Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities in Research (LEAD)

项目摘要 拟议的培训计划，题为“培训领导人，以加速全球心理健康的差距， 研究”项目将提供少数民族健康和健康差距研究方面的培训， 全球心理健康差距的报告LEAD是一个2阶段的培训计划，专为先进的博士前 来自美国不同背景的学生和博士后学员，包括在美国代表性不足的群体。 生物医学，行为，临床和社会科学研究，对全球心理健康差异感兴趣 research.学员将从美国各地的大学招募，并将接受12- 周节目具体而言，LEAD将利用美国地方和全球健康差距的丰富资源 （包括心理健康），为学员提供领导所需的技能和经验， 多学科的合作研究小组，专注于低资源地区的健康差异研究 社区. LEAD的具体目标如下：1：招募五组晚期MD患者， 来自美国代表性不足群体的博士生（每组7人）和博士后研究员（每组1人） 致力于开展健康差异研究，特别关注全球心理健康预防， 在资源有限的情况下进行干预、服务和实施研究; 2： 研究培训计划，为学员提供基本的全球研究技能和知识 通过体验式学习，指导，“动手”沉浸在国内和国际心理健康 研究、个性化咨询、反馈、目标设定和监测以及基于网络的支持; 3：推进美国大学，导师和对全球感兴趣的学员之间的研究伙伴关系 全球南方大学和撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）学员的心理健康差异 4：评价环境与发展领导方案培训的短期和纵向成果 程序.具体而言，第一阶段将包括在密苏里州圣路易斯的华盛顿大学（WU）学习4周， 有针对性的技能和知识建设教学研讨会加上实地研究的经验，在圣。 路易斯社区第二阶段将在撒哈拉以南八个非洲国家中的一个选定的全球地点进行为期8周的培训， (SSA)国家与国家卫生研究院资助的研究，满足学员的研究兴趣。每年，一 博士后领导研究员将经历上述阶段1和2，并立即过渡到9个月 在WU的奖学金每个实习生（博士前和博士后）将与一个美国和一个 基于SSA的导师，他们都将提供技术，研究为重点的支持，加上持续的职业生涯 发展指导和支持。LEAD直接与NIMHD支持研究培训的目标相一致 为来自不同背景的个人开展的少数民族健康和健康差异研究活动， 培养和扩大少数群体健康和健康差距研究人员和倡导者的社区。

PROJECT ABSTRACT The proposed training program, entitled “Training LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities Research” (LEAD), will provide training in minority health and health disparities research, with a strong focus on global mental health disparities. LEAD is a 2-Phase Training Program designed for advanced predoctoral students and postdoctoral trainees from diverse backgrounds in the US, including groups underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical and social sciences research, interested in global mental health disparities research. Trainees will be recruited from Universities across the US and will be trained over an intensive 12- week program. Specifically, LEAD will capitalize on the rich resources for US local and global health disparities (including mental health) available at WU, to provide trainees with the skills and experiences needed to lead multi-disciplinary, collaborative research teams focused on health disparities research in low-resource communities. LEAD is guided by the following specific aims: 1: To recruit five cohorts of advanced MD and PhD students (7 per cohort) and postdoctoral fellows (1 per cohort) from underrepresented groups in the US committed to conducting health disparities research, with a specific focus on global mental health prevention, intervention, services and implementation research within resource constrained settings; 2: To provide a research training program which equips trainees with foundational global research skills and knowledge through experiential learning, mentoring, “hands-on” immersion in domestic and international mental health studies, individualized consultation, feedback, goal setting and monitoring and web-based support across time; 3: To advance research partnerships between US-universities, mentors and trainees interested in global mental health disparities with the Global South universities and trainees across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) focused on similar issues; and 4: To evaluate the short-term and longitudinal outcomes of LEAD training program. Specifically, Phase 1 will consist of 4 weeks at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (WU) for targeted skills and knowledge-building didactic seminars plus field-based research experiences within the St. Louis community. Phase 2 will consist of 8 weeks in a selected global site in one of the eight sub-Saharan (SSA) countries with NIH funded research that meets a trainee's research interest. Each year, one postdoctoral LEAD fellow will experience Phases 1 and 2 above and immediately transition into a 9-month fellowship at WU. Each trainee (predoctoral and postdoctoral) will be matched with one US-based and one SSA-based mentor, both of whom will provide technical, research-focused support, plus ongoing career development guidance and support. LEAD directly aligns with NIMHD's goal of supporting research training activities in minority health and health disparities research for individuals from diverse backgrounds as well as cultivating and expanding the community of minority health and health disparities researchers and advocates.