Training in Health Disparity Research for a Diverse Neuroscience Workforce

 描述(由申请人提供)：有许多报告发现中风、阿尔茨海默病、癫痫和帕金森病在护理、严重程度和残疾方面存在差异。尽管如此，神经学学科在分析社会经济和种族群体的病因、提供干预和治疗方面似乎落后于其他临床专业，这些因素导致弱势群体的结果明显不佳。2010年，NINDS召集了一个外部小组，审查NINDS进行的健康差距研究的优先事项、管理和监督，并向NINDS提供建议。在审查的结果中，结论是没有专门的机制来培训未来的健康差距研究人员。全国有几个流行病学项目专注于神经流行病学培训，但基本上所有的项目都要求学员拥有高级学位，通常是医学博士。这个项目的目标是招收来自不同背景的本科生，进入维克森林医学院神经科学、临床和人口健康差异研究的硕士项目。维克森林大学有四个独特的资源，使其成为拟议中的项目的理想机构：1)玛雅·安杰卢健康公平中心(MACH)，2)临床和人口转化科学硕士学位的经验，3)现有的神经科学研究生课程，4)公共卫生科学系。招收学生和与包括HBCU在内的区域本科机构合作，对于实现我们的目标将是重要的。这个想法是为了让学生对职业选择感兴趣，并培养他们对神经科学和了解神经疾病的热爱，这样一来，这些MS学生中的一部分将进入博士课程。该项目的成果将为神经科学、流行病学和生物统计学培训以及实际操作的实际研究项目奠定坚实的基础。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are numerous reports that have identified disparities in presentation for care, severity and disability for stroke, Alzheimer's Disease, epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease. Nonetheless, the neurology discipline appears to lag behind other clinical specialties in terms of analyzing the causes, delivery of interventions and treatments across socioeconomic and ethnic groups that result in apparent poor outcomes in disadvantaged populations. In 2010, NINDS convened an external panel to review and provide recommendations to NINDS with respect to the priority, administration and oversight of health disparities research conducted by NINDS. Among the results of the review was the conclusion that there is no specific mechanism for training future health disparity researchers. There are several epidemiology programs throughout the country that focus on neuroepidemiology training, but essentially all programs require trainees to have advanced degrees, most often MDs. The goal of this program is to recruit undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds into a Master's Program in Neuroscience Clinical and Population Studies of Health Disparities at the Wake Forest School of Medicine. There are four unique resources at Wake Forest University that make it an ideal institution for the proposed program: 1) The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity (MACHE), 2) experience through an established Master of Science in Clinical and Population Translational Sciences, 3) an established Neuroscience Graduate Program and 4) the Division of Public Health Sciences. Recruitment of students and collaboration with regional undergraduate institutions including HBCUs will be important for attaining our goal. The idea is to interest students a career choice and develops a love of neuroscience and understanding neurological disorders so that a proportion of these MS students will move onto PhD programs. The product of this program will be a solid foundation in Neuroscience, epidemiology and biostatistics training and hands- on, practical research projects.