Short Courses for Teaching Gene-Environment Interactions with a focus on Environmental Justice Communities

教授基因与环境相互作用的短期课程，重点关注环境正义社区

• 批准号: 10693955
• 负责人: Kathleen Mead Vandiver
• 金额: $ 21.56万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10693955
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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT There is a dramatic decline in the US on environmental health education and this is particularly noticeable in the training of health professionals. This MIT program in collaboration with peer P30 centers at NYU and UNM, will address health professionals’ need for training in genomics and environmental health with a one-week Short Course on gene-environment interactions. Two Short Courses will be taught each summer over the grant cycle with rural Tribal Colleges, serving the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes (CRST) in South Dakota, and the Nursing Students at Ramapo College serving the Ramapough Lenape Tribe in New Jersey. Also, an online evening course will be piloted for working nurses in the Dakotas. Providing such learning opportunities for nurses that work primarily with Indigenous populations and/or environmental justice communities will significantly contribute to building community public health in vulnerable populations. Teaching gene-environment interactions requires foundational familiarity with molecular biology and instructing the course participants on how to communicate this fundamental knowledge is an important skill learned in this short course. The participants will start each day with a lecture/discussion on a pre-selected, community-relevant environmental health topic. Lectures will be followed by a unique hands-on program using MIT-patented DNA and Protein models and pre- and post- tests will be used to measure participant learning gains. Each topical lecture will reinforce the hands-on molecular biology sessions, demonstrating specific applications for Environmental Justice Communities. Importantly, the skills of communicating gene-environmental concepts learned from the MIT Edgerton Center DNA Kit and Protein Kit to colleagues and community members will be practiced using different skill sets and critiqued during the short course. Training from these Short Courses will help participants communicate difficult topics including environmental exposures that cause genetic changes and protein responses. Short Course participants will develop an expanded skill set to understand and practice gene-environment interactions through examples, and will generate a health messaging product on a topic of their own choosing in environmental health to demonstrate skills gained in communication. A follow up study (3 months later) will be conducted to collect feedback on how participants have utilized their new knowledge about gene-environment interactions and communication skills. The proposed courses will fill a much-needed gap in health care professional training that has the potential to bring awareness and enhance quality of life to communities who need it the most.

项目摘要/摘要 美国的环境健康教育急剧下降，这在美国尤其明显。 培训卫生专业人员。麻省理工学院与纽约大学和UNM的P30中心合作， 解决卫生专业人员在基因组学和环境健康方面的培训需求， 基因与环境相互作用课程。两个短期课程将教每年夏天在赠款周期 与农村部落学院，服务于南达科他州的夏延河苏族部落（CRST），和护理 在新泽西的拉马波学院为拉马波勒纳佩部落服务的学生。同时，一个在线晚会 该课程将在达喀尔为在职护士试行。为护士提供学习机会， 主要与土著居民和/或环境正义社区合作将大大有助于 在弱势群体中建立社区公共卫生。教授基因-环境相互作用需要 基本熟悉分子生物学，并指导课程参与者如何沟通 这些基本知识是本短期课程中学习的重要技能。参与者将每天开始 与预先选定的，与社区相关的环境健康主题的讲座/讨论。讲座将 随后是一个独特的动手程序，使用麻省理工学院专利的DNA和蛋白质模型和前后测试 将用于衡量参与者的学习收益。每个专题讲座将加强动手分子 生物学课程，展示环境正义社区的具体应用。重要的是 从麻省理工学院埃杰顿中心DNA试剂盒学到的基因-环境概念的交流技巧， 将使用不同的技能组合进行练习，并在 短期课程。这些短期课程的培训将帮助参与者交流困难的主题，包括 环境暴露导致基因变化和蛋白质反应。短期课程参与者将 通过实例开发扩展的技能，以理解和实践基因-环境相互作用， 将根据他们自己选择的环境健康主题制作一个健康信息产品， 在沟通中获得的技能。将进行一项随访研究（3个月后），以收集关于如何 参与者利用了他们关于基因-环境相互作用的新知识和沟通技巧。 拟议的课程将填补医疗保健专业培训中急需的空白， 提高最需要的社区的认识，提高他们的生活质量。