Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity in EHS

摘要 这项申请旨在提供教育活动，鼓励不同背景的人， 包括那些在生物医学和环境科学中代表性不足的群体，以进一步 环境健康研究方面的研究或职业。在通过这个项目从美国国立卫生研究院获得资金后 2015年，我们成功启动了少数民族大学生环境健康激励计划 科学研究(初级读本)。通过此次竞争性续签，我们的目标是继续实现该计划的目标 环境健康科学(EHS)中环境与健康研究人员的多样性 并确保未来几代环境健康研究人员和公共卫生从业者 从整个人才库中脱颖而出，包括代表性不足的少数群体、残疾人和 面临社会经济挑战的人。环境健康问题日益复杂，需要 环境科学和健康科学等学科的成功融合。研究表明， 证明了不同的研究团队在种族、民族、性别、性取向等方面 更擅长解决复杂的问题。为了在应对最严峻的环境健康挑战方面取得进展， 因此，研究团队的成员多元化、跨学科、扎实是至关重要的。 知识和最先进的方法。因此，对于这个新周期，我们建议扩大我们的培训。 机遇。除了保持我们在系内出色的培训和研究机会 在邮差学校公共卫生学院，学生们将有新的正式培训机会 地球研究所、哥伦比亚大学欧文医学中心(CUIMC)和MSPH的其他部门 (流行病学和社会医学科学)。该计划旨在增加不同类型学生的数量。 从事与EHS相关的职业；为EHS参与者提供良好的研究和教育体验 相关主题，通过让学生与教师导师及其团队在研究项目上密切合作 在计划的两年中；并为参与者提供必要的技能，以帮助创造 竞争性申请进入研究生课程，优先考虑与EHS相关的领域， 并在整个过程中提供指导，以确保其成功。 根据过去5年启动和运行Primer计划的成就和经验，以及 有了学生、参与的教职员工和我们的顾问委员会的反馈，我们将继续前进。 拥有更好、更强大和更全面的计划，涵盖构成EHS的许多方面 研究。哥伦比亚大学作为主要研究中心的声誉，其专家教师，广泛的NIEHS研究 投资组合，以及它位于纽约市种族多元、文化丰富的中心地带，使其成为一个理想的地方 开展这项工作，使我们能够为NIEHS建设更多样化的科学劳动力的目标做出贡献。

Summary This application, aims to provide educational activities that encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and environmental sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in environmental health research. After securing funding from the NIH through this program in 2015, we successfully launched the Program to Inspire Minority Undergraduates in Environmental Health Science Research (PrIMER). With this competitive renewal we aim to continue the program's goal to increase the diversity of the environmental and health research workforce in the environmental health sciences (EHS) and ensure that future generations of environmental health researchers and public health practitioners come from the entire pool of talented individuals, including underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities, and the socioeconomically challenged. Environmental health problems are increasingly complex and require the successful integration of environmental and health sciences, among other disciplines. Research has demonstrated that diverse research teams with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, other are better at solving complex problems. To make headway against our toughest environmental health challenges, it is thus essential that research teams are diverse in membership, interdisciplinary, and grounded in solid knowledge and state-of-the art methods. For this new cycle, we thus propose to expand our training opportunities. In addition to maintaining our outstanding training and research opportunities in the Department of EHS at the Mailman School Public Health, the students will have new formal training opportunities at the Earth Institute, the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), and other departments at MSPH (Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences). This program aims to increase the number of diverse students pursuing EHS related careers; to provide a robust research and education experience for participants in EHS related topics, by having students work closely with faculty mentors and their teams on research projects during the two years in the program; and to provide participants with the skills needed to help create competitive applications for admission into programs for graduate studies, prioritizing fields relevant for EHS, and to provide guidance throughout this process to ensure their success. With the achievements and experience of initiating and running the PrIMER Program for the past 5 years, and with feedback from students, participating faculty and our advisory board we are positioned to move ahead with a better, stronger and more comprehensive program that covers the many aspects that comprise EHS research. Columbia's reputation as a major research hub, its expert faculty, the extensive NIEHS research portfolio, and its location in the ethnically diverse, culturally rich center of New York City, make it an ideal place to carry out this work enabling us to contribute to NIEHS's goal of building a more diverse scientific workforce.