Research Training/Education Core

研究培训/教育核心将建立一套全面的培训和指导活动，与我们的整体多层次概念模型密切相关，并与研究项目相结合。我们将在前一个资助期内成功实施的一整套培训和指导活动的基础上进行扩展，并使之正式化。核心将协调与CIAHD的两个主要目标密切相关的教育活动：(1)加强必要的培训，以了解少数民族健康和健康差异的多层次决定因素，特别注重综合社会和生物因素；(2)加强我们与杰克逊心脏研究中心（JHS）的合作伙伴关系，并通过我们的青年学者年度研讨会建立与CIAHD相关的初级研究人员网络。培训/教育核心的具体目标是：(1)通过参加密歇根大学（Michigan）、杰克逊州立大学（JSU）和密西西比大学医学中心（UMMC）提供的短期课程、讲习班和研究研讨会，以及积极参与正在进行的研究活动，加强对密歇根大学（Michigan）、杰克逊州立大学（JSU）和密西西比大学医学中心（UMMC）研究生的综合、多层次的少数民族健康和健康差异研究方法的培训。(2)扩大对密歇根大学、JSU大学和UMMC大学博士后和初级教师的培训、教育和指导活动，以综合、多层次的方法研究少数民族健康和健康差异。(3)通过在杰克逊为年轻的少数民族研究者举办年度科学研讨会，以促进研究传播、技能建设、专业发展和建立网络，为年轻研究者在整合少数民族健康和多层次健康差异的社会和生物决定因素方面提供定期培训、教育、职业指导和一般互动的广泛论坛。培训和指导活动将与我们的综合概念模型密切相关，整合到研究项目中，并将扩展和正式确定与杰克逊心脏研究建立的非常成功的培训和教育合作伙伴关系，作为先前资助期的一部分。

The Research Training/Education Core will establish a comprehensive set of training and mentoring activities intimately linked to our overall multilevel conceptual model, and integrated with the Research Projects. We will build on, extend, and formalize the set of training and mentoring activities successfully implemented during the prior funding period. The Core will coordinate the educational activities intimately linked to two major CIAHD goals: (1) enhancing training necessary to develop an understanding of multilevel determinants of minority health and health disparities with a special focus on integrating social and biological factors; and (2) building on our collaborative partnership with the Jackson Heart Study (JHS) and on the network of junior investigators linked to CIAHD through our annual symposium for young scholars. The Specific Aims of the Training/Education Core are: (1) To enhance training in integrative, multilevel approaches to minority health and health disparities research for graduate students at the University of Michigan (Michigan), Jackson State University (JSU), and the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) through participation in short courses, workshops, and research seminars offered at Michigan and active engagement in on-going research activities. (2) To expand training, education, and mentoring activities for postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty in integrative, multilevel approaches to minority health and health disparities research at Michigan, JSU, and UMMC. (3) To create broad-based forum for periodic training, education, career mentoring and general interactions for junior investigators in the integration of social and biological determinants of minority health and health disparities across multiple levels by sponsoring an annual scientific symposium in Jackson for young minority investigators for the purposes of research dissemination, skill-building, professional development, and networking. Training and mentoring activities will be closely linked to our integrated conceptual model, integrated within the research projects, and will expand on and formalize the very successful training and education partnership established with the Jackson Heart Study as part of the prior funding period.