THE MICHIGAN BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE PROGRAM

描述（由申请人提供）：许多重要的健康问题不成比例地发生在少数民族中，学术公共卫生在解决种族健康差异方面可发挥重要作用。不幸的是，少数民族学生在公共卫生学院的博士课程中所占比例不足。因此，密歇根大学公共卫生学院（UMSPH）为了增加URM（非裔美国人、拉丁裔美国人和美洲印第安人）学生的数量，准备参加公共卫生博士培训的竞争，正在提交这份申请，以回应美国国立卫生研究院的博士学位公告。具体来说，UMSPH将与东密歇根大学、莫尔豪斯医学院和德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校的硕士项目建立合作关系。拟议中的“密歇根通往博士学位的桥梁项目”将每年资助6名学生（每个合作伙伴两名）（两年的学费和工资），到项目第二年达到12名学生的稳定状态。桥梁项目的学生将在学年期间被任命为各自机构的研究助理。学生还将参加Bridges综合研讨会（使用录像带讲座和基于网络的“Worktools”项目相结合），在那里他们将被介绍公共卫生的五个核心领域和重要的实质性公共卫生问题，以及关于毕业生职业发展的建议。在第一年和第二年硕士培训之间的夏季，桥的学生将在安娜堡与UMSPH的教师一起进行两个月的研究，并在大学间政治和社会研究联盟学习生物统计学的高级课程。在密歇根大学夏季结束时，学生们将被送到塔斯基吉大学国家研究与卫生保健生物伦理学中心，参加为期一周的关于负责任研究行为的密集系列讲座。其目标是每年招收至少33%（每年6名中的2名）的桥梁项目学生攻读UMSPH博士课程。密歇根大学研究生院将保证为攻读博士学位的学生提供五年的资助（学费、工资和健康福利）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Many important health problems occur disproportionately among ethnic minorities and academic public health has an important role to play in addressing ethnic health disparities. Unfortunately, ethnic minority students are underrepresented in doctoral programs in schools of public health. Therefore, the University of Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH), in order to increase the pool of URM (African American, Latino, and American Indian) students ready to compete for doctoral training in Public Health, is submitting this application in response to the NIH Bridges to the Doctoral Degree announcement. Specifically, the UMSPH will establish partnerships with Master's programs from Eastern Michigan University, the Morehouse School of Medicine, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. The proposed "Michigan Bridge to the Doctorate Program" will support six (two per partner) students each year (tuition and wages for two years) reaching a steady state of twelve students by the second year of the program. Bridges students will be appointed as research assistants at their respective institutions during the academic year. Students will also participate in the Bridges Integrative Seminar (using a combination of video-taped lectures and a web-based program, "Worktools") where they will be introduced to the five core areas of Public Health and important substantive public health issues as well as advice on graduate career development. During the summer between the first and second year of masters training Bridges students will spend two months in Ann Arbor conducting research with UMSPH faculty and taking advanced courses in biostatistics at the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. At the end of the Michigan summer, students will be sent to the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care for an intensive one-week series of lectures on the conduct of responsible research. The objective is to enroll at least 33% (two of six each year) of the Bridges students in PhD programs at the UMSPH each year. Bridges students who matriculate to one of the five doctoral programs located in the UMSPH will be guaranteed five years of funding (tuition, salary, and health benefits) by Michigan's Graduate School to support work toward the PhD.