Northwestern University Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (NU-MHRT)

摘要 理解和消除健康差距的努力受到不成比例的低收入和低收入国家的阻碍。 在生物医学、行为学、临床和社会科学中代表健康差异人群 研究，国内和全球。这对文化的适当性和质量有着深刻的影响 涉及健康差异人群的健康研究和卫生保健。拟议的培训计划 "西北大学少数民族 健康 和 健康 差距 研究 培训" ( nu MHRT ）将提供 为少数民族和其他代表性不足的学生和受训人员提供健康差距研究培训经验 （迄今为止的"学员"）在本科通过博士后水平，以准备和提高 下一代科学家致力于研究改善少数民族健康和减少健康 差距。NU-MHRT还将促进西北大学之间的健康差异研究培训伙伴关系 伊利诺伊大学（NU）和两个联邦指定的少数民族服务机构，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校 (UIC)东北伊利诺伊大学（NEIU）西北大学提供世界一流的研究培训 环境与国家的最先进的多学科和跨学科的研究计划，在健康 以理工科为重利用我们的跨学科团队的成熟的研究教师导师，除了我们的 良好的业绩记录促进了社区伙伴关系、参与、教育、外展和研究事业 来自健康差异人群的学生的发展，在5年内，该计划将提供指导 研究培训和沉浸式体验，个人职业发展，以及量身定制的教学式学习 为50名来自健康状况不均衡人群的受训人员提供晋升机会 在以医疗保健为重点的研究事业中。该计划的一个优势是西北大学的设置 大学在芝加哥，一个大都市地区充斥着健康的差距和孵化器的多样化，多- 旨在减少这些差距的学科研究计划，包括许多由PI和计划领导的计划 西北大学范伯格医学院、公共卫生研究所和 医学，以及罗伯特·H.卢里综合癌症中心。具体目标是：（1）提供健康 对50名受训人员进行差异研究培训（10人/年，包括5名本科生、3名预科生和2名博士后 培训生），来自不同的代表性不足的背景，以培养下一代科学家致力于 研究重点是改善少数民族健康和减少健康差距; 2）建立和支持一个 健康差距研究培训的研究导师和受训候选人骨干， NU和芝加哥地区机构之间的差异研究培训伙伴关系，为服务不足的健康服务 差异人口和代表性不足的学生; 3）正式评估受训者的进展和成功， 研究培训计划，成功招募高素质的多样化学员，在- 计划受训者实现计划目标的情况，以及计划后受训者的绩效/职业成果。

ABSTRACT Efforts to understand and eliminate health disparities are hampered by the disproportionately low representation of health disparities populations in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences research, domestically and globally. This has profound implications for the cultural appropriateness and quality of health research and health care involving health disparity populations. The proposed training program “Northwestern University Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training” ( NU MHRT ) will provide health disparities research training experiences to minority and other underrepresented students and trainees (heretofore “trainees”) at the undergraduate through postdoctoral levels in order to prepare and enhance the next generation of scientists committed to research for improving minority health and reducing health disparities. NU-MHRT will also foster a health disparities research training partnership between Northwestern University (NU) and two federally designated Minority Serving Institutions, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU). Northwestern offers a world class research training environment with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary research programs in the health sciences. Leveraging our transdisciplinary team of well-established research faculty mentors, alongside our strong track record fostering community partnership, engagement, education, outreach and research career development of students from health disparities populations, over 5 years this program will provide mentored research training and immersion experiences, individual career development, and tailored didactic learning opportunities to support the advancement of 50 trainees from health disparities populations to their next stage in health disparities-focused research careers. A strength of this program is the setting of Northwestern University in Chicago, a metropolitan area rife with health disparities and an incubator of diverse, multi- disciplinary research programs aimed at reducing those disparities, including many led by the PI and Program Faculty within Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Institute of Public Health and Medicine, and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. Specific Aims are: 1) Provide health disparities research training to 50 trainees (10/year, including 5 undergraduates, 3 pre-, and 2 post-doctoral trainees), from diverse underrepresented backgrounds, to foster the next generation of scientists committed to research focused on improving minority health and reducing health disparities; 2) Establish and support a cadre of research mentors and trainee candidates for health disparities research training by refining a health disparities research training partnership between NU and Chicago area institutions serving underserved health disparity populations and underrepresented students; 3) Formally evaluate trainee progress and the success of the research training program with respect to successful recruitment of highly qualified diverse trainees, within- program trainee achievement of program goals, and post-program trainee performance/career outcomes.