Short-Term Research Training for Minority Students

描述(由申请人提供) 这是哈佛大学公共卫生学院在生物统计学方面非常成功的短期培训计划的竞争性更新。这项计划的对象是那些在公共卫生领域中代表性不足的群体的本科生，主要包括少数群体，他们正在攻读数学、计算机科学、物理学、工程学或其他量化领域的本科学位。需要为6个为期4周的实习时间提供支持。该计划支持的活动包括生物统计学和统计计算的入门课程、研究研讨会、小组研究项目、职业规划研讨会、GRE实践考试和各种社会活动。每年将与哈佛大学公共卫生学院生物统计学、流行病学、社会学系、人类发展与健康系和环境健康系的教职员工合作设计小组项目。该项目将包括数据分析、报告撰写和口头陈述。所有参加该计划的学生都将被强烈鼓励继续读研究生。虽然重点将放在生物统计学和流行病学领域，但学生将学习各种研究职业选择，包括环境科学的各个方面。将鼓励有前途的学生申请调查学校，并将大力考虑支持环境生物统计学(5-T32-ES07142)的这一培训补助金或癌症和艾滋病的其他培训补助金。过去五年的进展是极好的。自1994年以来，已有60名学生参加了该项目。到目前为止，该项目已完成本科学位的43名学生中，有26名(62%)继续接受统计学或生物统计学的研究生培训。已经有10人进入了生物统计学项目和哈佛大学。该方案已经对该部的招聘和留用产生了可衡量的积极影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This is a competitive renewal of a highly successful short term training program in Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. This program targets undergraduate students who are members of groups who are underrepresented in the field of Public Health, including, primarily minority groups, and who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering or another quantitative field. Support is requested for six 4-week internship slots. Among the activities supported by the program are introductory coursework in biostatistics and statistical computing, research seminars, small group research projects, career planning workshops, a practice GRE examination and a variety of social activities. Group projects will be designed each year in collaboration with faculty from the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Society, Human Development and Health, and Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. The project will include data analysis, report writing, and oral presentation. All students who participate in the program will be strongly encouraged to go on to graduate school. While the emphasis will be on the fields of biostatistics and epidemiology, students will learn about a variety of research career options, including various aspects of environmental science. Promising students will be encouraged to apply to the investigators' School and will be given strong consideration for support on this training grant in Environmental Biostatistics (5-T32-ES07142) or on the other training grants in cancer and AIDS, for example. The progress over the past five years has been excellent. Sixty- students have participated in the program since 1994. Of the 43 students in the program who have finished their undergraduate degrees as of this time, 26 (62%) have gone on to pursue graduate training in statistics or biostatistics. Ten have entered the Biostatistics program and Harvard. The program is already having a measurable positive impact on recruitment and retention in the Department.