PROMOTING ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING

描述(申请人提供)：该申请延续了之前资助的博士生研究教育项目，促进公共卫生培训中的种族多样性。该项目仍然保留在密歇根大学公共卫生学院(UMSPH)的种族、文化和健康研究中心(CRECH)。该计划继续以培训来自传统上代表性不足的种族/民族群体(即非裔美国人、拉丁裔和美国印第安人)的学生为中心。该计划将采用三种具体机制来实现这一目标。首先，UMSPH教育计划将保持其实质性的重点，只支持那些对种族和民族健康差异研究感兴趣的学生。其次，该计划将建立更多有针对性的招聘和外联，包括专注于历史上的黑人学院和大学、西班牙裔服务机构和部落学院的努力，以建立一个多样化的潜在受训者池。第三，为了与国际管理学院的宗旨保持一致，该项目的遴选委员会将在审议过程中强调识别来自种族/民族群体的学生的重要性，这些群体在公共卫生方面历来代表不足。IMSD项目将特别努力确保少数族裔学生的参与，这些学生往往来自文化和教育背景，这些背景限制了他们在与健康相关的研究中追求研究生涯的能力。被UMSPH博士生录取的学生将有资格获得IMSD的其中一个名额的提名。获选的IMSD学生将获委任为受薪研究生研究助理。所有IMSD学生都将与负责实践教学和辅导的教职员工配对。除了研究技能外，该计划还将继续专注于写作和公开演讲技能的发展。为此，所有IMSD学生必须参加博士研讨会，在那里他们被要求在第一年发表一份研究报告，并在第二年进行一次正式的润色报告。学生还将接受负责任的研究行为方面的培训。为了在前两个资助期的成功基础上再接再厉，该教育计划将：1)每年支持8名博士生；2)支持学生至少两年(根据资金的可获得性，可能再支持第三年)；3)与密歇根州新的国家机构多样性中心建立伙伴关系；4)与新成立的密歇根州健康差距综合方法中心建立伙伴关系，其中包括杰克逊心脏研究和黑人美国人全国生活调查；与密歇根州临床和健康研究所健康差距研究计划以及新资助的Men4Health Study建立合作伙伴关系；5)协调密歇根大学研究生院的优秀奖学金竞赛，为学生提供最多三年的额外资助。IMSD项目的独立评估将由学与教研究中心(CRLT)负责。 与公共卫生有关：尽管许多严重的健康问题在少数族裔群体中发生的比例不成比例，但在公共卫生学院的终身教职教师中，少数族裔的代表不足。如何最好地解决健康状况和医疗保健方面的种族和民族差异是公共卫生研究人员面临的一个重要问题。密歇根大学公共卫生学院种族、文化和健康研究中心(CRECH)提出了一个IMSD研究教育项目，致力于开发可行的方法，使学生做好准备，以满足文化多元化社会的公共卫生需求。这一博士研究教育计划的主要目标是增加从事减少和消除健康方面种族和民族差异的研究的学生数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application continues the previously funded doctoral research education program, Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training. The program remains in the University of Michigan School of Public Health's (UMSPH) Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH). The program continues its central focus on training students from traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic groups (i.e., African American, Latino, and American Indian). The program will employ three specific mechanisms to accomplish this goal. First, the UMSPH education program will maintain its substantive focus on supporting only those students interested in research on racial and ethnic health disparities. Second, the program will institute additional targeted recruitment and outreach, including efforts focused on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges in order to build a diverse pool of potential trainees. Third, in keeping with the purpose of the IMSD, the program's selection committee will in its deliberations emphasize the importance of identifying students from racial/ ethnic groups which have been traditionally underrepresented in public health. The IMSD program will make a special effort to ensure participation by minority students who often are from cultural and educational backgrounds that have inhibited their ability to pursue research careers in health-related research. Students admitted to one of the UMSPH doctoral programs will be eligible to be nominated for one of the IMSD slots. Selected IMSD students will be appointed as paid graduate research assistants. All IMSD students will be matched with faculty who will be responsible for hands-on instruction and mentoring. The program will continue to focus on the development of writing and public speaking skills in addition to research skills. To this end, all IMSD students must enroll in the doctoral seminar where they are required to deliver a research presentation their first year and a formal polished presentation in their second year. Students will also be exposed to training in the responsible conduct of research. In order to build upon the success of the first two funding periods, the educational program will: 1) support eight doctoral students each year; 2) support students for a minimum of two years (with the possibility of a third year depending upon availability of funds; 3) establish a partnership with the Michigan's new National Center for Institutional Diversity; 4) establish partnership with the new Michigan Center for Integrative Approaches to Health Disparities which includes the Jackson Heart Study and the Program for Research on Black Americans' National Survey of American Life; partner with the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research Health Disparities Research Program, and with the newly funded Men4Health Study; 5) coordinate with the UM graduate school's merit fellowship competition in order to offer students up to three additional years of funding. The independent evaluation of the IMSD program will be handled by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). Public health relevance: Despite the fact that many serious health conditions occur disproportionately among ethnic minority groups, minorities are underrepresented among tenure-track faculty in schools of public health. How best to address racial and ethnic disparities in health status and medical care is an important problem facing public health researchers. The University of Michigan School of Public Health's Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH), proposes an IMSD research education program dedicated to developing viable approaches to preparing students to meet the public health needs of a culturally diverse society. The primary goal of this doctoral research education program is to increase the number of students conducting research on the reduction and elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health.