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劳动力多样性工作组最近发布了一系列建议，以改善研究劳动力的多样性，包括为未被充分代表的少数族裔学生建立一个“导师系统”网络，“将在他们的职业发展过程中提供职业指导”。为此，此R25应用程序响应PAR-10-173(NIDA临床研究人员和临床医生研究教育计划)，并寻求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”)提供为期五年的资金。该计划的任务是为职业生涯早期的临床医生研究人员或博士后学者提供培训和指导，他们的种族和文化多样性，他们的重点是减少服务不足的人群中的物质滥用和艾滋病毒传播，这些人群是创伤应激和健康差距的高风险人群。目标是让学者们建立职业独立性，包括为他们的研究提供NIH资金。该项目代表了我们的多学科、多种族团队的NIMH ARRA资助的艾滋病毒/艾滋病翻译培训计划的发展，该计划成功地为五名博士后学者提供了两年的培训和指导，其中几人已经获得或正在寻求NIDA的资助。我们的试点计划强调，有必要使药物滥用和创伤应激在该计划的概念定位中更加核心，因为这一联系并不是针对艾滋病毒风险人群和健康差距的服务不足人群的培训拨款的重点。我们的计划将为总共20名职业早期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(4年每年5名)，他们拥有资助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、创伤应激和健康差距方面进行具体培训。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，通常经历高度的创伤应激。为了了解这些现象的汇合，学者们将在两年内每年参加两个为期一周的学院，并将接受持续的、个性化的职业指导、培训和研究指导。每一批学者将在培训补助金期间接受跟踪，每一批人将展示他们的 在第二年进行研究，形成一个协作指导网络，并在第五年聚集在一起，分享他们在实现计划目标方面的经验和进展。学者将由一名核心教师导师和一名“家庭”导师指导，即学者定期接触的具有相关专业知识和承诺在项目期间指导学者的人。每位奖学金获得者将利用该计划的试点资金进行研究(例如，定性研究、二次分析等)。这将是初步的 在他们两年的任期内，他们在NIDA申请中学习。

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.