Promoting Ethnic Diversity in Public Health Training

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续先前资助的博士培训计划的申请，促进公共卫生培训中的种族多样性。该计划的重点是来自公共卫生领域传统上代表性不足的群体（非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔美国人、美洲印第安人）的学生。培训项目将继续设在学院现已建立的种族、文化和健康研究中心（CRECH）。这项少数族裔培训计划的主要目的是增加和保持申请、注册并成功完成密歇根大学公共卫生学院博士学位的弱势学生的数量。为了在第一个资助期取得成功的基础上再接再厉并扩大其规模，本项目将以两种方式扩大。首先，该项目包括一项针对硕士生的新的学生发展计划。其次，该项目在三个系（流行病学、健康行为和健康教育、健康管理和政策）基础上增加了两个系（环境健康科学和生物统计学），这三个系构成了该项目的第一个资助周期。此外，该计划现在将采取更加明确的实质性重点。也就是说，除了作为指定的代表性不足的群体的成员外，有资格参加该计划的学生还必须对种族和民族健康差异的研究表现出明确的兴趣。由于国家日益强调需要从事种族和族裔健康差异研究的公共卫生研究科学家，而且由于如此多的健康问题不成比例地落在种族和族裔少数群体的身上，因此这种加强实质性重点是合理的。在可衡量的目标方面，该计划将：1)每年支持10名博士生。博士研究生将获得两年的培训资助，然后由拉克姆研究生院提供三年的资助，从而形成五年的资助计划；2)每年支持3名新的硕士生，支持他们两年，从而在新的资助周期的第二年稳定地招收6名硕士生。所有获得资助的硕士和博士研究生将被任命为带薪（工资，小时工资）研究生研究助理。所有学生都将与负责就业、实践指导和质量指导的教师相匹配。

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.