PRIDE COORDINATION CENTER

描述(由申请人提供)：项目摘要：本申请旨在满足几个培训项目的组织和支持需求，这些培训项目致力于增加从事生物医学研究的科学家的多样性(称为PROCE)。Pride项目举办有指导的暑期学院，旨在通过进一步发展少数民族初级教师和科学家的研究技能和知识来促进他们的职业发展。该项目将作为支持这些培训计划的协调核心(CC)。协调委员会将通过设计和监督基于网络的基础设施来促进项目之间的教育和评估活动，该基础设施完成以下工作。(1)招聘和外联：协调委员会将使用基于网络的信息学方法发展和协调外联工作，以招募受训人员参加夏季学院方案。(2)辅导和联网：协调委员会将协调努力，为受训人员(辅导小组)物色导师，为辅导小组开发和举办培训讲习班，评估辅导小组的成效，并为受训人员确定和传播有关额外培训和联网机会的信息。(3)会议：CC将处理所有计划和后勤，以便CC实地访问每个项目，并在华盛顿特区地区至少举行两次年度会议。一次年度会议将由PIs和NHLBI工作人员参加(董事会议)，另一次会议将由NHLBI和项目工作人员、教员、被辅导者和导师参加(年度Pride会议)。(4)沟通：CC将处理所有沟通，包括协调电话会议、记录和分发电话会议和会议记录，以及创建基于网络的资源，以满足整个计划的需求，如张贴目录、NIH政策和程序、招聘和申请材料、时事通讯、资助机会和公告。(5)评估和跟踪：协调委员会将促进为整个联合体制定基于网络的评估和跟踪协议，包括一项关于跟踪前一项由NHLBI支持的研究(SIPID)的指导者的建议。最后，协调委员会将协助编写分析和报告，记录PARE努力的进展情况。 公共卫生相关性：相关性众所周知，心血管疾病对少数群体的影响不成比例，然而，将少数群体纳入这些研究研究一直很困难。另一方面，当研究项目由少数族裔科学家领导和进行时，少数族裔招募会得到极大的改善。因此，需要进行培训，使来自不同背景的教师和科学家能够进一步发展他们的技能和知识，并加强他们作为研究人员和科学家的职业发展。

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.