Short-Term Training in Cardiovascular Research

描述（由申请人提供）：这个“增加健康相关研究多样性的短期培训计划”（R25）的目的是刺激美国密西西比三角洲地区传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的健康专业学生群体在心血管研究方面的职业发展。密西西比河下游三角洲地区是沿密西西比河的219个国家的狭长地带，位于阿肯色州、伊利诺伊州、肯塔基州、路易斯安那州、密西西比州和田纳西州，人口约为830万，其中包括很大比例的低收入人口、非裔美国人后裔，以及越来越多的其他有色人种。该项目的优势源于合作者之间持续和共同的承诺，包括来自布里格姆妇女医院，贝斯以色列女执事医疗中心，GRECC VA波士顿医疗保健系统，希伯来老年生活和塔夫茨大学的教师，以及来自资源密集型hbcu（北卡罗来纳A&T，巴吞鲁日南方大学，莫尔豪斯医学院）的教师，以及来自小型，以及缺乏研究基础设施的私立hbcu（格兰布林州立大学、密西西比河谷州立大学、奥尔康州立大学、拉斯特学院）。我们提出了四个具体目标：1)为参与hbcu的代表性不足的卫生专业学生提供指导，短期研究经验；2)促进教育经验和活动，提高学生的学术交流和社交能力；3)促进一个持续的联系和信息网络的发展，这将帮助这些学生克服历史上的障碍，这些障碍往往限制了他们进入研究事业并取得成功；4)评估该计划在满足短期和长期目标方面的成功。我们坚信，这个项目将大大扩大参与的hbcu的学员的“管道”，使他们成为独立调查员。这些研究人员将能够对理解和消除健康差异做出实质性贡献，特别关注减少生活在美国密西西比三角洲地区的非洲裔美国人心血管健康状况的社会、环境和行为决定因素的影响。这项提案的目的是支持对少数族裔医学院学生和公共卫生研究生的研究培训，以鼓励他们从事致力于减少心血管疾病健康差异的职业。（摘要结束）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this "Short-Term Training Program to Increase Diversity in Health Related Research" (R25) is to stimulate career development in cardiovascular research among health professional student populations at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the Mississippi delta region of the United States. The Lower Mississippi Delta Region, a 219-country strip along the Mississippi River in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee is populated by approximately 8.3 million people, including a large percentage of low income people, African American descent, and with growing numbers of other people of color. The strength of this project stems from a sustained and shared commitment among the collaborators, including faculty from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, GRECC VA Boston HealthCare System, Hebrew Senior Life, and Tufts University, and faculty from resource-intensive HBCUs (North Carolina A&T, Southern University at Baton Rouge, Morehouse School of Medicine), as well as faculty from small, and private HBCUs that lack infrastructure for research (Grambling State Univeristy, Mississippi Valley State Univeristy, Alcorn State University, Rust College). We propose four specific aims: 1) to provide mentored, short-term research experience to under-represented health professional students from the participating HBCUs; 2) to promote educational experiences and activities that will enhance students' academic communication and networking skills; 3) to facilitate the development of a sustained network for contacts and information that will help these students to overcome historical barriers to access that have often served to limit entry and success in the research enterprise; and, 4) to evaluate the success of the program in meeting both short term and long term objectives. It is our strong belief that this project will significantly enlarge the "pipeline" of trainees from the participating HBCUs who pursue careers as independent investigators. These investigators will be capable of making substantial contributions toward understanding and eliminating health disparities, with a specific focus on reducing the impact of social, environmental, and behavioral determinants of cardiovascular health status on African-Americans living in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of the United States. The purpose of this proposal is to support research training to minority medical students and graduate students in public health in order to encourage them to pursue careers committed to the reduction of health disparities in cardiovascular disease. (End of Abstract)