My Home, My Health: Place-Based Public Health Resources for Rural Educators

项目总结/摘要 我的家，我的健康：农村基于场所的公共卫生资源 教育工作者将通过吸引农村服务不足的青年， 非正式教育者的教学技能，并利用蒙大拿州国立卫生研究院的专业知识和研究， 支持科学家。蒙大拿州立大学与三所部落学院合作--萨利希·库特奈 学院，黑脚社区学院，和首席钝刀学院-和蒙大拿州的研究人员 IDEA生物医学研究卓越网络（INBRE）将建立一个模型，说明INBRE网络如何 培训他们的研究人员与他们所服务的社区一起制作外展工具包，以达到服务不足的目的 青年此外，该项目将利用NIH资助的 美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民临床和转化研究计划（AI/AN CTRP）。我的家我的 健康将创建一系列动手，基于场所的活动包，将侧重于广泛的定义， 疾病生态学包括非生物条件与多种 病原体和宿主在整个生态系统中相互作用。该项目解决了NIH的目标，即“培养一个 更好地了解生物医学，行为和临床研究及其影响”，通过参与 社区创建与区域相关的实践活动，这将有助于吸引服务不足的受众 为青年提供获得和实践与生物科学专业相关的STEM技能的机会， 并加强教育工作者的专业发展。项目团队将寻找 实践，以改善STEM学习成果，可以衡量，复制和传播。的 该项目包括INBRE部落学院的研究人员和三个有针对性的课后计划教育工作者。 社区：北方夏延，黑脚和平头保留地。《我的家，我的健康》 30名INBRE研究人员（本科生，研究生和教师）在科学传播和 开展外联活动，使他们能够帮助设计和试用这些工具包。项目组还将培训50名非正式 来自蒙大拿州各地的教育工作者如何使用该项目的教训，这将提高教育工作者的 内容包括疾病生态学知识。该项目总共将影响2 260名青年、50名教育工作者和30名 早期的职业生涯和建立的研究人员。在SEPA拨款完成后，项目模型将 最终成为蒙大拿州INBRE未来培训和推广的一部分，有50名INBRE研究人员 每年夏天参加。INBRE将使用这些工具包，并将其借给全州的教育工作者， 创造新的工具包。该项目团队包括两名有色人种女性PI， 来自五个部落的美国人担任工作人员和/或顾问。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The proposed project, My Home, My Health: Place-Based Public Health Resources for Rural Educators, will address future bioscience workforce needs by engaging rural underserved youth, improving the teaching skills of informal educators, and leveraging the expertise and research of Montana's NIH- supported scientists. Montana State University in partnership with three tribal colleges -- Salish Kootenai College, Blackfeet Community College, and Chief Dull Knife College -- and researchers of the Montana IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), will build a model for how INBRE networks can train their researchers to create outreach kits with the communities they serve in order to reach underserved youth. Additionally, the project will draw upon the expertise and community contacts of the NIH-funded American Indian / Alaska Native Clinical & Translational Research Program (AI/AN CTRP). My Home, My Health will create a series of hands-on, place-based activity kits that will focus on a broad definition of disease ecology encompassing multidimensional picture of the interplay of abiotic conditions with multiple pathogens and hosts interacting within a whole ecosystem. The project addresses the NIH goal to "foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research and its implications" by engaging communities to create regionally relevant hands-on activities that will help to attract underserved audiences to STEM, give youth the opportunity to gain and practice STEM skills relevant to bioscience professions, and enhance educator professional development. The project team will be searching for exemplary practices to improve STEM learning outcomes that can be measured, replicated and disseminated. The project includes INBRE tribal college researchers and afterschool program educators in three targeted communities: The Northern Cheyenne, Blackfeet and Flathead Reservations. My Home, My Health will train 30 INBRE researchers (undergrads, graduate students, and faculty) in science communication and outreach so they can help design and pilot the kits with youth. The project team will also train 50 informal educators from around Montana in how to use the project's lessons, which will improve the educators' content knowledge of disease ecology. In total, the project will impact 2,260 youth, 50 educators and 30 early-career and established researchers. After the SEPA grant is completed, the project model will ultimately become part of Montana INBRE's future training and outreach with 50 INBRE researchers participating each summer. INBRE will use and lend out the kits to educators around the state and continue to create new kits. The project team includes two PIs that are women of color and there are six Native Americans from five tribes acting as staff and/or advisors.