Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请寻求继续资助加州大学旧金山分校的少数族裔人口预防研究人员培训计划(MPPRT)。这一培训计划解决了多学科研究计划的迫切需要，这些研究针对的是对美国弱势人群中艾滋病毒、其他性传播感染(STI)以及性健康和生殖健康(SRH)的个人、人际和结构层面的影响。MPPRT计划提供研究教育和指导，为职业生涯过早的社会和行为科学家提供研究教育和指导，这些科学家具有文化专长，致力于改善服务不足/弱势少数群体的健康，并正在发起创新的研究计划，以推进NICHD的艾滋病毒/性传播感染和性生殖健康相关目标。这个为期五年的项目的目标是：1)在客座教授(VP)中建立能力，以进行多学科的社会/行为HIV/STI和性与生殖健康(SRH)差异研究，涉及影响HIV/STI和SRH相关差异的结构、社会、文化和个人因素；2)为VP提供资金和指导，以设计和进行创新的试点研究，这些研究将在会议上展示，导致出版物，并为后续的联邦拨款提案提供信息；3)在撰写、提交、修订和重新提交侧重于社会/行为HIV/STI和SRH差异研究的联邦拨款方面，向VP提供教育、指导和援助；以及4)为完成项目的副总裁提供同行评审和咨询，以帮助他们作为独立的调查者和导师继续他们的HIV/STI和SRH差异研究的创新项目。拟议计划的核心将是针对尚未获得R01级别资金的副总裁的暑期强化培训计划。每名副总裁将在连续三个夏天的六周内上岗。在第一个夏天，该计划将帮助副总裁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。在第一个和第二个夏天之间的学年里，他们将收集试点数据。在第二个夏天，他们将分析试点数据，并开始NIH拨款提案。在第二个夏天之后，副总裁将在一次会议上介绍他们的试点成果和手稿以供出版，并继续编写他们的赠款提案草案。在第三个夏天，副总裁将完成他们的提案并提交给NIH。MPPRT计划将利用CAPS的独特环境来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，并帮助将这些杰出的科学家留在研究渠道中，其中许多人来自代表性不足的群体。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks continuation of funding for the Minority Populations Prevention Researcher Training Program (MPPRT) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). This training program addresses the urgent need for multidisciplinary programs of research targeting individual-, interpersonal-, and structural-level influences on HIV, other sexually-transmitted infections (STIs), and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) among U.S. vulnerable populations. The MPPRT program provides research education and mentoring too early- career social and behavioral scientists who have demonstrated cultural expertise, a commitment to improving the health of underserved/vulnerable minority populations, and who are initiating innovative programs of research to advance the NICHD's HIV/STI- and SRH-related objectives. The aims of this five-year project are to: 1) Build capacity among visiting professors (VPs) to conduct multidisciplinary social/behavioral HIV/STI and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) disparities research involving structural, social, cultural, and individual factors affecting HIV/STI- and SRH-related disparities; 2) Provide funding and mentoring to VPs to design and conduct innovative pilot research that will be presented at conferences, lead to publications, and inform subsequent federal grant proposals; 3) Provide education, mentoring, and assistance to VPs in the writing, submitting, revising, and resubmitting of federal grants focused on social/behavioral HIV/STI and SRH disparities research; and 4) Provide peer review and consultations to VPs who have completed the program to help them continue their innovative programs of HIV/STI and SRH disparities research as independent investigators and mentors. The centerpiece of the proposed program will be an intensive summer training program for VPs who have not yet obtained R01-level funding. Each VP will be at CAPS for six weeks for three consecutive summers. In the first summer, the program will help VPs develop their ideas into feasible programs of research and design and implement a pilot study funded by the program. During the academic year between the first and second summers, they will collect pilot data. During the second summer, they will analyze the pilot data and begin an NIH grant proposal. Following the second summer, VPs will present their pilot results at a conference and draft manuscripts for publication and continue to work on their grant proposal drafts. In the third summer, VPs will complete their proposals and submit them to NIH. The MPPRT program will leverage the unique environment at CAPS to provide tailored research education and mentoring, assist program participants to become successful independent investigators, and help retain these outstanding scientists, many of whom are from underrepresented groups, in the research pipeline.