Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open! /MHIRT (BRAVO!MHIRT)

描述(由申请者提供)：全球思维和本地化行动是我们提出的计划的隐喻，强调我们认识到困扰美国和世界许多国家的全球健康差距问题，以及培训当地研究科学家面对共同构成健康差距的无数问题的必要性。亚利桑那大学(UA)的研究人员在关注健康差距问题的国际合作方面有着悠久的历史。正是这种力量，加上我们的国际合作者的力量，一直是我们努力向合格学生提供处理这些问题所需的必要培训的核心。 这项提案承认，招募人数不足的少数族裔受训人员研究健康差距问题可以而且应该在学生从高中入学之前就开始，通过向少数族裔入学率较高的当地学校开展外联计划。这项提案描述了一项计划，通过该计划，合格的UA学生准备解决国内和世界各地的健康差距问题。该项目名为海外生物医学研究：Vistas Openl/MHIRT(BRAVOI/MHIRT)，使学员能够在UA正在进行的生物医学和行为研究工作的基础上再接再厉，这些工作将转化为与健康差距相关的重点。受训人员将被鼓励：1)发展与他们的研究工作相关的批判性思维技能；2)在他们工作的外国环境中检查他们的研究，因为它与那里和美国的健康差距有关；3)培养自信和独立的思维，这将增强他们在国外和国内解决问题的能力；4)思考全球范围的科学网络如何提高研究成果；以及5)在规划他们的未来时，考虑他们的科学努力将意味着什么。 具体地说，该计划每年将支持10名实习生-8名本科生实习生和2名研究生或卫生专业实习生。每个受训者将在外国网站花费10到12周，或一个学期，参与与减少健康差距有关的研究。 相关性：该项目将改善公共卫生，每年向10名任职人数不足的受训人员提供评估和解决与缩小健康差距有关的研究问题和问题的工具。受训者将研究美国和其他国家健康差距的共性，这将塑造他们自己的职业未来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Thinking globally and acting locally is a metaphor for the program we put forth, emphasizing our recognition of global health disparity issues that plague the United States and many countries of the world and the need to train local research scientists to face the myriad of problems that collectively constitute health disparities. Investigators at the University of Arizona (UA) have a long history of international collaborations focusing on health disparity problems. It is that strength coupled with those of our international collaborators that have been at the core of our efforts to provide qualified students with the requisite training needed to deal with these issues. This proposal acknowledges that recruitment of underrepresented minority trainees to study health disparity issues can and should begin before students matriculate from high school through outreach programs to local schools with high minority enrollments. This proposal describes a plan by which qualified UA students prepare to address health disparity issues in the nation and around the world. The program, called Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Openl/MHIRT (BRAVOI/MHIRT), enables trainees to build upon ongoing biomedical and behavioral research efforts at the UA that will translate into a focus related to health disparities. Trainees will be encouraged to: 1) develop critical thinking skills related to their research endeavor; 2) examine their research in the context of the foreign environment in which they work and as it is relates to health disparities both there and in the US; 3) develop confidence and independence of thought that will enhance their problem solving ability both abroad and at home; 4) think about how scientific networking on a global scale enhances research outcomes; and, 5) think about what their scientific effort will mean in the long term as they plan their futures. Specifically, this program will support ten trainees annually-eight undergraduate trainees and two graduate or health professions trainees. Each trainee will spend ten to twelve weeks, or a semester, at the foreign site involved in research that relates to the reduction of health disparities. RELEVANCE: This project will improve public health by providing ten underrepresented trainees per year with the tools to assess and address research questions and issues that are related to reduction of health disparities. Trainees will examine commonalities between health disparities in the U.S. and other countries which will shape their own professional futures.