Project Pipeline Baltimore: A Brain Sciences Program for High School Students

巴尔的摩项目管道：针对高中生的脑科学项目

• 批准号: 9242076
• 负责人: AMANDA MARIA BROWN
• 金额: $ 10.71万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-08 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9242076
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adult; Affect; African American; Aging; American; Area; Attention; Baltimore; Basic Science; Behavioral Sciences; Brain; Career Choice; Cessation of life; Child; Cities; Clinic; Clinical Research; Communities; Critical Thinking; Data; Diagnosis; Disease Progression; District of Columbia; Educational Intervention; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Faculty; Goals; HIV; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Hispanics; Human; Immersion Investigative Technique; Individual; Influentials; Internships; Interruption; Knowledge; Locales; Measures; Medical; Medicine; Mental Health; Mental disorders; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Morbidity - disease rate; Motivation; National Institute of Mental Health; Neurologic; Neurologist; Neurosciences; Periodicity; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Psychiatrist; Race; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; STEM field; Schools; Science; Scientist; Societies; Strategic Planning; Students; Training; Underrepresented Students; United States; Update; Youth; brain behavior; brain health; brain research; career; college; disability; elementary school; eleventh grade; ethnic minority population; experience; feeding; graduate student; hands on research; health science research; high school; high school program; male; medical schools; member; mental development; metropolitan; mortality; nervous system disorder; outreach; preempt; premature; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; retention rate; skills; success; summer research; therapy development; tool; undergraduate student; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With an estimated thirteen-million American adults and children afflicted, mental health disorders are a leading cause of disability in the United States often leading to premature death. Research aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms involved in the development of mental health disorders, as well as better tools to identify those at risk, and therapies and approaches to alleviate suffering are urgently needed. Success in this endeavor requires harnessing the human potential of all citizens of the USA. Currently, diversity within HIV- related and other neurological and mental health sciences is extremely low. At the other spectrum, ethnic minorities remain disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and more effort must be made to engage members of these communities in the scientific enterprise, medicine, and mental health and behavioral sciences. Seventy-five percent of college students in STEM fields decide in high school to study science. Therefore, targeting students at this early stage has the potential to have a large measureable positive impact on feeding the neuroscience and mental health pipeline with qualified clinician/scientists from diverse backgrounds. We believe the herein described program could fill a critical gap in the brain sciences pipeline by attracting bright under-represented students in Baltimore city and the surrounding metropolitan area at the very earliest stages when they are making critical career pathway choices. Our overall hypothesis is that provided with the right pre-college exposure, bright, intelligent, academically capable under-represented students educated in Baltimore City public schools can successfully complete an advanced degree in a science/medicine career tract. Through an 8-week summer internship program at the Johns Hopkins Medical campus, interns will gain critical thinking skills and employ the scientific method in the responsible conduct of research. Interns will gain knowledge about many fields of brain sciences and mental health through seminars, grand rounds, and clinic shadowing. Interns will gain skills in professionalism through mirroring, mentoring, and enrichment activities where they will have discussions and interactions with Hopkins faculty, undergraduates, graduates and postdoctoral fellows. Through these means interns will gain knowledge about a variety of career paths in science and medicine. Special attention will be given to under-represented male students at the elementary school level through outreach seminars. Through tangible one-to-one connections, best served by a small, high-impact program providing direct mentoring, opportunities to shadow neurologists and psychiatrists in the clinic, and hands-on basic and clinical research experiences, we can reprogram the mindset and expand the horizon of possibilities for a career in brain and mental health sciences for these youth. Indeed, our preliminary data suggests that this goal is feasible.

描述（由申请人提供）：估计有1300万美国成年人和儿童受到折磨，精神健康障碍是美国残疾的主要原因，通常导致过早死亡。迫切需要开展研究，以了解心理健康障碍发展的基本机制，以及更好的工具，以确定那些处于危险之中的人，以及减轻痛苦的治疗和方法。这一奋进的成功需要利用美国所有公民的潜力。目前，艾滋病毒相关科学和其他神经和心理健康科学的多样性极低。在另一方面，少数民族仍然不成比例地受到艾滋病毒/艾滋病的影响，必须作出更多努力，使这些社区的成员参与科学企业，医学，心理健康和行为科学。在STEM领域，75%的大学生在高中时决定学习科学。因此，在这个早期阶段瞄准学生有可能对来自不同背景的合格临床医生/科学家喂养神经科学和心理健康管道产生巨大的可衡量的积极影响。我们相信，本文所述的计划可以填补脑科学管道的关键空白，通过吸引巴尔的摩市和周边大都市地区的优秀代表不足的学生，在他们做出关键职业道路选择的最早阶段。我们的总体假设是，在巴尔的摩市公立学校接受教育的聪明、聪明、学术能力不足的学生，如果有正确的大学前接触，可以成功地完成科学/医学职业领域的高级学位。通过在约翰霍普金斯医学院为期8周的暑期实习计划，实习生将获得批判性思维技能，并在负责任的研究行为中采用科学方法。实习生将通过研讨会，大型巡回赛和诊所阴影获得有关脑科学和心理健康许多领域的知识。实习生将通过镜像，指导和丰富活动获得专业技能，他们将与霍普金斯教师，本科生，毕业生和博士后研究员进行讨论和互动。通过这些手段，实习生将获得有关科学和医学的各种职业道路的知识。将通过外联研讨会，特别关注在小学一级代表性不足的男生。通过有形的一对一的连接，最好由一个小的，高影响力的计划提供直接指导，在诊所阴影神经学家和精神病学家的机会，以及动手基础和临床研究经验，我们可以重新编程的心态，并扩大这些年轻人在大脑和心理健康科学职业生涯的可能性。事实上，我们的初步数据表明，这一目标是可行的。