Career Enhancement Core

职业提升核心

• 批准号: 10661205
• 负责人: Shine Chang
• 金额: $ 32.55万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-15 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10661205
• 关键词: Active Learning; Appointment; Award; Bite; Cancer Control; Cancer Science; Career Choice; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Community Actions; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Dedications; Development; Discipline; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Effectiveness; Epidemiologist; Feeling; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Infrastructure; Institution; Instruction; Interdisciplinary Study; Latino Population; Lead; Learning; Malignant Neoplasms; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Obesity; Obesity associated cancer; Population; Population Sciences; Postdoctoral Fellow; Poverty; Poverty Areas; Prevention Research; Productivity; Program Effectiveness; Publications; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Risk Factors; Schedule; Science; Scientist; Seasons; Series; Shapes; Structure; System; Texas; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; Universities; Writing; active lifestyle; anticancer research; burnout; cancer prevention; cancer risk; career; career development; community based participatory research; community organizations; community setting; design; doctoral student; experience; innovation; member; multidisciplinary; novel; obesity prevention; poor communities; professor; programs; promote resilience; recruit; resilience; responsible research conduct; role model; skills; success; synergism; underserved community

The field of cancer prevention and control has grown, however, the cadre of trained and experienced researchers dedicated to cancer prevention in underserved communities grappling with persistent poverty, particularly those trained for multidisciplinary collaboration, remains too small to sufficiently advance the state of the art in cancer prevention and control. Our overall goal is to train early career investigators in the US to join a cadre of scholars who are able and purposefully lead key research efforts in multiple aspects of cancer prevention and control/population science. Such training is critical for success in research and implementation of health programs and practices in underserved settings and are not often emphasized in cancer research training or with sufficient detail in broad programs of cancer prevention and control. Long-term success in such career paths also requires skills in career navigation, resilience, and career persistence that can be fostered through formal training, mentorship by assigned mentors, and role models that will be part of the Career Enhancement Core (CEC) and throughout the proposed Center for Transformative Community Driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer. The specific aims of the Career Enhancement Core (CEC) are to (1) recruit, select, and train high-performing early career scientists for careers leading cancer prevention research in underserved communities, specifically in persistent poverty areas; (2) provide mentored research training experiences in a variety of cancer prevention disciplines; (3) develop a multidisciplinary cancer curriculum with emphasis on drivers of persistent poverty and its impact, research methods used in community settings, and career development for professionals in the field; and (4) evaluate the Program’s effectiveness and track trainees over time. The CEC takes advantage of its integration with the two Research Projects (Brighter Bites; Active Living After Cancer) and the other Cores, including activities funded by the BeWell infrastructure. For two regionally recruited doctoral students and two nationally recruited postdoctoral fellows (one supported by the U54 award, an additional postdoctoral fellow supported by pledged institutional funds), in 3-year appointments, the Engagement Core serves to connect trainees with opportunities for experiential learning embedded within community organizations, helping them learn how to foster relationships with them. A novel aspect of the CEC is its creation of a new Community Action Workshop series to foster conducting community research and a new Grantsmanship Workshop for trainees and community organization staff to train together for synergy and fostering collaborations. The grant training will be structured and scheduled around RFAs launched by the Development Core, for which they will help teach. Leaders of the Research and Methodology Core will also provide support for instruction for the new grantsmanship workshop, as well as providing guidance and support for trainee project data collection and analysis. Trainees will build their mentored research projects around the two research projects of the center (BB and ALAC).

癌症预防和控制领域已经发展，但是，专门从事在服务不足的社区与持续贫困作斗争的癌症预防的训练有素和经验丰富的研究人员，特别是那些受过多学科合作培训的人员，仍然太少，无法充分推进癌症预防和控制的最新技术水平。我们的总体目标是在美国培养早期职业调查人员，加入能够有目的地领导癌症预防和控制/人口科学多个方面的关键研究工作的学者队伍。这种培训对于在服务不足的环境中成功研究和实施卫生计划和实践至关重要，并且在癌症研究培训中往往不强调，或者在癌症预防和控制的广泛计划中没有足够的细节。在这样的职业道路上取得长期成功还需要职业导航，韧性和职业生涯的持续性，可以通过正规培训，导师指定的导师和榜样，这将是职业提升核心（CEC）的一部分，并在整个拟议的中心转型社区驱动的研究，以预防肥胖相关的癌症培养技能。职业提升核心（CEC）的具体目标是（1）招募，选择和培训高绩效的早期职业科学家，在服务不足的社区，特别是在持续贫困地区领导癌症预防研究;（2）在各种癌症预防学科提供指导研究培训经验;（3）制定多学科癌症课程，重点是持续贫困的驱动因素及其影响，社区环境中使用的研究方法，以及该领域专业人员的职业发展;以及（4）评估该计划的有效性并随时间跟踪受训者。CEC利用其与两个研究项目（Brighter Bites;癌症后积极生活）和其他核心的整合，包括由BeWell基础设施资助的活动。对于两名区域招聘的博士生和两名全国招聘的博士后研究员（一名由U 54奖支持，另一名由承诺的机构资金支持的博士后研究员），在3年的任命中，参与核心服务于将学员与嵌入社区组织的体验式学习机会联系起来，帮助他们学习如何与他们建立关系。CEC的一个新方面是创建了一个新的社区行动研讨会系列，以促进开展社区研究，并为受训人员和社区组织工作人员创建了一个新的Graniton研讨会，以共同培训协同作用和促进合作。赠款培训将围绕发展核心发起的RFAs进行组织和安排，他们将帮助教学。研究和方法核心的领导者还将为新的granitarian研讨会的教学提供支持，并为学员项目数据收集和分析提供指导和支持。学员将围绕中心的两个研究项目（BB和ALAC）建立他们的指导研究项目。