International Biomedical Research Training for Hawaiian & Pacific Island Students

描述（由申请人提供）：夏威夷是美国最多元种族的州。尽管夏威夷大学的多样性很高，但夏威夷人、太平洋岛民和菲律宾人以及其他少数群体在生物医学研究领域的代表性仍然严重不足。热带医学，医学微生物学和药理学（T3MP）的部门有一个长期的投资，培训学生从种族代表性不足的背景在热带医学与增加研究职业专业人员谁是夏威夷人，太平洋岛民和菲律宾人的目标。通过T3MP升级计划，我们在关岛、塞班岛和雅浦岛建立了实验室，并开始培训来自太平洋地区的高中生。来自这些地点和夏威夷的高中生在夏威夷大学度过暑假进行定向研究。同样，我们最近在喀麦隆、泰国和中国为研究生和博士后开发了培训项目。为了填补本科生国际研究培训的空白，我们现在申请NIMHD少数民族健康和健康差异国际研究培训（T37）拨款，以完成我们从高中到生物医学研究的培训工作。我们的项目是独特的，因为它专注于与夏威夷有联系的不同种族的学生，他们没有参加其他MHIRT项目。由于我们的项目为正在考虑从事各种生物医学研究的学生（即对博士以外的职业感兴趣的学生）提供国际研究经验，因此将提供夏威夷大学目前无法提供的研究机会。我们计划每年招收本科生9名，研究生1名。这些学生将来自夏威夷大学、檀香山查米纳德大学、位于太平洋的非公民国民就读的大学（例如关岛、美属萨摩亚），以及在其他大学注册的前升学学生。本科工作经验至少为一年。学生将在秋季学期被确定，并在春季学期参加定向阅读课程。在夏季，他们将参加为期8天的生物医学研究介绍研讨会，并讨论研究行为的各个方面以及与他们的研究项目有关的地方、国家和全球各级少数民族健康和健康差异的主题。然后，学员将在喀麦隆或泰国进行大约8周的研究，研究影响健康差距的热带病。回国后，他们会将自己的文化经历与同龄人联系起来；向老师、朋友和家人展示他们的研究成果；并加入研究实验室，在那里他们可以参与研究直到毕业。作为论文的一部分，研究生将在国外度过一个学期。因此，我们的项目是专门为吸引和留住夏威夷人、太平洋岛民、菲律宾人和其他少数民族学生进入生物医学科学而设计的，因为他们需要在生物医学研究的所有领域提供多样性，而不仅仅是在美国

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hawai'i is the most multiracial state in the nation. Even though diversity is high at the University of Hawaii, Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Filipinos, as well as other minority groups, remain seriously underrepresented in biomedical research. The Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology (T3MP) has a long-term investment in training students from ethnically underrepresented backgrounds in Tropical Medicine with the goal of increasing the number of research career professionals who are Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and Filipinos. Through the T3MP STEP-UP program, we have set up laboratories in Guam, Saipan, and Yap and begun to train high school students from the Pacific. High school students from these sites and Hawai'i spend summers conducting directed research at the University of Hawai'i. Similarly, we recently developed training programs in Cameroon, Thailand, and China for graduate and post-doctoral fellows. To fill the gap of undergraduate student international research training, we now apply for the NIMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (T37) grant to complete our pipeline of training efforts from high school through careers in biomedical research. Our Program is unique because it focuses on a population of ethnically-diverse students with ties to Hawai'i who are not participating in other MHIRT programs. Since our program provides an international research experience to students who are considering a wide variety of research careers in biomedical research (i.e., students interested in careers in addition to PhD), research opportunities will be provided that are not currently available at the University of Hawai'i. We propose to enroll 9 undergraduates and 1 graduate student annually. The students will be from the University of Hawai'i, Chaminade University in Honolulu, universities located in the Pacific attended by non- citizen nationals (e.g., Guam, American Samoa), and former STEP-UP students enrolled at other universities. The undergraduate experience will be for a minimum of one year. Students will be identified during the Fall semester and take a course in Directed Reading during the Spring semester. In the summer, they will attend an 8-day Introduction to Biomedical Research Workshop and discuss all aspects of the conduct of research and topics on minority health and health disparities at the local, national and global level that relate to their research projects. Trainees will then spend ~8 weeks in either Cameroon or Thailand conducting research on tropical diseases that impact health disparity. Upon returning, they will relate their cultural experience with peers; present their research results to faculty, friends and family; and join research laboratories where they can participate in research until graduation. The graduate student will spend one semester abroad as part of their dissertation. Thus, our Program is specifically designed to attract and retain Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Filipinos and other minority students into the biomedical sciences, as they are needed to provide diversity in all fields of biomedical research, not only in Hawai'i, but nationally and internationally as well.