Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training

描述(申请人提供)：这是一个申请继续以前资助的博士培训项目，在公共卫生培训中促进种族多样性。这项计划侧重于公共卫生领域传统上代表性不足的群体(非洲裔美国人、拉美裔美国人、美国印第安人)的学生。培训计划将继续设在学校现已建立的种族、文化和健康研究中心(CRECH)。这一少数民族培训计划的主要目的是增加和保持在密歇根大学公共卫生学院申请、注册并成功完成博士课程的人数。为了在第一个资助期成功的基础上再接再厉并扩大成功，该方案通过两种方式扩大。首先，该计划包括一项以硕士学生为重点的新学生发展计划。其次，该计划在构成该计划第一个供资周期的三个系(流行病学、健康行为和健康教育、健康管理和政策)的基础上增加了两个系(环境健康科学和生物统计学)。此外，该计划现在将采取更加明确的实质性重点。也就是说，除了是指定的代表性不足群体的成员外，有资格参加该项目的学生还必须对种族和民族健康差异的研究表现出明显的兴趣。由于国家日益重视公共卫生研究科学家研究种族和族裔健康差距的需要，而且许多健康问题都不成比例地落在种族和少数民族群体身上，因此有理由加强这一实质性重点。在可衡量的目标方面，该计划将：1)每年支持10名博士生。博士生将获得两年的培训补助金，然后由拉克姆研究生院提供三年的资助，从而形成五年资助方案；2)每年支持三名新的硕士学生，支持他们两年，从而在新的资助周期的第二年稳定招收六名硕士学生。所有被资助的学生，包括硕士和博士，将被任命为带薪(工资，小时工资)研究生研究助理。所有学生都将与负责就业、实践指导和高质量指导的教职员工配对。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the previously funded doctoral training program, Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training. This program focuses on students from population groups traditionally underrepresented (African American, Latino, American Indian) in the field of public health. The training program will continue to be located in the School's now well-established Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH). The main purpose of this minority training program is to increase and maintain the number of under-represented students who apply, enroll, and successfully complete doctoral studies at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. In order to build on and expand the success of the first funding period, the program is expanded in two ways. First, the program includes a new student development plan focused on master's students. Second, the program adds two departments (Environmental Health Sciences and Biostatistics) to the three departments (Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, Health Management and Policy) that comprised the program's first funding cycle. In addition, the program will now take a much more explicit substantive focus. That is, in addition to being members of the designated under-represented groups, students eligible for this program must also demonstrate an explicit interest in the study of racial and ethnic health disparities. This sharpened substantive focus is justified on the basis of the Nation's increasing emphasis on the need for public health research scientists working on racial and ethnic health disparities, and because so many health problems fall disproportionately on racial and ethnic minority groups. In terms of measurable objectives, the program will: 1) support ten doctoral students each year. Doctoral students will be supported on the training grant for two years and then be offered three years of funding by the Rackham Graduate School, thereby resulting in a five-year funding package; 2) support three new master's students each year, supporting them for two years, resulting in a steady enrollment of six master's students by year two of the new funding cycle. All supported students, both master's and doctoral, will be appointed as paid (salary, hourly wages) graduate research assistants. All students will be matched with faculty who will be responsible for employment, hands-on instruction, and quality mentoring.