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（由申请人提供）：几十年来，口腔健康方面的种族差异是如何得到充分记录的。然而，尽管诊断和治疗取得了进步，但这种差距仍然存在，特别是在非裔美国人和其他族裔群体之间。增加口腔健康研究和护理人员的多样性是提高国家解决和消除口腔健康差异能力的有效策略。在该项目中，我们提出在霍华德大学开展为期八周的全日制夏季研究体验项目（SREP），旨在吸引、招募和培训来自代表性不足的少数族裔和其他差异人群的本科生参与少数族裔医疗保健和口腔健康差异研究。该 SREP 旨在成为一个专门的教学和指导学术项目，包含一系列为招收和培训本科生而量身定制的正式和非正式研究和教育活动。 为了给学生提供有效的指导，我们将： 1）通过霍华德大学和约翰·霍普金斯大学之间的强有力的合作伙伴关系，培养一支由来自各个学科的积极进取且技术精湛的导师组成的高度网络化团队； 2) 通过建立三层指导体系、执行和咨询委员会以及评估核心，开发有效且可持续的研究培训和教育基础设施。三级导师系统专门为每个参与的本科生提供指导，由霍华德大学的基础、转化或公共研究重点的初级导师、约翰霍普金斯大学和其他机构的二级高级导师以及口腔健康专业人士的职业发展咨询导师指导。 SREP 还旨在成为霍华德大学牙科学院现有两个培训项目的延伸：NIH 资助的用于培训牙科学校学生和教师的 P20 项目，以及 HRSA 资助的儿科牙科博士后培训项目 (PTPD)。与这两个项目不同的是，拟议的 SREP 强调为口腔健康差异方面代表性不足的本科生提供研究经验。该项目与 P20 和 PTPD 项目相结合，将汇集来自不同背景和兴趣的霍华德学生，形成来自不同学科背景的丰富参与者组合。 通过SREP，我们将能够在5年资助期内每年为5名高素质学生（总共25名学生）提供暑期研究培训。通过参与多学科研究项目和由高级研究人员担任导师和榜样的教育活动，学生将获得宝贵的口腔健康研究经验和知识，并促进他们进入口腔健康的高级教育。该项目的成功完成将对霍华德大学牙科学院的牙科、口腔和颅面研究和培训环境产生重大影响。