Elizabeth City State University Minority International Research Training Program

描述（申请人提供）：伊丽莎白城州立大学少数民族健康和健康差异国际研究培训（E-MHIRT）计划为来自美国健康差异人群的本科生提供机会，进行以下研究：（i）药物发现，以对抗前列腺癌和糖尿病等健康差异疾病，以及（ii）心理社会行为研究，以确定II型糖尿病的风险因素，这是一种严重影响美国少数民族的疾病。被选中的荣誉学生是美国健康差异人群的成员，主修生物学、化学、物理学、心理学、社会学和社会工作。他们将在博茨瓦纳大学和南非祖鲁兰大学的著名美国和非洲（外国）导师的指导下接受为期10周的研究培训。该E-MHIRT计划是一项努力，以促进国家少数民族健康和健康差异中心的目标，建立一个多元化的，有文化能力的研究队伍，以促进少数民族健康和消除种族和少数民族，贫困和医疗服务不足的人口在农村和城市社区经历的健康差距。E-MHIRT计划的组成部分是（1）旅行前健康-差异讲习班和研讨会系列，以告知学员美国和全球背景下的健康差异问题以及相关的生物伦理学;（2）在外国地点进行以下方面的研究培训：（a）药物发现，目的是引进源自非洲丰富的传统医疗做法的治疗方式，（B）寻找2型糖尿病的社会心理危险因素，与美国和加勒比地区的数据进行比较，以努力确定健康差异人口中糖尿病发病率过高的原因;（3）在一个外国地点举行E-MHIRT专题讨论会，学员口头介绍他们的研究结果;（4）旅行后的活动，包括（a）在美国继续进行一些研究，以及（B）在美国的科学会议上发表演讲。希望这些受训人员将成为生物医学/行为/社会科学研究人员骨干的一部分，他们了解人口的健康差异，并决心为教育和最终消除美国种族和少数民族群体之间的健康差异做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Elizabeth City State University Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (E-MHIRT) Program provides opportunities for undergraduate students from US health disparities populations to conduct research in (i) drug discovery to combat such health disparity diseases as prostate cancer and diabetes and (ii) psycho-socio-behavioral research to identify risk factors for type II diabetes, a disease that disproportionately affects minorities in the USA. Selected honor students are members of US health disparities populations, majoring in biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, sociology and social work. They will spend 10 weeks receiving research training under the tutelage of prominent US and African (foreign) mentors at University of Botswana in Botswana and University of Zululand in South Africa. The E- MHIRT Program is an effort to contribute to the goal of the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities of building a diverse, culturally-competent research workforce to promote minority health and eliminate health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minority, poor, and medically underserved populations in rural and urban communities. E-MHIRT Program components are (1) Pre-Travel Health- Disparities Workshops and Seminar Series to inform trainees about the problems of heath disparities in US and global contexts and related bioethics; (2) Research Training at Foreign Sites in (a) drug discovery with a goal of introducing treatment modalities, derived from Africa's rich traditional medical practice, (b) search for psychosocial risk factors for type 2 diabetes for comparison with data from the USA and Caribbean's in an effort to identify causes of excess diabetes morbidity among health disparities populations; (3) E-MHIRT Symposium at one of the foreign sites where trainees orally present their research findings; (4) Post-travel Activities that include (a) continuation of some of the research in the USA, and (b) Presentations at scientific meetings in the USA. It is hoped that these trainees will be part of a cadre of biomedical/behavioral/ social science researchers that understands health disparities populations and will resolve to contribute to the 7eduction and ultimate elimination of health disparities among US racial and ethnic minority groups.