本科生和一名卫生专业学生组成的四对夫妇将与加州大学洛杉矶分校CPHHD的调查人员合作。学生将得到密集的一对一指导，并将参加以健康差异研究和政策、卫生专业人员的准备和培训以及职业发展为重点的研讨会和讲习班，他们将被要求写一份报告，并向卫生和健康中心的调查人员以及科学和专业会议介绍他们的工作。这是我们的期望，大多数学生将选择进入卫生专业项目或研究事业集中在健康差距。我们将进行过程和结果评估，以确定项目是否成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish a Short-term "Research Education Program" to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research, that aims to increase the number of underrepresented undergraduate and health professional students interested and engaged in health disparities research, particularly focused on reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Latino populations. The program will become part of our new NHLBI-funded (P50) Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD), and it will be integrated into the CPHHD's current Training and Career Development Program. The UCLA CPHHD is conducting intensive home and neighborhood environment interventions to improve the food and physical activity landscape in East Los Angeles, California (East L.A.), and it uses interdisciplinary methods to understand and intervene on CVD disparities in this low-income, high-risk Latino community. The focus of the education and training is to create a new kind of health disparities researcher, who considers the micro, individual, family, systems and community level factors that contribute to CVD disparities in Latino populations and integrates bench and social science approaches. Our proposed program will take advantage of the CPHHD's interdisciplinary team of investigators from the fields of physiology, epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry, nutritional sciences, health promotion, health communications, biostatistics, and media and the arts. Over the course of the five years of the program, we will recruit and select 40 underrepresented students from the UCLA undergraduate program and from the UCLA Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, as well as from other local universities, such as the University of Southern California (USC), to participate in the program. Each summer, four dyads comprised of an undergraduate student and a health professions student will be partnered with UCLA CPHHD investigators. Students will receive intensive one-on-one mentoring and will participate in seminars and workshops focused on health disparities research and policy, health professions preparation and training and career development, and they will be expected to write a report and present their work to the CPHHD investigators and at scientific and professional meetings. It is our expectation that the majority of the students will choose to enter a health professions program or research career focused on health disparities. We will conduct both process and outcome evaluation to determine program success. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is strong need to increase the number of underrepresented students who are interested and engaged in conducting health disparities research. The proposed Short-term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research aims to increase the number of underrepresented students who will conduct Latino based cardiovascular research and the number of underrepresented students who enter health professional programs and pursue careers in health disparities research.