Training Minorities in Biobehavioral Cancer Research

美国健康基金会癌症中心(AHFCC)，NCI指定的癌症中心，以及纽约城市大学(CUNY)布鲁克林学院、亨特学院和研究生中心内的三个少数族裔服务机构，将在拟议的3年规划计划中合作，旨在解决少数族裔人口中不同的癌症负担，并增加少数族裔科学家对行为和转化性癌症研究的参与。该项目的目标是在癌症预防的研究、教育和推广方法方面培训少数族裔科学家、教师和研究生。这一目标将通过以下具体目标来实现：1)建立规划活动的基础设施，这将促进AHFCC和CUNY之间的长期合作；2)通过教学培训和有指导的研究经验，使CUNY少数族裔研究生参与癌症预防和控制研究；3)通过教育研讨会、合作研究和专业发展计划，培训CUNY和AHFCC的少数族裔科学家关于与少数群体预防和控制癌症的行为和翻译方法；4)让少数群体社区合作伙伴参与规划教育和外联倡议，由社区成员、CUNY的教育工作者和AHFCC的研究人员共同实施；5)制定系统的方法，对目标1-4进行定量和定性评价，并进行中期修正。主要人员将包括来自AHFCC癌症控制和健康促进计划的科学家和教职员工；布鲁克林学院健康与营养科学和心理学系；亨特学院城市公共卫生和社区健康教育项目；研究生中心心理学博士项目；亨特学院城市公共卫生和社区健康教育博士项目；以及研究生中心心理学和集中健康心理学博士项目。研究、教育和外展计划将与患者社区和学校人口一起实施，这些社区包括哈莱姆区的北总医院、纽约州瓦尔哈拉的威彻斯特医疗中心、费城的克罗泽基石医疗系统、纽约州芒特弗农的浸礼会社区以及南布朗克斯和布鲁克林的第8和第12学区。

The American Health Foundation Cancer Center (AHFCC), an NCI- designated cancer center, and three minority serving institutions within the City University of New York (CUNY)-Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and The Graduate Center, will collaborate in the proposed 3- year planning initiative, designed to address the disparate cancer burden in minority populations, and increase the participation of minority scientists in behavioral and translational cancer research. The goal of the project is to train minority scientists, faculty, and graduate students in research, educational, and outreach approaches to cancer prevention. This goal will be accomplished through the following specific aims: 1) Establish an infrastructure for planning activities that will develop long- term collaborations between the AHFCC and CUNY; 2) Generate participation in cancer prevention and control research among CUNY minority graduate students through didactic training and mentored research experiences; 3) Train minority scientists at CUNY and AHFCC in behavioral and translational approaches to cancer prevention and control with minority populations through educational seminars, collaborative research, and professional development programs; 4) Involve minority community partners in planning education and outreach initiatives, to be implemented jointly by community members, educators from CUNY, and researchers from AHFCC; and 5) Develop systematic methods for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of aims 1-4, and making mid-course corrections. Key personnel will include scientists and faculty from the AHFCC Cancer Control and Health Promotion Program; the Brooklyn College Departments in Health and NUTRITION Sciences and Psychology; the Hunter College Programs in Urban Public Health and Community Health Education; and the Graduate Center's Doctoral Programs in Psychology; the Hunter College programs in Urban Public Health and Community Health Education; and the Graduate Center's Doctoral Programs in Psychology and Concentration in Health Psychology. Research, education, and outreach initiatives will be implemented with patient community, and school-based populations from North General Hospital in Harlem; Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY; the Crozer Keystone Health System in Philadelphia; the Baptist Church community in Mount Vernon, NY; and School Districts 8 and 12 in the South Bronx and Brooklyn.