University of Iowa MHIRT Program

描述(申请人提供)：尽管报告了经济增长和社会转型，但国家和国际上仍需要增加训练有素的科学家的数量，这些科学家来自生物医学、临床、行为和卫生服务研究领域的健康差距和代表性不足的人群。爱荷华大学这一项目的总体目的是继续发展我们在国际环境中为少数族裔和未得到充分服务的学生提供健康科学研究培训的历史。该计划将加强这些个人，并希望主办机构在三个新兴的卓越中心，包括冈比亚大学、秘鲁利马的Anne Sullivan中心和罗马尼亚Cluj-Napoca的Babes-Bolyai大学的卫生政策和公共卫生中心，开展公共卫生和基础科学领域的临床、翻译和实施研究。这个项目的具体目标是：(1)每年鼓励10名来自健康差距人群的本科生、研究生和卫生专业学生从事基础科学、生物医学、临床和行为卫生研究领域的工作；(2)扩大对这些学生的培训，使其涵盖国际卫生问题；(3)帮助这些学生参与与美国和国际教师的合作研究活动；(4)提高卫生科学的文化能力；(5) 寻求创新的方法来解决与缩小健康差距相关的问题和/或障碍；以及(6)让学生沉浸在一个研究环境中，该环境提供充分的研究活动，包括理论建模、发展假设和设计、数据收集和分析、临床或实验室活动和解决实际问题 练习。这一多学科计划将继续以短期培训为主要重点， 并通过远程学习技术和国内研讨会或爱荷华大学合作导师的尽可能多的监督，改善学生和东道国的体验。该计划还将为学员提供与爱荷华州和国内导师继续合作的机会，并在可行的情况下结束对可出版研究产品的研究。该项目的成功建立在爱荷华大学在环境健康和公共健康领域的广泛专业知识以及多年培训和/或与东道国机构的研究人员合作的经验基础上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite reported economic growth and social transformations there is a national and international need to increase the number of well-trained scientists from health disparities and underrepresented populations in the fields of biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and health services research. The overall purpose of this project by The University of Iowa is to continue to build on our history of health science research training for minority and underserved students in international settings. This program will strengthen these individuals and hopefully the host institution's capacity to conduct clinical, translation and implementation research on public health and basic science areas in three emerging centers of excellence, including the University of The Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia; the Anne Sullivan Center, Lima, Peru and the Center for Health Policy and Public Health at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The specific aims of this project are to (1) encourage ten undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who are from health disparities populations to pursue careers in basic science, biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research fields, annually; (2) broaden the training of these students to encompass international health issues; (3) assist these students to participate in collaborative research initiatives with U.S. and international faculty; (4) increase cultural competency skills in the health sciences; (5) seek innovative approaches to address problems and/or hindrances associated with closing health disparities gaps; and (6) immerse the student in a research environment which provides full exposure to research activities including theoretical modeling, development of hypotheses and design, data collection and analysis, clinical or lab activities, and practical problem solving exercises. This multi-disciplinary program will continue to focus primarily on short-term training, and enhance the student and host country experiences through distance learning technologies and in-country workshops or oversight as much as possible by University of Iowa collaborating mentors. The program will also offer trainees opportunities for continued collaborations with both Iowa and in-country mentors with an end towards publishable research products whenever feasible. The success of the program is founded on the University of Iowa's broad expertise in areas of environmental health and public health and its years of experience training and or collaborating with researchers from the host country institutions.