Training in Health Disparity Research for a Diverse Neuroscience Workforce

为多元化的神经科学劳动力提供健康差异研究培训

• 批准号: 9125880
• 负责人: Alain Gerald Bertoni
• 金额: $ 25.52万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-30 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9125880
• 关键词: Alzheimer' s Disease; Biometry; Career Choice; Caring; Clinical; Collaborations; Country; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Epidemiology; Epilepsy; Ethnic group; Foundations; Future; Goals; Health; Health Sciences; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Institution; Intervention; Love; Master of Science; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Neurology; Neurosciences; Outcome; Parkinson Disease; Population; Public Health; Recommendation; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Severities; Solid; Stroke; Student recruitment; Students; Training; Translational Research; Universities; disability; disadvantaged population; experience; forest; health disparity; health equity; interest; medical schools; medical specialties; nervous system disorder; programs; socioeconomics; undergraduate student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are numerous reports that have identified disparities in presentation for care, severity and disability for stroke, Alzheimer's Disease, epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease. Nonetheless, the neurology discipline appears to lag behind other clinical specialties in terms of analyzing the causes, delivery of interventions and treatments across socioeconomic and ethnic groups that result in apparent poor outcomes in disadvantaged populations. In 2010, NINDS convened an external panel to review and provide recommendations to NINDS with respect to the priority, administration and oversight of health disparities research conducted by NINDS. Among the results of the review was the conclusion that there is no specific mechanism for training future health disparity researchers. There are several epidemiology programs throughout the country that focus on neuroepidemiology training, but essentially all programs require trainees to have advanced degrees, most often MDs. The goal of this program is to recruit undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds into a Master's Program in Neuroscience Clinical and Population Studies of Health Disparities at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. There are four unique resources at Wake Forest University that make it an ideal institution for the proposed program: 1) The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity (MACHE), 2) experience through an established Master of Science in Clinical and Population Translational Sciences, 3) an established Neuroscience Graduate Program and 4) the Division of Public Health Sciences. Recruitment of students and collaboration with regional undergraduate institutions including HBCUs will be important for attaining our goal. The idea is to interest students a career choice and develops a love of neuroscience and understanding neurological disorders so that a proportion of these MS students will move onto PhD programs. The product of this program will be a solid foundation in Neuroscience, epidemiology and biostatistics training and hands- on, practical research projects.

 描述（由申请人提供）：有大量报告表明中风、阿尔茨海默病、癫痫和帕金森病的护理、严重程度和残疾的表现存在差异。 尽管如此，神经病学学科在分析原因、跨社会经济和种族群体的干预措施和治疗方面似乎落后于其他临床专业，这些因素导致弱势群体的结果明显不佳。 2010 年，NINDS 召集了一个外部小组，对 NINDS 进行的健康差异研究的优先顺序、管理和监督进行审查并向 NINDS 提供建议。审查结果得出的结论是，没有专门的机制来培训未来的健康差异研究人员。 全国各地有几个专注于神经流行病学培训的流行病学项目，但基本上所有项目都要求受训者拥有高级学位，最常见的是医学博士。该项目的目标是招收来自不同背景的本科生进入维克森林医学院神经科学临床和健康差异人口研究硕士项目。 维克森林大学有四种独特的资源，使其成为拟议项目的理想机构：1）玛雅·安杰卢健康公平中心（MACHE），2）通过建立临床和人口转化科学理学硕士的经验，3）建立神经科学研究生项目和4）公共卫生科学部门。招生以及与包括 HBCU 在内的地区本科院校的合作对于实现我们的目标非常重要。 这个想法是为了让学生对职业选择感兴趣，培养对神经科学和理解神经系统疾病的热爱，以便这些硕士生中的一部分能够继续攻读博士学位。 该计划的产品将为神经科学、流行病学和生物统计学培训以及动手实践研究项目奠定坚实的基础。