UCLA Center for Population Health & Health Disparities Research Education Program

项目总结/摘要 我们建议设立一个短期的“研究教育计划”，以增加多样性， 健康相关研究，旨在增加代表性不足的本科生人数 以及对健康差异研究感兴趣并参与其中的健康专业学生， 特别关注减少拉丁美洲人群的心血管疾病（CVD）。的 该计划将成为我们新的NHLBI资助（P50）人口健康中心的一部分， 健康差距（CPHHD），它将被纳入CPHHD目前的培训和 职业发展计划。加州大学洛杉矶分校CPHHD正在进行密集的家庭和 社区环境干预措施，以改善食物和身体活动景观， 东洛杉矶，加州（东洛杉矶），它使用跨学科的方法来理解 并对这个低收入、高风险的拉丁裔社区的心血管疾病差异进行干预。的焦点 教育和培训是为了创造一种新的健康差异研究者， 考虑微观，个人，家庭，系统和社区层面的因素，有助于 CVD在拉丁美洲人口的差异，并整合板凳和社会科学的方法。我们 拟议的计划将利用CPHHD的跨学科调查小组 来自生理学、流行病学、心理学、精神病学、营养科学、健康 宣传、卫生传播、生物统计、媒体和艺术。过程中 五年的计划，我们将招募和选择40名代表性不足的学生从 加州大学洛杉矶分校的本科课程，并从加州大学洛杉矶分校的公共卫生，医学，护理， 和牙科，以及其他当地大学，如南方大学 加州（南加州大学），参加该计划。每年夏天，四对夫妇组成的 一名本科生和一名健康专业的学生将与加州大学洛杉矶分校CPHHD合作 investigators.学生将接受密集的一对一指导并参加 讨论会和讲习班，重点是健康差距研究和政策、保健专业 准备和培训和职业发展，他们将被要求写一份报告， 并在科学和专业会议上向CPHHD研究人员介绍他们的工作。 我们期望大部分学生会选择进入卫生专业 计划或研究生涯侧重于健康差距。我们将进行两个过程， 结果评估，以确定方案的成功。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT We propose to establish a Short-term "Research Education Program" to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research, that aims to increase the number of underrepresented undergraduate and health professional students interested and engaged in health disparities research, particularly focused on reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in Latino populations. The program will become part of our new NHLBI-funded (P50) Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD), and it will be integrated into the CPHHD's current Training and Career Development Program. The UCLA CPHHD is conducting intensive home and neighborhood environment interventions to improve the food and physical activity landscape in East Los Angeles, California (East L.A.), and it uses interdisciplinary methods to understand and intervene on CVD disparities in this low-income, high-risk Latino community. The focus of the education and training is to create a new kind of health disparities researcher, who considers the micro, individual, family, systems and community level factors that contribute to CVD disparities in Latino populations and integrates bench and social science approaches. Our proposed program will take advantage of the CPHHD's interdisciplinary team of investigators from the fields of physiology, epidemiology, psychology, psychiatry, nutritional sciences, health promotion, health communications, biostatistics, and media and the arts. Over the course of the five years of the program, we will recruit and select 40 underrepresented students from the UCLA undergraduate program and from the UCLA Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry, as well as from other local universities, such as the University of Southern California (USC), to participate in the program. Each summer, four dyads comprised of an undergraduate student and a health professions student will be partnered with UCLA CPHHD investigators. Students will receive intensive one-on-one mentoring and will participate in seminars and workshops focused on health disparities research and policy, health professions preparation and training and career development, and they will be expected to write a report and present their work to the CPHHD investigators and at scientific and professional meetings. It is our expectation that the majority of the students will choose to enter a health professions program or research career focused on health disparities. We will conduct both process and outcome evaluation to determine program success.