Minority Health and Health Disparties International Research Training Program

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14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，使他们能够成功地从事基础科学，生物医学，临床和行为健康领域的职业，最重要的是增加健康差距人口进入生物医学科学领域的人数。每年12名学员将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。每个外国研究中心都必须有足够的设备和人类或动物研究批准，以执行MHIRT学员的研究建议。导师将提供在国际网站与外国和美国导师。研究中心和导师是根据他们过去提供良好研究经验的记录指定的。这项建议的独特之处在于，MHIRT受训人员一旦返回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综合方法的一部分，其他培训计划（例如MBRS，McNair，MARC）继续支持学生。主要的SDSU-MHIRT站点位于澳大利亚、加纳、墨西哥、秘鲁和台湾（中华民国）。在过去三年中，SDSU-MHIRT方案为46名受训人员提供了服务。其中，15人已被录取，正在或已完成博士课程，6人在硕士课程。此外，6人正在申请研究生或医学院，1人正在参加NIH-IRTA学士后课程，4人正在工作，3人仍在完成本科教育，其中10人目前正在国际网站参加MHIRT计划。此外，在这一周期内出版了52份出版物，其中27份有实习作者。根据目前的业绩记录，组织结构以及申请人的热情和承诺，SDSU-MHIRT建议在未来五年内至少有20名学员接受博士课程，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.