Training for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/AIDS Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：本申请寻求继续资助加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)开展研究以减少艾滋病毒/艾滋病健康差距的科学家培训计划。该方案解决了《国家艾滋病毒/艾滋病战略》中强调的迫切需要，即在受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响最严重的服务不足的社区开展具有文化能力的艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防研究。我们的培训计划为职业生涯早期的社会和行为艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防科学家提供教育和指导，他们具有文化专长，致力于改善受艾滋病毒影响的未得到充分服务的社区的健康，并正在发起创新的研究计划，以推进艾滋病研究办公室的心理健康相关目标和NIMH艾滋病研究部的计划优先事项。这个为期五年的项目的目标是：1)帮助客座教授提炼创新的想法、概念和 将理论转化为清晰、可行的艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防研究计划，重点关注与艾滋病毒/艾滋病健康差距相关的社会、行为和环境影响；2)为客座教授提供资金和指导，以设计和实施重大的创新试点研究，为后续的拨款提案提供初步数据；3)为访问教授提供教育、指导和技术援助，帮助他们撰写、提交、修改和重新提交NIH研究补助金，重点是针对服务不足的社区(例如，种族、民族、性少数群体)经历艾滋病毒相关健康差距的社会/行为研究；以及4)为已完成该计划并继续进行社会/行为艾滋病毒/艾滋病健康差距预防研究的客座教授提供持续的同行审查和技术援助。我们将通过加州大学旧金山分校艾滋病预防研究中心(CAPS)的研究、教育和指导计划来实现这些目标。拟议项目的核心是一个培训机构，在那里，尚未获得R01级资金的客座教授可以参加一个为期三年的强化项目。每名客座教授连续三个夏天在CAPS驻校六周。在第一个夏天，该计划帮助客座教授将他们的想法发展为可行的研究和设计计划，并实施由该计划资助的试点研究。在学年期间，他们收集试点数据，然后在第二个夏天分析试点数据，并开始NIH拨款提案。在第二个夏天之后，他们在一次会议上介绍了他们的试验结果，并起草了手稿以供出版。在第三个夏天，他们完成了他们的提案并提交给NIH。拟议的计划处于有利地位，可以利用CAPS的独特环境，在社会/行为艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防研究方面提供量身定制的研究教育和指导，帮助计划参与者成为成功的独立调查人员，同时增加艾滋病毒/艾滋病科学家的多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks continuation of funding for The Training Program for Scientists Conducting Research to Reduce HIV/AIDS Health Disparities at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). This program addresses the urgent need highlighted in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for culturally competent HIV/AIDS prevention research in underserved communities most affected by HIV/AIDS. Our training program provides education and mentoring to early-career social and behavioral HIV/AIDS-prevention scientists who have demonstrated cultural expertise, a commitment to improving the health of underserved communities affected by HIV, and who are initiating innovative programs of research to advance the mental health-related objectives of the Office of AIDS Research Annual Strategic Plan and program priorities of the NIMH Division of AIDS Research. The aims of this five-year project are to: 1) Assist visiting professors in refining innovative ideas, concepts, and theories into clearly articulated and feasible HIV/AIDS prevention research programs focused on social, behavioral, and environmental influences associated with HIV/AIDS health disparities; 2) Provide funding and mentoring to the visiting professors to design and conduct significant and innovative pilot research that will provide preliminary data for subsequent grant proposals to NIH; 3) Provide education, mentoring, and technical assistance to visiting professors in the writing, submission, revision, and resubmission of NIH research grants focused on social/behavioral research with underserved communities (e.g., racial, ethnic, sexual minorities) experiencing HIV-related health disparities; and 4) Provide ongoing peer review and technical assistance to visiting professors who have completed the program and continue to conduct social/behavioral HIV/AIDS health disparities prevention research. We will accomplish these aims through a research education and mentoring program at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS). The centerpiece of the proposed program is a training institute in which visiting professors, who have not yet obtained R01-level funding, participate in an intensive program over a three-year period. Each visiting professor is in residence at CAPS for six weeks for three consecutive summers. In the first summer, the program helps visiting professors develop their ideas into feasible programs of research and design and implement a pilot study funded by the program. During the academic year they collect pilot data, then during the second summer analyze the pilot data and begin an NIH grant proposal. Following the second summer, they present their pilot results at a conference and draft manuscripts for publication. In the third summer, they complete their proposals and submit them to NIH. The proposed program is well positioned to leverage CAPS' unique environment to provide tailored research education and mentoring in social/behavioral HIV/AIDS- prevention research, assist program participants to become successful independent investigators, and simultaneously increase the diversity of HIV/AIDS scientists.