Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training

摘要 本申请寻求继续为少数民族人口预防研究员提供资金 培训(MPPRT)计划。MPPRT解决了对具有文化能力的STI的迫切需求- 在种族和少数民族社区进行预防研究，提供研究教育和 为具有文化专长的社会和行为预防科学家提供指导，并正在发起 创新的研究项目。这个为期五年的项目将提供教育、指导和技术 协助发展和继续开展创新性的性传播感染/艾滋病毒预防研究 通过将目前成功的方案扩大到：1)培训MPPRT 研究方法(如行为测量、人种学、地理信息系统制图、结构分析)的科学家 方程建模和社会网络分析)，以培养科学家进行跨学科研究的能力 影响人种STI/HIV危险行为的结构性和个体性因素的预防研究 和少数民族人口；2)为将产生初步数据的试点研究提供资金 多年期赠款提案；3)在撰写和提交多年期资助计划方面提供教育和指导 4)向MPPRT科学家提供持续的技术援助和指导，以 继续他们的研究方案，以预防种族和少数民族人群中的性传播感染/艾滋病毒。目标1， 2和3将通过为期六周的密集暑期研讨会和一对一计划进行会面 将在加州大学旧金山分校艾滋病预防研究中心举行的会议以及为 开展先导性研究。从2009年夏天开始，来自美国的两名新科学家。 大学和研究机构将在2009年、2010年和每年夏天加入该计划 2011年。这些科学家将设计先导研究，他们将在接下来的学术研究中进行 一年，并第二个夏天回到CAPS来分析他们的试点研究的数据。在第三节 夏天，他们将回到CAPS起草一份更大的拨款提案，提交给联邦或 非联邦机构。目标4将通过为前科学家继续提供个性化的访问来实现 来自MPPRT导师的建议和支持，包括同行审查和关于科学的咨询 与科学家的研究计划有关的问题。这些合作伙伴提供的指导 跨学科网络的研究经验和机会将带来大量的 研究美国少数族裔人群的科学家增加了高质量的性传播感染预防研究。

Abstract This application seeks continuation of funding for the Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training (MPPRT) program. The MPPRT addresses the urgent needs for culturally-competent STI- prevention research in racial and ethnic minority communities by offering research education and mentoring for social and behavioral prevention scientists who have cultural expertise and are initiating innovative programs of research. This five-year project will provide educational, mentoring and technical assistance to facilitate the development and continuation of innovative STI/HIV-prevention research in racial and ethnic minority populations by expanding the currently successful program to: 1) Train MPPRT scientists in research methods (such as behavioral measurement, ethnography, GIS mapping, structural equation modeling, and social network analysis) to build scientists' capacity to conduct interdisciplinary STI/HIV-prevention research of structural and individual factors affecting STI/HIV-risk behavior in racial and ethnic minority populations; 2) Provide funding for pilot research that will yield preliminary data for multi-year grant proposals; 3) Provide education and mentoring in the writing and submission of multi- year grant proposals; and 4) Provide ongoing technical assistance and mentoring to MPPRT scientists to continue their programs of research to prevent STI/HIV in racial and ethnic minority populations. Aims 1, 2, and 3 will be met through an intensive six-week summer program of seminars and one-on-one meetings to be held at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies as well as provision of funds to conduct a pilot research study. Beginning in the summer of 2009, two new scientists from U.S. universities and research institutions will be added to the program each summer in 2009, 2010, and 2011. These scientists will design pilot studies, which they will conduct during the following academic year, and return to CAPS for a second summer to analyze data from their pilot studies. In the third summer they will return to CAPS to write a larger grant proposal that will be submitted to a federal or non-federal agency. Aim 4 will be met by providing former scientists continued access to individualized advice and support from MPPRT mentors, including peer review and consultation regarding scientific questions related to the scientist's research program. The guidance provided by these collaborative research experiences and opportunities for interdisciplinary networking will result in a substantial increase in high quality STI-prevention research by scientists studying minority populations in the U.S.