Advancing Health Opportunities Research Alliance

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的规划倡议旨在加强加州州立大学长滩分校（CSULB）的能力，以最佳方式为那些在生物医学和行为研究中最缺乏代表性的人群开发高级博士学位的管道。第一代受过教育的拉丁裔、非裔美国人和印第安人学生在生物医学和行为学科中的代表性一直严重不足，而且将继续严重不足。通过推进健康机会研究联盟（AHORA）倡议，我们寻求利用高生产力教师的专业知识和培训能力，促进为代表性不足的学生提供教育和研究经验的环境，这将优化他们在博士研究项目中的成功。AHORA倡议的具体目标是：1)形成内部和外部机构研究和管道合作伙伴和项目的协作，成为AHORA网络联盟；2)进行优势、劣势、机会和威胁（SWOT）分析，以评估项目资源和需求，并将其与机构基础设施的专家反馈相结合，以制定初步的最佳实践报告；根据目标2的调查结果，为即将到来的BUILD计划制定一个创新的战略计划，以建立符合文化的教育指导、严格的研究培训以及为生物医学和行为科学领域代表性不足的学生设计的招聘和保留策略。此外，将通过拟议的BUILD规划过程和倡议，通过重点加强我们在CSULB的生物医学和行为科学系，我们的CSU和社区学院合作伙伴以及我们的全国导师网络之间的合作，寻求这些努力的制度化。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed planning initiative aims to strengthen the ability of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) to optimally develop a pipeline for advanced doctoral degrees for those population groups most underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research. First generation-educated Latino, African American, and Native American students have been, and continue to be, gravely underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral disciplines. Through the Advancing Health Opportunities Research Alliance (AHORA) initiative, we seek to harness the expertise and training capabilities of highly productive faculty to promote an environment that provides underrepresented students with educational and research experiences that will optimize their success in doctoral research programs. The specific aims of the AHORA initiative are to: 1) Form a collaborative of internal and external institutional research and pipeline partners and programs to become the AHORA Network Consortium; 2) Conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis to assess programmatic resources and needs, which will be integrated with expert feedback on institutional infrastructure, in order to develop a preliminary best practices report; ) Based on findings from Aim 2, create an innovative strategic plan for the development of the forthcoming BUILD initiative to establish culturally responsive educational mentorship, rigorous research training, and recruitment and retention strategies designed for underrepresented students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Furthermore, institutionalization of these efforts will be sought through the proposed BUILD planning process and initiative by focusing on strengthening the collaboration between our biomedical and behavioral science departments at CSULB, our CSU and community college partners, and our national network of mentors.