Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的西班牙裔药物滥用跨学科研究培训研究所（IRTI）旨在促进博士前、博士后和早期职业临床科学家的职业发展，这些科学家对开展影响西班牙裔人口的研究感兴趣。这个全面和协调的研究教育计划旨在提供研究经验，提高开发可测试假设，准备和提交适当的NIH校外资助研究申请所需的技能（即K01， K08, F31, F32, R03， R21等）。IRTI以国家西班牙裔科学网络的暑期研究培训所为基础，有两个短期目标和两个长期目标：(1)提高研究员进行药物滥用跨学科研究的知识和技能；(2)增加早期职业教师的数量，他们建立了充满活力和独立的药物滥用研究项目；(3)提高少数民族健康和健康差异研究的数量和质量；(4)通过缩小少数民族健康差距来改善少数民族的健康状况。IRTI的目标是：1。提供教育培训机会，通过实施为期14天的强化夏季研究培训计划，提高进行跨学科西班牙裔药物研究的技能，并为博士生、博士后和早期职业教师（研究员）开发NIH资助的应用程序；2. 执行一项指导计划，该计划将围绕一个跨学科导师团队进行组织和构建，该团队将为选定的研究员提供重点指导和持续支持；和3。提供一个网络结构和流程，以帮助研究员与西班牙药物研究领域的主要专家和同行建立和保持关系和沟通。总体而言，指导活动将侧重于指导和帮助研究员实现进步的基准，包括：a)学术职业发展；b)科学出版物；c)科学报告和d)研究经费。这些成果将通过各种类型的支持来促进，包括：导师承诺、前往导师机构、会议/研讨会、IRTI指导年会和IRTI科学会议。当代药物滥用研究的复杂性和技术性以及对跨多个学科的与药物有关的知识的日益增长的需求，要求有竞争力的研究人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，以促进为公共健康进行跨学科的药物滥用研究。拟议的国际药物研究所及其指导和网络组成部分将开始填补关于如何有效地开发特定孵化器的知识空白，这些孵化器将成功地培养特殊一代的药物滥用研究科学家。公共卫生相关性：拟议的西班牙裔药物滥用跨学科研究培训研究所（IRTI）旨在促进对开展影响西班牙裔人口的研究感兴趣的博士前、博士后和早期职业临床科学家的职业发展。当代药物滥用研究的复杂性和技术性以及对跨多个学科的与药物有关的知识日益增长的需求，要求有竞争力的研究人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，以促进进行跨学科的药物滥用研究。需要未来的跨学科研究团队来解决健康差距问题，这是一个重大的公共卫生问题，必须将来自若干科学领域的新知识结合起来，以确定和解决现存的脆弱性，并制定有效的预防和治疗干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (IRTI) on Hispanic Drug Abuse seeks to promote the career development of pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career clinically-focused scientists interested in conducting research as it affects the Hispanic population. This comprehensive and coordinated research education program aims at providing research experience and increasing the skills required for development of testable hypothesis, preparation and submission of research applications for appropriate NIH extramural funding (i.e. K01, K08, F31, F32, R03, R21, etc). Building upon the National Hispanic Science Network's Summer Research Training Institute, the IRTI has two short-term goals and two long-term goals as follows: (1) enhancing the fellows' knowledge and skills for conducting interdisciplinary research on drug abuse; (2) increasing the number of early career faculty who establish vibrant and independent programs of drug abuse research, (3) increasing the amount and quality of research on minority health and health disparities; and, (4) improving the health of minorities in part by decreasing minority health disparities. The aims of the IRTI are: 1. Provide an educational training opportunity that will enhance the skills for conducting interdisciplinary Hispanic drug research and developing applications for NIH funding among pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career faculty (fellows) through the implementation of a 14 day intensive summer research training program; 2. Execute a mentoring plan that would be organized and structured around a team of interdisciplinary mentors that would be accessible and available to provide selected fellows with focused mentoring and continual support; and 3. Provide a networking structure and process that will assist fellows in building and maintaining relationships and communication with leading experts in the field of Hispanic drug research and fellow peers. Overall, mentoring activities will focus on guiding and assisting the fellows in achieving benchmarks of progress including: a) Academic Career Progress; b) Scientific Publications; c) Scientific Presentations and d) Research Funding. These outcomes will be facilitated through various types of support including: Mentor Commitment, Travel to Mentor Institution, Conferences/Workshops, and IRTI Mentoring Annual Meeting and IRTI Scientific Conference. The complex and technical nature of contemporary drug abuse research and the growing demands for drug-related knowledge across several disciplines requires that competitive research investigators develop a broad-based set of scientific knowledge and scientific research skills that will facilitate the conduct of interdisciplinary drug abuse research in the interest of public health. The proposed IRTI and its mentorship and networking components will begin to fill the gap in knowledge of how to effectively develop specific incubators that will be successful in growing a special generation of drug abuse research scientists. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (IRTI) on Hispanic Drug Abuse seeks to promote the career development of pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career clinically-focused scientists interested in conducting research as it affects the Hispanic population. The complex and technical nature of contemporary drug abuse research and the growing demands for drug-related knowledge across several disciplines requires that competitive research investigators develop a broad-based set of scientific knowledge and scientific research skills that will facilitate the conduct of interdisciplinary drug abuse research. Interdisciplinary research teams of tomorrow are needed in addressing health disparities, a major public health problem for which new knowledge from several areas of science must be integrated to define and address extant vulnerabilities, and to develop effective prevention and treatment interventions.