The UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：美国国立卫生研究院生物医学研究人员多样性工作组最近发布了一系列建议，以改善研究人员的多样性，包括为“代表性不足的少数民族学生”建立一个“指导系统”网络，在他们的职业发展过程中提供职业指导。为此，本R25申请响应PAR-10-173 （NIDA临床研究人员和临床医生研究教育计划），并为加州大学洛杉矶分校艾滋病毒/艾滋病，药物滥用和创伤培训计划（以下简称“计划”）寻求五年的资助。该计划的使命是为早期职业临床研究人员或博士后学者提供培训和指导，这些学者来自不同的种族和文化，他们的重点是减少药物滥用和艾滋病毒传播，减少服务不足的人群中创伤压力和健康差异的高风险。目标是让学者建立职业独立性，包括NIH为他们的研究提供资金。该项目代表了我们的多学科、多民族团队在NIMH arra资助的艾滋病毒/艾滋病转化培训项目的发展，该项目成功地为五名博士后学者提供了两年的培训和指导，其中一些人已经收到或正在寻求NIDA的资助。我们的试点方案强调，有必要使药物滥用和创伤性压力成为方案概念取向的中心，因为这一联系一直不是培训补助金的重点，这些补助金针对的是面临艾滋病毒和健康差距风险的服务不足人口。我们的计划将为总共20名（每年5名，为期4年）早期职业临床研究人员和博士后学者提供为期两年的培训和指导课程，这些学者拥有资助的奖学金或其他学术职位，但需要在艾滋病毒/艾滋病、药物滥用、创伤压力和健康差异方面进行具体培训。服务不足的人口，特别是那些种族/少数民族人口，不成比例地受到药物滥用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病的影响，并且通常经历高度的创伤性压力。为了了解这些现象的融合，学者们将在两年内每年参加为期两周的研究所，并将接受持续的个性化职业指导、培训和研究监督。每一批学者将在培训补助金期间接受跟踪，每一批学者将展示他们的

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The NIH Working Group on Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce recently released a set of recommendations to improve the diversity of the research workforce, including establishing a "system of mentorship "networks" for underrepresented minority students that will provide career guidance throughout their career development." To that end, this R25 application responds to PAR-10-173 (NIDA Research Education Program for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians) and seeks five years of funding for the UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program (hereafter, "Program"). The Program mission is to provide training and mentorship to early career clinician researchers or post-doctoral scholars who are ethnically and culturally diverse and whose focus is reducing substance abuse and HIV transmission in underserved populations at high risk for traumatic stress and health disparities. The goal is for Scholars to establish career independence, including NIH funding for their research. This program represents an evolution of our multidisciplinary, multiethnic team's NIMH ARRA-funded HIV/AIDS Translational Training Program, which successfully provided two years of training and mentorship to five postdoctoral scholars, several of whom have received or are seeking NIDA funding. Our pilot program highlighted the need to make substance abuse and traumatic stress more central to the Program's conceptual orientation because this link has not been the focus of training grants that target underserved populations at risk for HIV and health disparities. Our Program will provide a two-year course of training and mentorship to a total of 20 (five per year for 4 years) early career clinical researchers and post-doctoral scholars who hold funded fellowships or other academic positions but need specific training in HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, traumatic stress and health disparities. Underserved populations, particularly those racial/ethnic minority populations, are disproportionately affected by substance abuse and HIV/AIDS and typically experience a high degree of traumatic stress. To learn about the confluence of these phenomena, Scholars will attend two week-long Institutes per year for two years and will receive continual, personalized career mentoring, training, and research supervision. Each cohort of Scholars will be followed for the duration of the training grant and each cohort will present their research in Year 2, form a network of collaborative mentoring, and come together in Year 5 to share their experiences and progress in achieving Program goals. Scholars will be mentored by a core faculty mentor as well as a "home" mentor, i.e., someone regularly accessible to the Scholar who has the relevant expertise and commitment to mentoring the Scholar for the duration of the Program. Each Scholar will be expected to use pilot funding from the Program to conduct research (e.g., qualitative study, secondary analyses, etc.) that will serve as preliminary studies in their NIDA application during their two year tenure.