The Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP): Exploring Research Across the Cancer Continuum and into Underserved Communities

癌症研究学者计划 (CRSP)：探索癌症连续体和服务不足社区的研究

• 批准号: 10268515
• 负责人: Melinda Sue ButschKovacic
• 金额: $ 26.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10268515
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Adopted; African American; Attention; Basic Science; Breast; Bronchi; Cancer Biology; Cancer Center; Cancer Etiology; Cancer Patient; Cancer Survivorship; Career Choice; Caring; Cause of Death; Cessation of life; Clinical; Collaborations; Colon; Communication; Communities; Community Networks; Community Outreach; Counseling; Critical Thinking; Cultural Diversity; Dangerousness; Development; Discipline; Discipline of Nursing; Education; Education and Outreach; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Event; Faculty; Fellowship Program; First Generation College Students; Foundations; Funding; Future; Generations; Goals; Grief reaction; Health; Health Professional; Health Promotion; Healthcare; Human; Immersion; Infrastructure; Internships; Investments; Laboratories; Lead; Learning; Life; Lung; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; NCI Scholars Program; Ohio; Oral; Pancreas; Pediatric Hospitals; Play; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Process; Prostate; Public Health; Race; Rectum; Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Self Efficacy; Services; Social Environment; Students; Surveys; Survivors; System; Testing; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; United States; United States Dept. of Health and Human Services; United States National Academy of Sciences; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Work; anticancer research; cancer care; cancer education; cancer prevention; career; cervical and uterine cancer; cohort; community engaged research; cultural competence; early screening; experience; faculty mentor; graduate student; health disparity; health inequalities; implicit bias; improved; innovation; interest; member; men; microaggression; minority health; mortality; notch protein; nutrition; patient population; programs; recruit; responsible research conduct; screening; senior faculty; skills; social; social health determinants; socioeconomics; sound; success; summer internship; supportive environment; survivorship; undergraduate research; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underserved community

Abstract / Summary Cancer is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Lack of access to advances in cancer prevention, early screening, and treatment, particularly in low socioeconomic, underserved communities, are cited as substantial barriers to improving cancer survivorship. Public health experts have indicated that the social environment in which people live, learn, work, and play also contributes to notable cancer health inequities and is among the most important determinants of health throughout life. Overcoming the growing complexity of this problem will require a much larger, diverse, and dedicated workforce. The current pipeline of cancer-focused health care professionals and researchers that understand and manage the impact of these determinants of health and appropriately engage and connect with their target communities and patient populations is dangerously inadequate and likely to widen the gap even further. To address this critical need to expand our future culturally competent, cancer-focused workforce, the University of Cincinnati (UC) and its affiliates collectively seek to establish and support a Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP). Our focus will be on creating unique and inspiring research and educational experiences to qualified undergraduate students of all races and backgrounds from across the nation and to implement a program that greatly increases the number of graduate program matriculants. Important to our success will be CRSP's highly-engaged Cancer Mentor Network (CMN). We are adopting a systems-over-silos approach (i.e., an approach that crosses health care professions and covers the entire spectrum of cancer care built around the CMN including faculty from across the UC Cancer Center and residing at both UC and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Our faculty are focused on topics across the cancer continuum including cancer etiology, prevention/screening/health promotion, clinical cancer research and survivorship. To ensure our Scholars' success, we will: (1) proactively recruit 20-22 outstanding summer scholars, including at least 8 underrepresented minorities, with an interest in cancer research with the established infrastructure of our highly successful Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program; (2) provide training in the essentials of research (e.g., responsible conduct of research, research design, analysis, etc.), the fundamentals of cancer research across the continuum and an understanding of social determinants of health and their impact on cancer inequities; (3) offer research experiences in top-notch cancer laboratories that closely match the Scholars' career interests; (4) actively engage them in a supportive and enthusiastic environment in which they interact professionally and socially with other Scholars, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty; (5) provide innovative education that strengthens academic and professional development to facilitate entry into cancer graduate programs and cancer career pathways; (6) deliver team science, cultural competency, micro-aggression and implicit bias training for the entire CRSP/CMN community; (7) offer community-engaged, immersive, and cancer-focused field experiences to our Scholars and CMN to encourage future community-engaged research, education and outreach; and (8) ensure long-term investment in each Scholar that extends beyond the initial proposed summer funding period. We expect that our program will, if successful, have a payoff of decades of enthusiastic and dedicated cancer researchers for generations to come.

摘要/概要 癌症是美国的主要死亡原因之一。无法获得癌症预防的进展， 筛查和治疗，特别是在社会经济水平低、服务不足的社区，被认为是 提高癌症存活率。公共卫生专家指出，人们生活、学习的社会环境， 工作和娱乐也导致了显著的癌症健康不平等，是健康最重要的决定因素之一。 在生活中。克服这一问题日益复杂，需要一个更大的，多样化的，专门的 劳动力目前以癌症为重点的医疗保健专业人员和研究人员的管道，了解和管理 这些健康决定因素的影响，并适当地与目标社区和患者接触和联系 人口严重不足，可能进一步扩大差距。为了满足这一迫切需要， 未来的文化能力，癌症为重点的劳动力，辛辛那提大学（UC）及其附属机构共同寻求 建立和支持癌症研究学者计划（CRSP）。我们的重点将是创造独特的和鼓舞人心的 研究和教育经验，以合格的本科生的所有种族和背景，从全国各地 并实施一项计划，大大增加研究生课程录取人数。对我们的成功至关重要 CRSP的癌症导师网络（CMN）。我们采用的是系统集成方法（即，一个 跨医疗保健专业的方法，涵盖围绕CMN建立的整个癌症护理范围，包括 来自UC癌症中心的教师，居住在UC和辛辛那提儿童医院医疗中心。我们 教师专注于癌症连续体的主题，包括癌症病因学，预防/筛查/健康促进， 临床癌症研究和生存。为了确保我们的学者成功，我们将：（1）积极招募20-22优秀 夏季学者，包括至少8个代表性不足的少数民族，对癌症研究感兴趣， 我们非常成功的夏季本科生研究奖学金（SURF）计划的基础设施;（2）提供培训 在研究的要点（例如，负责任地进行研究、研究设计、分析等），的基本面 跨连续体的癌症研究和对健康的社会决定因素及其对癌症的影响的理解 （3）提供与学者的职业兴趣密切相关的顶尖癌症实验室的研究经验; (4)积极地让他们参与到一个支持和热情的环境中，在这个环境中，他们可以在专业和社交方面进行互动。 与其他学者，研究生，博士后研究员和初级和高级教师;（5）提供创新教育 加强学术和专业发展，以促进进入癌症研究生课程和癌症职业生涯 途径;（6）为整个团队提供团队科学，文化能力，微攻击和内隐偏见培训 CRSP/CMN社区;（7）为我们的学者提供社区参与，沉浸式和以癌症为重点的实地体验 和CMN，以鼓励未来的社区参与研究，教育和外展;以及（8）确保长期投资 在每个学者，延长超过最初提出的夏季资助期。我们希望我们的计划，如果 成功的，有几十年的回报热情和专门的癌症研究人员为后代。