Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training

描述(申请人提供)：该申请延续了之前资助的博士研究教育项目，促进公共卫生研究培训中的种族多样性。该教育项目位于密歇根大学公共卫生学院(UMSPH)种族、文化和健康研究中心(CRECH)内。这一IMSD项目的中心目的是增加和保持在UMSPH申请、注册并成功完成博士课程的人数不足的学生(即非裔美国人、拉丁裔和美国印第安人)。到目前为止，该项目已经帮助从代表性不足的群体中培养出29名新的博士。该计划招收所有对种族和民族健康差异研究感兴趣的UMSPH合格学生，不分种族或民族。对种族/族裔差异的实质性关注是合理的，其依据是 有两个观察结果。首先，尽管总体健康状况有所改善，但人口群体之间明显的不平等现象依然存在。其次，太多的健康问题不成比例地落在种族和少数民族群体身上。显然，仍然需要公共卫生研究科学家致力于描述、解释和减少健康差距。被UMSPH博士生录取的学生将被IMSD的一个职位提名。经过挑选的IMSD学生被任命为受薪研究生研究助理。所有的IMSD学生都是在实际兴趣的基础上与负责个性化研究指导、指导和职业指导的教职员工匹配的。IMSD学生还必须报名参加IMSD博士研讨会，在研讨会上他们了解差异研究，并被要求就自己的工作发表研究报告。学生还可以在研讨会上接受负责任地进行研究的培训，以及参加全校9个RCR单元的培训。为了继续前几个资助期的成功，UMSPH IMSD计划将：1)每年支持8名博士生；2)支持学生至少两年；2)与UM Rackham研究生院的荣誉奖学金协调，为学生提供长达5年的资助；4)与三个新的“管道”多样性计划建立伙伴关系，其中两个由NIGMS培训、劳动力发展和多样性司支持(即“博士之桥”和“学士后研究教育计划”)，以及由疾病控制和预防中心支持的“未来公共卫生领袖计划”。IMSD项目的独立评估将由国家机构多样性中心负责。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application continues the previously funded doctoral research education program, Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Research Training. The education program is located within the University of Michigan's School of Public Health's (UMSPH) Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH). The central purpose of this IMSD program is to increase and maintain the number of under-represented students (i.e., African American, Latino, and American Indian) who apply, enroll, and successfully complete doctoral studies at the UMSPH. To date, the program has helped to produce 29 new PhDs from underrepresented groups. The program recruits all UMSPH qualified students, regardless of race or ethnicity, interested in the study of racial and ethnic health disparities. The substantive focus on racial/ethnic disparities is justified on the basis of two observations. First, despite improvements in overall health, noticeable inequalities among population groups persist. Second, far too many health problems fall disproportionately on racial and ethnic minority groups. Clearly there remains an ongoing need for public health research scientists working to describe, explain, and reduce health disparities. Students admitted to a UMSPH doctoral program are nominated for one of the IMSD positions. Selected IMSD students are appointed as paid graduate research assistants. All IMSD students are matched on the basis of substantive interests with faculty who are responsible for personalized research instruction, direction, and career mentoring. IMSD students must also enroll in the IMSD doctoral seminar where they learn about disparities research and are required to deliver research presentations on their own work. Students are also exposed to training in the responsible conduct of research in the seminar as well as through required attendance at 9 school-wide RCR modules. In order to continue the success of the prior funding periods, the UMSPH IMSD program will: 1) support eight doctoral students each year; 2) support students for a minimum of two years; 2) coordinate with the UM Rackham School of Graduate Studies' Merit Fellowship in order to offer students up to five-years of funding; 4) establish partnerships with three new "pipeline" diversity programs, two supported by the NIGMS Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (i.e., the "Bridge to the Doctorate" and the "Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program") and the "Future Public Health Leaders Program" supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The IMSD program's independent evaluation will be handled by the National Center for Institutional Diversity.