Training in Health Disparity Research for a Diverse Neuroscience Workforce

 描述（由申请人提供）：有许多报告已经确定了中风、阿尔茨海默病、癫痫和帕金森病在护理、严重程度和残疾方面的差异。 尽管如此，神经病学学科似乎落后于其他临床专业，在分析原因，提供干预措施和治疗的社会经济和种族群体，导致弱势群体的明显不良结果。 2010年，国家残疾人研究所召集了一个外部小组，就国家残疾人研究所开展的健康差距研究的优先事项、管理和监督问题进行审查并向国家残疾人研究所提出建议。审查的结果之一是，没有专门的机制来培训未来的健康差距研究人员。 全国有几个流行病学项目专注于神经流行病学培训，但基本上所有项目都要求受训者拥有高级学位，通常是医学博士。该项目的目标是招募来自不同背景的本科生进入维克森林医学院的神经科学临床和健康差异人口研究硕士项目。 有四个独特的资源在维克森林大学，使其成为一个理想的机构，为拟议的计划：1）玛雅安杰洛中心健康公平（casee），2）通过科学的临床和人口转化科学的既定硕士经验，3）一个既定的神经科学研究生课程和4）公共卫生科学部门。招生和与包括HBCUs在内的区域本科院校的合作对于实现我们的目标至关重要。 这个想法是为了让学生对职业选择感兴趣，并培养对神经科学的热爱和对神经系统疾病的理解，以便这些MS学生中的一部分将进入博士课程。 该计划的产品将是神经科学，流行病学和生物统计学培训和动手实践研究项目的坚实基础。

 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.