Career Enhancement Core

癌症预防和控制领域已经扩大，然而，在长期贫困的社区，特别是那些接受过多学科合作培训的社区，致力于癌症预防的训练有素和经验丰富的研究人员队伍仍然太少，无法充分促进癌症预防和控制的最新水平。我们的总体目标是培训美国早期职业研究人员，让他们加入一支能够有目的地领导癌症预防和控制/人口科学多方面关键研究工作的学者队伍。这种培训对于在服务不足的情况下成功研究和实施健康计划和实践至关重要，在癌症研究培训中或在癌症预防和控制的广泛计划中往往不会强调足够的细节。在这样的职业道路上取得长期成功还需要职业导航、韧性和职业坚持性方面的技能，这些技能可以通过正式培训、指定导师的指导和榜样来培养，这些技能将成为职业促进核心(CEC)的一部分，并贯穿整个拟议的变革性社区驱动研究中心，以预防肥胖相关癌症。职业提升核心计划(CEC)的具体目标是：(1)招募、选拔和培训高绩效的早期职业科学家，在服务不足的社区，特别是在持续贫困地区领导癌症预防研究；(2)提供各种癌症预防学科的指导性研究培训经验；(3)开发多学科癌症课程，重点关注持续贫困的驱动因素及其影响、社区环境中使用的研究方法，以及该领域专业人员的职业发展；以及(4)评估该计划的有效性，并跟踪受训人员的情况。CEC利用其与两个研究项目(Bright Ter Bites；癌症后的积极生活)和其他核心项目的整合，包括由BeWell基础设施资助的活动。对于两名区域招聘的博士后和两名国家招聘的博士后研究员(一名由U54奖支持，另一名博士后研究员由认捐的机构资金支持)，在为期3年的任用中，参与核心旨在将受训人员与嵌入社区组织的体验式学习机会联系起来，帮助他们学习如何与他们建立关系。CEC的一个新方面是，它创建了一个新的社区行动讲习班系列，以促进开展社区研究，并为受训者和社区组织工作人员设立了一个新的格兰茨基尔讲习班，以共同培训协同作用和促进合作。赠款培训将围绕发展核心发起的RFA进行组织和安排，它们将帮助教授这些RFA。研究和方法学核心领导还将为新的格兰茨基讲习班提供指导，并为受训人员项目数据收集和分析提供指导和支助。学员将围绕中心的两个研究项目(BB和ALAC)建立他们的指导研究项目。

The field of cancer prevention and control has grown, however, the cadre of trained and experienced researchers dedicated to cancer prevention in underserved communities grappling with persistent poverty, particularly those trained for multidisciplinary collaboration, remains too small to sufficiently advance the state of the art in cancer prevention and control. Our overall goal is to train early career investigators in the US to join a cadre of scholars who are able and purposefully lead key research efforts in multiple aspects of cancer prevention and control/population science. Such training is critical for success in research and implementation of health programs and practices in underserved settings and are not often emphasized in cancer research training or with sufficient detail in broad programs of cancer prevention and control. Long-term success in such career paths also requires skills in career navigation, resilience, and career persistence that can be fostered through formal training, mentorship by assigned mentors, and role models that will be part of the Career Enhancement Core (CEC) and throughout the proposed Center for Transformative Community Driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer. The specific aims of the Career Enhancement Core (CEC) are to (1) recruit, select, and train high-performing early career scientists for careers leading cancer prevention research in underserved communities, specifically in persistent poverty areas; (2) provide mentored research training experiences in a variety of cancer prevention disciplines; (3) develop a multidisciplinary cancer curriculum with emphasis on drivers of persistent poverty and its impact, research methods used in community settings, and career development for professionals in the field; and (4) evaluate the Program’s effectiveness and track trainees over time. The CEC takes advantage of its integration with the two Research Projects (Brighter Bites; Active Living After Cancer) and the other Cores, including activities funded by the BeWell infrastructure. For two regionally recruited doctoral students and two nationally recruited postdoctoral fellows (one supported by the U54 award, an additional postdoctoral fellow supported by pledged institutional funds), in 3-year appointments, the Engagement Core serves to connect trainees with opportunities for experiential learning embedded within community organizations, helping them learn how to foster relationships with them. A novel aspect of the CEC is its creation of a new Community Action Workshop series to foster conducting community research and a new Grantsmanship Workshop for trainees and community organization staff to train together for synergy and fostering collaborations. The grant training will be structured and scheduled around RFAs launched by the Development Core, for which they will help teach. Leaders of the Research and Methodology Core will also provide support for instruction for the new grantsmanship workshop, as well as providing guidance and support for trainee project data collection and analysis. Trainees will build their mentored research projects around the two research projects of the center (BB and ALAC).