Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training

少数民族人口预防研究员培训

• 批准号: 8069126
• 负责人: Torsten Brian Neilands
• 金额: $ 31.08万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8069126
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adolescent; Affect; Applications Grants; Area; Award; Behavior; Behavioral; Cell Nucleus; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Color; Communities; Community Networks; Consultations; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Disease Progression; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Environment; Epidemic; Equation; Ethnography; Evidence based intervention; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Family; Feedback; Friendships; Funding; Funding Agency; Goals; HIV; Health; Human; Individual; Infection prevention; Institution; Institutional Review Boards; Interdisciplinary Study; Leadership; Manuscripts; Maps; Measures; Medical Sociology; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Modeling; Pathway Analysis; Peer Review; Pilot Projects; Population; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Prevention; Prevention Research; Principal Investigator; Protocols documentation; Psychology; Publications; Reproductive Health; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Scientist; Secure; Seeds; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Social Network; System; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Writing; base; behavior measurement; contextual factors; design; disability; empowered; ethnic minority population; experience; health disparity; improved; innovation; meetings; migration; minority health; prevent; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; racism; research study; residence; skills; social; stem; theories; trend; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks continuation of funding for the Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training (MPPRT) program. The MPPRT addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent STI- prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for social and behavioral prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. This five-year project will provide educational, mentoring and technical assistance to facilitate the development and continuation of innovative STI/HIV-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority populations by expanding the currently successful program to: 1) Train MPPRT scientists in research methods (such as behavioral measurement, ethnography, GIS mapping, structural equation modeling, and social network analysis) to build scientists' capacity to conduct interdisciplinary STI/HIV-prevention research of structural and individual factors affecting STI/HIV-risk behavior in racial and ethnic minority populations; 2) Provide funding for pilot research that will yield preliminary data for multi-year grant proposals; 3) Provide education and mentoring in the writing and submission of multi- year grant proposals; and 4) Provide ongoing technical assistance and mentoring to MPPRT scientists to continue their programs of research to prevent STI/HIV in racial and ethnic minority populations. Aims 1, 2, and 3 will be met through an intensive six-week summer program of seminars and one-on-one meetings to be held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. Beginning in the summer of 2009, two new scientists from U.S. universities and research institutions will be added to the program each summer in 2009, 2010, and 2011. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year, and return to CAPS for a second summer to analyze data from their pilot studies. In the third summer they will return to CAPS to write a larger grant proposal that will be submitted to a federal or non-federal agency. Aim 4 will be met by providing former scientists continued access to individualized advice and support from MPPRT mentors, including peer review and consultation regarding scientific questions related to the scientist's research program. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for interdisciplinary networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality STI-prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Significance of the Proposed Program of Research Education Research to advance understanding of the development and progression of diseases and disabilities that contribute to minority health and other health disparities is a major goal of the National Institutes of Health's strategic research plan to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. There are few areas that are more critical to improving the nation's health than understanding the disparities in sexually- transmitted infections (STIs) in minority populations. Innovative, evidence-based interventions that rely on well-researched and culturally-specific theories of human behavior are urgently needed to stem the rising tide of HIV/AIDS and other sexually- transmitted infections in minority populations. HIV/AIDS and other sexually-transmitted infections exert a disproportionate impact in adolescent and young adult populations. Racial and ethnic minority scientists are uniquely positioned to take a leadership role in addressing these issues and to make major contributions to STI-prevention and reproductive health research being conducted in minority communities most affected by these epidemics. The proposed education and mentoring program aims to address this research deficit through offering seed funding to promising social and behavioral prevention scientists to conduct pilot studies and a mentoring infrastructure to empower these scientists to successfully apply for and receive NIH, CDC and non-federal funding to conduct rigorous, multi-year research projects in the communities of color most affected by STI epidemics. The Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training program meets these goals via an innovative, intensive six-week summer in-residence program of seminars, one-on-one consultations with mentors, and peer reviews, reinforced by pilot study funding and ongoing support from mentors during the academic year.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求继续资助少数民族人口预防研究人员培训（MPPRT）计划。MPPRT解决了种族和少数民族社区对文化上胜任的性传播感染预防研究的迫切需求，为具有文化专业知识并正在启动创新研究计划的社会和行为预防科学家提供研究教育和指导。这个为期五年的项目将提供教育、指导和技术援助，通过扩大目前成功的方案，促进在种族和少数民族人口中开展和继续开展创新的性传播感染/艾滋病毒预防研究，以：1）培训MPPRT科学家研究方法（如行为测量，人种学，GIS制图，结构方程建模，（a）通过科学和社会网络分析，培养科学家对影响少数种族和族裔人群性传播感染/艾滋病毒风险行为的结构性和个人因素进行跨学科性传播感染/艾滋病毒预防研究的能力;（b）为试点研究提供资金，为多年赠款提案提供初步数据; 3）在编写和提交多年赠款提案方面提供教育和指导; 4）向MPPRT科学家提供持续的技术援助和指导，以继续他们的研究方案，在种族和少数民族人口中预防性传播感染/艾滋病毒。目标1，2和3将通过在UCSF艾滋病预防研究中心举行的为期六周的密集夏季研讨会和一对一会议计划以及提供资金进行试点研究来实现。从2009年夏天开始，2009年、2010年和2011年每年夏天将有两名来自美国大学和研究机构的新科学家加入该计划。这些科学家将设计试点研究，他们将在下一个学年进行，并返回CAPS的第二个夏天，分析他们的试点研究的数据。在第三个夏天，他们将回到CAPS写一个更大的赠款提案，将提交给一个联邦或非联邦机构。目标4将通过为前科学家提供继续获得MPPRT导师的个性化建议和支持来实现，包括同行评议和与科学家研究计划相关的科学问题咨询。这些合作研究经验提供的指导和跨学科网络的机会将导致美国研究少数民族人口的科学家在高质量的STI预防研究方面的大幅增加。 公共卫生关系：教育研究促进对导致少数民族健康和其他健康差距的疾病和残疾的发展和进展的理解，是国立卫生研究院减少并最终消除健康差距的战略研究计划的主要目标。对于改善国家的健康状况来说，没有什么领域比了解少数民族人群中性传播感染（STI）的差异更重要。迫切需要依赖于经过充分研究和文化特定的人类行为理论的创新性、循证干预措施，以遏制少数群体中艾滋病毒/艾滋病和其他性传播感染的上升趋势。艾滋病毒/艾滋病和其他性传播感染对青少年和年轻成年人的影响特别大。少数种族和少数民族科学家处于独特的地位，可以在解决这些问题方面发挥领导作用，并为在受这些流行病影响最严重的少数民族社区进行的性传播感染预防和生殖健康研究作出重大贡献。拟议的教育和指导计划旨在通过向有前途的社会和行为预防科学家提供种子资金来解决这一研究赤字，以进行试点研究，并建立指导基础设施，使这些科学家能够成功申请并获得NIH，CDC和非联邦资助，在受STI流行病影响最严重的有色人种社区开展严格的多年研究项目。少数民族人口预防研究人员培训计划通过一个创新的，密集的为期六周的夏季驻留研讨会，与导师一对一的磋商和同行评议计划，通过试点研究资金和持续支持加强这些目标在学年期间导师。