PRIDE COORDINATION CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要：本申请旨在解决几个培训项目的组织和支持需求，这些项目致力于增加生物医学研究科学家的多样性（称为PRIDE）。PRIDE项目开展有指导的暑期学院，旨在通过进一步发展少数民族青年教师和科学家的研究技能和知识，促进他们的职业发展。该项目将作为支持这些培训项目的协调核心（CC）。CC将通过设计和监督基于网络的基础设施，促进各项目之间的教育和评估活动。(1)招聘和外联：CC将使用基于网络的信息学方法制定和协调外联工作，以招募暑期学院项目的学员。(2)指导和网络：CC将协调努力，为学员确定导师（指导团队），为指导团队开发和举办培训讲习班，评估指导团队的有效性，并确定和传播有关学员额外培训和网络机会的信息。(3)会议：CC将负责CC对每个项目进行实地考察以及在华盛顿特区地区举行的至少两次年度会议的所有计划和后勤工作。一个年度会议将由pi和NHLBI工作人员参加（董事会议），另一个由所有NHLBI和项目工作人员、教师、学员和导师参加（年度骄傲会议）。(4)通信：CC将处理所有通信，包括协调电话会议，记录和分发电话和会议记录，以及为项目范围的需要创建基于网络的资源，如发布目录，NIH政策和程序，招聘和申请材料，新闻通讯，资助机会和公告。(5)评估和跟踪：CC将促进为整个联盟制定基于网络的评估和跟踪协议，包括跟踪以前nhlbi支持的研究（SIPID）中的学员的建议。最后，协调委员会将促进编制分析和报告，记录PRIDE工作的进展情况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: This application seeks to address the organizational and support needs of several training programs that are engaged in efforts to increase diversity among scientists doing biomedical research (called PRIDE). The PRIDE programs conduct mentored Summer Institutes that are designed to enhance the career development of minority junior faculty and scientists by further developing their research skills and knowledge. This project will serve as the coordination core (CC) to support these training programs. The CC will facilitate the education and evaluation activities among programs by designing and overseeing a web-based infrastructure does the following. (1) Recruitment and outreach: The CC will use web-based informatics methods to develop and coordinate outreach efforts to recruit trainees to the Summer Institute programs. (2) Mentoring and Networking: The CC will coordinate efforts to identify mentors for the trainees (mentoring teams), to develop and conduct training workshops for the mentoring teams, to evaluate the effectiveness of the mentoring teams, and to identify and disseminate information on additional training and networking opportunities for the trainees. (3) Meetings: The CC will handle all plans and logistics for the CC to site-visit each program and for at least two annual meetings to be held in the Washington DC area. One annual meeting will be attended by the PIs and NHLBI staff (directors meeting) and another by all the NHLBI and program staff, faculty, mentees and mentors (Annual PRIDE Conference). (4) Communications: The CC will handle all communications including coordinating conference calls, recording and distributing minutes of calls and meetings, and creating web- based resources for program-wide needs such as posting directories, NIH policies and procedures, recruiting and application materials, newsletters, funding opportunities, and announcements. (5) Evaluations and Tracking: The CC will facilitate the development of a web-based evaluations and tracking protocol for the entire consortium, including a proposal to track mentees from a previous NHLBI-supported study (SIPID). Finally, the CC will facilitate the production of analyses and reports documenting the progress of the PRIDE efforts. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Relevance It is well known that CVD disproportionately affects minorities, and yet recruiting minorities into these research studies has been difficult. On the other hand, minority recruiting is greatly improved when research projects are led and conducted by minority scientists. Consequently, training is needed that will enable faculty and scientists from diverse backgrounds to further develop their skills and knowledge and enhance their career development as research faculty and scientists.