Howard University Summer Research Experience Program in Oral Health Disparity for Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Students

霍华德大学少数族裔学生口腔健康差异暑期研究体验项目

• 批准号: 9198985
• 负责人: XINBIN GU
• 金额: $ 5.28万
• 依托单位: HOWARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9198985
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; African American; African American student; Americas; Area; Basic Science; Behavioral Sciences; Caring; Clinical Research; Dental; Dental Schools; Dentistry; Dentists; Diagnosis; Discipline; District of Columbia; Education; Environment; Ethnic group; Evaluation; Event; Exposure to; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health Occupations; Health Professional; Healthcare; Improve Access; Individual; Institutes; Interdisciplinary Study; Knowledge; Laboratories; Mentors; Minority; Mouth Diseases; National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; Oral; Oral health; Participant; Pediatric Dentistry; Population; Privatization; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Science Enrichment; Scientist; Series; Source; Students; System; Technology; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; Training and Infrastructure; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; Underserved Population; United States Health Resources and Services Administration; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Vulnerable Populations; Writing; academic program; career; career development; college; craniofacial; design; experience; health care service; health disparity; improved; interest; minority health; post-doctoral training; programs; public health relevance; racial and ethnic; racial disparity; research facility; role model; student mentoring; success; summer research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): How Racial disparity in oral health has been well documented for several decades. However, the disparity persists, particularly between African Americans and other ethnic groups, despite advances in diagnosis and treatment. Increasing diversity in oral health research and care workforce is an effective strategy to improve the Nation's capacity to address and eliminate oral health disparities. In this project, we propose a full-time eight-week summer research experience program (SREP) at Howard University, aiming at engaging, recruiting and training undergraduate students from underrepresented minority and other disparity populations into minority health care and oral health disparity research. This SREP is designed to be a specialized didactic and mentored academic program with a series of formal and informal research and education activities tailored for recruiting and training undergraduate students. To provide effective mentoring for the students, we will: 1) develop a highly networked team of motivated and skilled mentors from various disciplines through the strong partnership between Howard and Johns Hopkins Universities; and 2) develop an effective and sustainable research training and education infrastructure by establishing a 3-tiered Mentoring System, Committees of Execution and Advising, and an Evaluation Core. The 3-tiered Mentoring System is specifically designed for mentoring each participating undergraduate by a primary mentor with basic, translational or public research focus at Howard, a secondary senior mentor at Johns Hopkins and other institutes, and a career development advisory mentor from oral health professionals. The SREP is also designed to be an extension for two existing training programs at Howard University College of Dentistry: the NIH funded P20 program for training dental school students and faculty, and the HRSA funded Post-doctoral Training Program in Pediatric Dentistry (PTPD). Different from the two programs, the proposed SREP emphasizes on providing research experience for underrepresented undergraduates in oral health disparity. This program, combined with the P20 and PTPD programs, will bring together Howard students from diverse backgrounds and interests to create a rich mix of participants from across disciplinary backgrounds. Through the SREP, we will be able to provide summer research training for five highly qualified students every year over the 5-year funding period (a total of 25 students). By participating in multi-disciplinary research projects and education events of senior investigators who will serve as mentors and role models, the students will gain valuable research experience and knowledge in oral health, and promote them into advanced education in oral health. Successful completion of this program will have significantly impacted the dental, oral and craniofacial research and training environment at Howard University College of Dentistry.

 描述（由适用提供）：几十年来，口腔健康的种族差异如何得到充分记录。但是，在诊断和治疗方面的进步之前，差距持续存在，尤其是在非裔美国人和其他种族之间。口腔健康研究和护理劳动力的多样性增加是提高国家解决和消除口腔健康差异能力的有效策略。在这个项目中，我们建议在霍华德大学进行一项全日制八周的夏季研究经验计划（SREP），旨在参与，招募和培训来自代表性不足的少数群体和其他差距人群的本科生，以及少数民族卫生保健和口腔健康差异研究。该SREP旨在成为专门的教学课程，并被认为是学术课程，其一系列正式和非正式的研究和教育活动量身定制，适合招募和培训本科生。为了为学生提供有效的心理，我们将：1）通过霍华德和约翰·霍普金斯大学之间的牢固伙伴关系，从各个学科建立一个高度网络的融合和熟练心态的团队； 2）通过建立一个三层指导系统，执行和咨询委员会以及评估核心来开发有效，可持续的研究培训和教育基础设施。三层指导系统是专门设计的，专门设计用于在霍华德的基本，翻译或公共研究重点，约翰·霍普金斯和其他机构的二级高级精神的基础，翻译或公共研究重点，以及口腔健康专业人员的职业发展咨询精神上。 SREP还旨在为霍华德大学牙科学院的两个现有培训计划的扩展：NIH资助的P20 P20培训牙科学校学生和教职员工，HRSA资助的儿科牙科博士后培训计划（PTPD）。与这两个计划不同，拟议中的SREP强调为口腔健康差异的本科生提供研究经验。该计划与P20和PTPD计划相结合，将汇集来自潜水员背景和兴趣的霍华德学生，以创造来自跨学科背景的丰富参与者。通过SREP，我们将能够在5年的资助期（共25名学生）中为五名高素质学生提供夏季研究培训。通过参与将担任导师和榜样的高级研究人员的多学科研究项目和教育活动，学生将获得有价值的研究经验和口腔健康知识，并将其提升为口腔健康高级教育。该计划的成功完成将极大地影响霍华德大学牙科学院的牙科，口腔和颅面研究和培训环境。