Minority Health and Health Disparties International Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：圣地亚哥州立大学少数民族健康和健康差异国际研究培训计划（SDSU-MHIRT）将继续其十四年的传统，为来自健康差异背景的学生提供优秀的国际生物医学研究培训。SDSU-MHIRT将鼓励和支持其学生，使他们能够在基础科学，生物医学，临床和行为健康领域成功地追求职业生涯，最重要的是增加健康差异人群进入生物医学科学领域的人数。每年将有12名学员在以下领域进行原创性研究：公共卫生、分子生物学/民族药理学、药物设计和抗癌剂、行为科学和临床研究。每个国外基地都需要有足够的设备和人类或动物研究批准来执行MHIRT受训者的研究建议。将在国际现场与外国和美国导师提供指导。地点和导师是根据他们过去提供良好研究经验的记录来指定的。该提案的独特之处在于，MHIRT学员一旦回到SDSU，将获得扩展的支持系统。以学生为基础的国际研究经验是其他培训项目（如MBRS， McNair， MARC）继续支持学生的综合方法的一部分。在过去的三年里，sdsu mhirt项目已经为46名学员提供了培训。其中，15人已被博士课程录取，正在攻读或已完成博士课程，6人正在攻读硕士课程。此外，6人正在申请研究生或医学院，1人正在攻读NIH-IRTA的学士学位后课程，4人正在工作，3人仍在完成他们的本科教育，其中10人目前在国际站点参加MHIRT计划。此外，在这个周期内出版了52种出版物，其中27种是实习作者。根据目前的记录，组织结构，以及申请人的热情和承诺，SDSU-MHIRT建议在接下来的五年周期中，至少有20名学员被博士课程录取，10名进入硕士课程，5名进入医学科学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The San Diego State University-Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training program (SDSU-MHIRT) will continue its fourteen year tradition of presenting outstanding international biomedical research training to students from health disparity backgrounds. SDSU-MHIRT will encourage and support its students so that they can successfully pursue careers in the fields of basic science, biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health, and most importantly increase the number of persons from health disparities populations who enter into the field of biomedical science. Twelve trainees per year will perform original research in areas encompassing: public health, molecular biology/ethno-pharmacology, drug design and anticancer agents, behavioral science, and clinical research. Each foreign site is required to have adequate equipment and human or animal-subject research approval for the execution of the MHIRT trainees' research proposals. Mentorship will be provided at the international site with a foreign and US mentor. Sites and mentors have been designated based on their past track record of providing a sound research experience. Unique to this proposal is that MHIRT trainees will have an extended support system once they return to SDSU. The student-based international research experience is part of an integrated approach in which other training programs (e.g. MBRS, McNair, MARC) continue to support the students. Major SDSU-MHIRT sites are in Australia, Ghana, Mexico, Peru, and Taiwan (Republic of China). In the last three years the SDSU-MHIRT program has served 46 trainees. Of these, 15 have been accepted into, are in, or have completed PhD programs and 6 are in Masters programs. In addition 6 are applying to graduate or medical school, 1 is in an NIH-IRTA post-baccalaureate program, 4 are working, and 3 are still completing their undergraduate education, of which 10 are currently at an international site taking part in the MHIRT program. In addition, in this cycle 52 publications were produced of which 27 had trainee authors. Based on the current track record, organizational structure, and the enthusiasm and commitment of the applicants, SDSU-MHIRT proposes for this next five year cycle a targeted minimum of 20 trainees accepted into PhD programs, 10 into Masters programs, and 5 into Medical Sciences. RELEVANCE: The SDSU MHIRT program addresses health disparities by training students from health disparity backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical sciences using an international research experience. MHIRT trainees will become the next generation of academic and clinical scholars who will study and arrive at solutions for the myriad of health disparities problems that plague our society.