UCLA Center for Population Health & Health Disparities Research Education Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议建立一个短期的“研究教育计划”，以增加健康相关研究的多样性，旨在增加感兴趣并从事健康差异研究的代表性不足的本科生和健康专业学生的数量，特别是专注于减少拉丁美洲人口的心血管疾病（CVD）。该计划将成为我们新的NHLBI资助（P50）人口健康和健康差异中心（CPHHD）的一部分，并将纳入CPHHD目前的培训和职业发展计划。加州大学洛杉矶分校CPHHD正在进行密集的家庭和邻里环境干预，以改善加州（东洛杉矶）东洛杉矶的食物和体育活动景观，它使用跨学科的方法来了解和干预在这个低收入，高风险的拉丁裔社区心血管疾病的差异。教育和培训的重点是创造一种新的健康差距研究人员，谁认为微观，个人，家庭，系统和社区层面的因素，有助于心血管疾病在拉丁美洲人口的差距，并整合板凳和社会科学的方法。我们提出的计划将利用CPHHD的跨学科团队的调查人员从生理学，流行病学，心理学，精神病学，营养科学，健康促进，健康传播，生物统计学，媒体和艺术领域的优势。在该计划的五年期间，我们将从加州大学洛杉矶分校本科课程和加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生，医学，护理和牙科学院以及其他当地大学（如南加州大学（USC））招募并选择40名代表性不足的学生参加该计划。每年夏天，由一名本科生和一名卫生专业学生组成的四对学生将与加州大学洛杉矶分校的CPHHD调查人员合作。学生将接受密集的一对一的指导，并将参加研讨会和讲习班，重点是健康差距研究和政策，卫生专业准备和培训以及职业发展，他们将撰写报告并向CPHHD调查人员以及科学和专业会议介绍他们的工作。这是我们的期望，大多数学生将选择进入健康专业计划或研究职业生涯集中在健康差距。我们将进行过程和结果评估，以确定计划是否成功。 公共卫生相关性：有强烈的需要，以增加人数不足的学生谁是有兴趣和从事进行健康差距的研究。拟议的增加健康相关研究多样性的短期研究教育计划旨在增加进行拉丁裔心血管研究的代表性不足的学生数量，以及进入健康专业项目并从事健康事业的代表性不足的学生数量差异研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish a Short-term "Research Education Program" to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research, that aims to increase the number of underrepresented undergraduate and health professional students interested and engaged in health disparities research, particularly focused on reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Latino populations. The program will become part of our new NHLBI-funded (P50) Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD), and it will be integrated into the CPHHD's current Training and Career Development Program. The UCLA CPHHD is conducting intensive home and neighborhood environment interventions to improve the food and physical activity landscape in East Los Angeles, California (East L.A.), and it uses interdisciplinary methods to understand and intervene on CVD disparities in this low-income, high-risk Latino community. The focus of the education and training is to create a new kind of health disparities researcher, who considers the micro, individual, family, systems and community level factors that contribute to CVD disparities in Latino populations and integrates bench and social science approaches. Our proposed program will take advantage of the CPHHD's interdisciplinary team of investigators from the fields of physiology, epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry, nutritional sciences, health promotion, health communications, biostatistics, and media and the arts. Over the course of the five years of the program, we will recruit and select 40 underrepresented students from the UCLA undergraduate program and from the UCLA Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, as well as from other local universities, such as the University of Southern California (USC), to participate in the program. Each summer, four dyads comprised of an undergraduate student and a health professions student will be partnered with UCLA CPHHD investigators. Students will receive intensive one-on-one mentoring and will participate in seminars and workshops focused on health disparities research and policy, health professions preparation and training and career development, and they will be expected to write a report and present their work to the CPHHD investigators and at scientific and professional meetings. It is our expectation that the majority of the students will choose to enter a health professions program or research career focused on health disparities. We will conduct both process and outcome evaluation to determine program success. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is strong need to increase the number of underrepresented students who are interested and engaged in conducting health disparities research. The proposed Short-term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research aims to increase the number of underrepresented students who will conduct Latino based cardiovascular research and the number of underrepresented students who enter health professional programs and pursue careers in health disparities research.