Brown NIMHD Minority Health & Health Disparities International Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：布朗大学全球健康倡议要求为布朗大学少数民族健康和健康差异国际研究培训补助金（Brown MHIRT）提供支持。该计划的目标是通过提供全球健康计划和全球健康研究方面的接触和培训，指导来自代表性不足社区的本科生和研究生从事生物医学科学的职业。目前，布朗大学全球健康倡议（GHI）资助20名本科生和研究生参与全球医疗服务不足社区的全球健康研究。GHI包括在全球背景下审查文化能力、临床研究、安全性、国际研究合作的性质和生物医学伦理的培训计划。全球健康倡议还赞助一年一度的全球健康研究日，为学生提供展示其全球健康研究的场所。这一拟议方案将使全球健康倡议能够支持来自代表性不足的社区的另外10名学员（8名本科生和2名研究生），他们已经完成了至少两年的医学、公共卫生或社会和行为健康科学相关专业的课程。这个拟议的项目还将支持在暑期全球卫生浸入式学习之前开设一门完整的全球卫生课程，并在暑期全球卫生浸入式学习之后指导与健康有关的研究。这10名受训者将与目前由全球健康倡议支持的20名学生一起参加。12名在全球健康研究方面有着良好记录的布朗大学教师将在包括肯尼亚、加纳、印度、菲律宾、中国和乌克兰在内的7个全球地点指导这些学生。他们还将有来自这些国家的现场导师。这个机会也将使布朗大学扩大与密西西比州杰克逊历史悠久的黑人学院图加卢学院（Tougaloo College） 49年的合作关系。四十多年来，图加卢学院和布朗大学一直在合作，为来自代表性不足的背景的本科生，特别是非洲裔美国人，增加受教育的机会。(1)每年将有两名Tougaloo学员参加这一培训的各个方面，包括完全认可的远程学习课程、10周的全球卫生体验以及实地体验后为期一年的强化指导期。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Brown University Global Health Initiative requests support for the Brown University Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Grant (Brown MHIRT). The goal of this proposed program is to mentor undergraduates and graduate students from underrepresented communities to pursue careers in biomedical sciences by providing exposure and training in global health programs and global health research. Currently, the Brown University Global Health Initiative (GHI) sponsors 20 undergraduate and graduate students to participate in global health research in medically underserved communities around the world. GHI includes an orientation program that reviews cultural competence, clinical research, safety, the nature of international research collaborations, and biomedical ethics in global context. GHI also sponsors a yearly global health research day to provide a venue for students to present their global health research. This proposed program will allow the Global Health Initiative to support an additional 10 trainees from underrepresented communities (8 undergraduate students and 2 graduate students) who have completed at least two years of coursework in a major related to medicine, public health or social and behavioral health sciences. This proposed project will also support development of a full course in global health prior to the summer immersion in global health and mentoring in health-related research after the summer immersion in global health. These 10 trainees will participate with the 20 students who are currently supported through the Global Health Initiative. 12 Brown faculty members with strong track records in global health research will mentor these students at seven global sites, including Kenya, Ghana, India, the Philippines, China and Ukraine. They will also have on site mentors from these countries. This opportunity will also allow Brown to expand its 49-year partnership with the Historically Black College, Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. Tougaloo College and Brown University have worked collaboratively for over four decades to enhance the educational opportunities for undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds, particularly African Americans. (1) Two Tougaloo trainees will participate in all aspects of this training each year, including the fully accredited course using distance learning, the 10 week global health experience, and the year-long intensive mentoring period after the field experience.