Research Training/Education Core

拟议的研究培训/教育核心包括旨在增加 参加生物医学和公共教育的少数群体学生人数 健康教育计划和应用研究培训经验有关的健康差距。 与研究核心的拟议重点一致，研究培训计划将侧重于 特别是在妇女健康差距方面。通过现有的德克萨斯州健康中心 研究培训/教育核心的具体目标是：1） 支持教师和社区利益相关者在健康差异研究方面的专业发展 以及（2）增加URM本科生的健康差异研究机会。TCHD 赞助了一个成功的奖学金计划，迈向学术研究（星星）奖学金。的 星星奖学金是从2005年开始作为我们机构出口中心活动的一部分开发的- 2010年，并已成为联合国人类住区中心少数民族教育和研究协调计划的核心。 它为从K-12到博士后的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生提供了独特的机会 培训，以了解和参与健康差距教育和研究。主元件 我们提议的COE中的一项，将是更新、更新和扩大星星奖学金。该计划将 通过更广泛地纳入基于社区的示范性研究（CBPR）培训， 活动纳入计划课程，并通过开发社区研究员轨道进入星星 奖学金计划。研究培训/教育计划将由Jose A.哈丹？帕甘 琼斯和罗伯特·卡曼。这个领导团队bngs在研究和跨学科的专业知识， 与CBPR（异教徒和卡曼）、社会和行为科学中的健康差异相关的研究培训 （异教和卡曼），生物医学科学（琼斯），公共卫生法（卡曼），医疗保健管理和 卫生经济学（Pagan）和卫生政策（Pagan和Kaman）。与具体目标相一致， 研究培训/教育核心，与研究和推广核心的广泛互动是 整合到核心的所有活动中。

The proposed Research Training/Education Core consists of programs and activities directed at increasing the number of students from underrepresented minority groups, who participate in biomedical and public health educational programs and applied research training experiences related to health disparities. Consistent with the proposed focus ofthe Research Core, the research training programs will focus specifically in the area of Women's Health Disparities. Working through the existing Texas Center for Health Disparities (TCHD) infrastructure, the specific aims ofthe Research Training/Education Core are: 1) to support the professional development of faculty and community stakeholders in health disparities research and (2) to enhance health disparities research opportunities for URM undergraduate students. The TCHD sponsors a successful fellowship program, the Steps Toward Academic Research (STAR) Fellowship. The STAR Fellowship was developed as a component of our institution's EXPORT Center activities from 2005 - 2010, and has become a centerpiece ofthe UNTHSC Coordinated Plan for minority education and research. It provides unique opportunities for underrepresented minority (URM) students from K-12 throughout postdoctorate training to learn about and engage in health disparities education and research. A primary element of our proposed COE, will be to renew, update, and expand the STAR Fellowship. The program will be expanded by more extensively incorporating Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) training and activities into the program curriculum, and by also developing a Community Fellows Track into the STAR Fellowship program. The Research Training/Education program will be led by Drs. Jose A. Pagan, Hadan P. Jones, and Robert Kaman. This leadership team bnngs together transdisciplinary expertise in research and research training related to CBPR (Pagan and Kaman), health disparities in social and behavioral sciences (Pagan and Kaman), biomedical sciences (Jones), public health law (Kaman), health care management and health economics (Pagan), and health policy (Pagan and Kaman). Consistent with the specific goals ofthe Research Training/Education Core, extensive interactions with the research and outreach cores are integrated into all activities ofthe core.