PROMOTING ETHNIC DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH TRAINING

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请延续先前资助的博士研究教育计划，促进公共卫生培训中的种族多样性。该项目仍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）进行。该项目继续将重点放在培养传统上代表性不足的种族/族裔群体（即非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔美国人和美洲印第安人）的学生上。该计划将采用三种具体机制来实现这一目标。首先，UMSPH的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。第二，该项目将开展更多有针对性的招聘和推广活动，包括以传统黑人学院和大学、西班牙裔服务机构和部落学院为重点，以建立一个多样化的潜在学员库。第三，为了与IMSD的宗旨保持一致，该方案的选拔委员会将在其审议中强调从传统上在公共卫生领域代表性不足的种族/族裔群体中确定学生的重要性。IMSD项目将特别努力确保少数民族学生的参与，这些学生的文化和教育背景往往限制了他们从事与健康有关的研究事业的能力。被UMSPH博士课程录取的学生将有资格被提名为IMSD的一个名额。入选的IMSD学生将被任命为带薪研究生研究助理。所有IMSD学生都将与负责实践指导和指导的教师相匹配。除了研究技能外，该项目还将继续关注写作和公共演讲技能的发展。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研究报告，并在第二年发表正式的完善报告。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继续发展，该教育项目将：1)每年资助8名博士生；2)支持学生至少两年（根据资金的可用性，可能是第三年）；3)与密歇根州新成立的国家机构多样性中心建立合作关系；4)与新成立的密歇根健康差异综合方法研究中心建立伙伴关系，该中心包括杰克逊心脏研究和美国黑人生活全国调查研究项目；与密歇根临床与健康研究所健康差异研究项目合作，并与新资助的Men4Health研究合作；5)与澳大研究生院的优秀奖学金竞争协调，以便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习与教学研究中心（CRLT）处理。

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.