BP-ENDURE: Brooklyn Neural NETS (Neuroscience Education and Training for Scientists)

在考虑种族和族裔群体之间不平等的护理和治疗给社会带来的成本和负担时，培训多样化的神经科学工作人员来解决健康差距至关重要。许多报告将社会经济和种族差异与脑疾病和残疾的频率，护理和严重程度联系起来，包括中风，神经退行性疾病，癫痫，成瘾，创伤性脑损伤和心理障碍。布鲁克林区拥有超过260万人口，是美国最多样化的城市社区之一。纽约市立大学布鲁克林学院（BC），纽约州立大学Downstate医学中心（Downstate）和纽约市立大学的Medgar Evers College（MEC）位于布鲁克林的一个地区，彼此相距不到几英里，那里的人口绝大多数是代表性不足的群体：50%的人口主要由来自西印度群岛和非洲-加勒比背景的黑人居民组成，12%是西班牙裔，也是加勒比血统。我们的机构将合作开发一个以神经科学为重点的教育和研究议程，从基本的神经过程到认知和行为神经科学，包括将研究员介绍给健康差距的社会经济学和与少数民族社区神经健康和疾病相关的公共卫生问题。我们的计划，BP- ENDURE：Brooklyn Neural NETS（神经科学教育和培训科学家）或B-NETS旨在为那些对需要博士或MD/PhD学位的神经科学职业感兴趣的合格的代表性不足（UR）的大三和大四学生做好准备。这些人将增加神经科学研究人员的多样性，并贡献研究成果，有助于解决少数民族和低收入人群中更频繁发生的慢性神经系统疾病，包括我们学生生活和学习的参与机构的集水区。作为一个紧密团结的财团，并利用先前成功的跨机构合作，B-NETS将有经验，科学专业知识，评估机构需求和动机，为来自UR背景的高年级本科生开发一个高效的BP-ENDURE计划。拟议的B-NETS计划将通过在BC创建一个完整的神经科学专业和在MEC扩展神经科学课程来实现发展神经科学研究教育计划的目标。所有三个B-NETS合作机构的高级管理层都优先考虑STEM多样性计划和增加教师多样性，并全力支持B- NETS计划。我们的许多UR本科生，包括一些像MARC和RISE计划，表达了成为大学教师和作为UR本科生像自己一样的研究导师的目标-一个重要的管道，以增加UR教师的池的大小。B-NETS计划的创新方面包括基础神经科学，行为神经科学，社区参与的研究和神经科学研究的杰出深度的融合，以培养一批新的多样化神经科学研究人员。

Training a diverse neuroscience workforce to address health disparities is critical when considering the cost and burden on society of unequal care and treatment among racial and ethnic groups. Numerous reports link socioeconomic and ethnic disparities to the frequency, care, and severity of brain disorders and disabilities including stroke, neurodegenerative disease, epilepsy, addiction, traumatic brain injury, and psychological disorders. The Borough of Brooklyn has a population of over 2.6 million, one of the most diverse urban communities in the nation. Brooklyn College (BC) of City University of New York (CUNY), State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (Downstate), and Medgar Evers College (MEC) of CUNY are located within a few miles of each other in a part of Brooklyn that is overwhelmingly populated by under-represented groups: 50% of the population is comprised of Black residents primarily from West Indian and Afro-Caribbean backgrounds, and 12% is Hispanic, also of Caribbean origins. Our institutions will partner to develop a neuroscience-focused educational and research agenda ranging from basic neural processes to cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, including the introduction of Fellows to the socioeconomics of health disparities and public health issues related to neurological health and disease in minority communities. Our program, BP- ENDURE: Brooklyn Neural NETS (Neuroscience Education and Training for Scientists) or B-NETS, is intended to prepare well-qualified underrepresented (UR) juniors and seniors who are interested in careers in the neurosciences requiring PhD or MD/PhD degrees. Such individuals will both increase the diversity of researchers in neuroscience and contribute research findings that can help to address chronic neurological conditions that occur more frequently in minority and low-income populations, including the catchment area of the participating institutions where our students live and study. Working as a tightly knit consortium and exploiting prior successful cross-institution collaborations, B-NETS will have the experience, scientific expertise, assessed institutional need, and motivation to develop a highly effective BP-ENDURE program for upper division undergraduate students from UR backgrounds. The proposed B-NETS program will meet the goal of developing neuroscience research education programs by creating a full neuroscience major at BC and an expanded neuroscience curriculum at MEC. The senior administration of all three B-NETS partner institutions has prioritized STEM diversity programs and increasing faculty diversity and fully supports the B- NETS program. Many of our UR undergraduates, including some in programs like MARC and RISE, express the goal of becoming college faculty and serving as research mentors for UR undergraduates like themselves – a vital pipeline to increase the size of the pool of UR faculty. Innovative aspects of the B-NETS program include the blending of basic neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, community-engaged research and an outstanding depth in neuroscience research to develop a new cohort of diverse neuroscience researchers.