PRIDE COORDINATION CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：本申请旨在解决几个培训项目的组织和支持需求，这些项目致力于增加生物医学研究科学家之间的多样性（称为PRIDE）。骄傲计划进行指导的暑期研究所，旨在通过进一步发展他们的研究技能和知识，提高少数民族初级教师和科学家的职业发展。该项目将作为支持这些培训方案的协调核心。CC将通过设计和监督基于网络的基础设施来促进方案之间的教育和评估活动，并完成以下工作。(1)征聘和外联：CC将使用基于网络的信息学方法来开发和协调外联工作，以招募暑期研究所计划的受训人员。(2)指导和网络：协调委员会将协调各种努力，为受训人员确定导师（辅导小组），为辅导小组制定和举办培训讲习班，评价辅导小组的效力，并确定和传播关于受训人员额外培训和建立联系机会的信息。(3)会议：协调委员会将负责协调委员会对每个项目进行实地考察以及在华盛顿地区举行至少两次年会的所有计划和后勤工作。一个年度会议将出席由PI和NHLBI工作人员（董事会议）和另一个由所有NHLBI和程序的工作人员，教师，学员和导师（年度骄傲会议）。(4)通讯：CC将处理所有通信，包括协调电话会议、记录和分发电话会议和会议记录，以及创建基于网络的资源以满足整个项目的需求，例如发布目录、NIH政策和程序、招聘和申请材料、时事通讯、资助机会和公告。(5)评估和跟踪：协调委员会将促进为整个联合体制定一项基于网络的评估和跟踪协议，包括一项跟踪以前由国家HLBI支持的研究（SIPID）中的学员的建议。最后，协调委员会将促进编写分析报告和报告，记录骄傲倡议工作的进展情况。 公共卫生相关性：众所周知，心血管疾病不成比例地影响少数群体，但招募少数群体参加这些研究一直很困难。另一方面，当研究项目由少数民族科学家领导和进行时，少数民族的招聘情况大大改善。因此，需要进行培训，使来自不同背景的教员和科学家能够进一步发展他们的技能和知识，并加强他们作为研究教员和科学家的职业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: This application seeks to address the organizational and support needs of several training programs that are engaged in efforts to increase diversity among scientists doing biomedical research (called PRIDE). The PRIDE programs conduct mentored Summer Institutes that are designed to enhance the career development of minority junior faculty and scientists by further developing their research skills and knowledge. This project will serve as the coordination core (CC) to support these training programs. The CC will facilitate the education and evaluation activities among programs by designing and overseeing a web-based infrastructure does the following. (1) Recruitment and outreach: The CC will use web-based informatics methods to develop and coordinate outreach efforts to recruit trainees to the Summer Institute programs. (2) Mentoring and Networking: The CC will coordinate efforts to identify mentors for the trainees (mentoring teams), to develop and conduct training workshops for the mentoring teams, to evaluate the effectiveness of the mentoring teams, and to identify and disseminate information on additional training and networking opportunities for the trainees. (3) Meetings: The CC will handle all plans and logistics for the CC to site-visit each program and for at least two annual meetings to be held in the Washington DC area. One annual meeting will be attended by the PIs and NHLBI staff (directors meeting) and another by all the NHLBI and program staff, faculty, mentees and mentors (Annual PRIDE Conference). (4) Communications: The CC will handle all communications including coordinating conference calls, recording and distributing minutes of calls and meetings, and creating web- based resources for program-wide needs such as posting directories, NIH policies and procedures, recruiting and application materials, newsletters, funding opportunities, and announcements. (5) Evaluations and Tracking: The CC will facilitate the development of a web-based evaluations and tracking protocol for the entire consortium, including a proposal to track mentees from a previous NHLBI-supported study (SIPID). Finally, the CC will facilitate the production of analyses and reports documenting the progress of the PRIDE efforts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Relevance It is well known that CVD disproportionately affects minorities, and yet recruiting minorities into these research studies has been difficult. On the other hand, minority recruiting is greatly improved when research projects are led and conducted by minority scientists. Consequently, training is needed that will enable faculty and scientists from diverse backgrounds to further develop their skills and knowledge and enhance their career development as research faculty and scientists.