2/2 Langston University-UNTHSC Partnership for Cancer Research and Education

项目总结(总体) 随着目前美国人口继续以目前的速度增长，到2050年，近50%的美国人口 将来自医疗服务不足的弱势群体。有确凿的证据证明 少数群体代表性不足(来自代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的个人、有 残疾和弱势背景)在各级生物医学工作人员中(来自 从本科生水平到教授水平)。种族/族裔人口的发病率和/或 针对特定癌症类型的更具侵袭性的疾病。即使考虑到社会经济和获得 某些癌症的护理因素、发病率和死亡率在种族/民族人群之间仍然存在差异 类型。最近的研究表明，这些不平等的癌症负担可能是由于复杂的生物学需要 以增加我们对癌症健康差异的基本了解。缺乏多样性 在医疗保健和研究的专业领域，努力治疗和消除健康差距 它存在于美国各地流行的癌症中。这项提案将侧重于促进 通过发展研究所之间的伙伴关系，个人从事癌症研究和癌症差异 北得克萨斯大学健康科学中心(UNTHSC)和兰斯顿大学癌症研究 (Lu)，俄克拉荷马州唯一的历史上唯一的黑人学院。拟议中的伙伴关系的目标是促进 癌症相关研究，癌症研究经验和对本科生和 初级教员。每一项活动都将在联合国大学和联合国安全理事会共同制定和实施。我们会 通过三个具体目标实现我们的目标：目标1)建立一个行政核心(AC)，这将是 负责全面实施、管理和评估各项工作的成功 合作伙伴关系的组成部分，目标2)促进跨学科和协作的癌症研究，包括 来自UNTHSC和LU的教员，并支持两个试点研究项目，目标3)发展癌症研究 为学生和初级教师提供癌症教育、癌症研究的教育计划(CREP) 经验、实验设计、跨职业教育(IPE)和健康差距。我们的期望是 通过实现我们的目标，我们将直接影响我们最终实现建立一个长期的 LU和UNTHSC之间的长期伙伴关系，最终结果是获得多样化的人口 在与癌症相关的健康差距研究中，由代表性不足的人群组成。创新型 拟议的伙伴关系计划的特点是：(1)专注于发展卓越的研究和 癌症专业精神和代表不足和处于不利地位的学者之间的健康差距； (2)与跨专业培训计划和学术培训相结合的扩展主动教练；以及(3) 发展跨学科的癌症研究团队。这些活动将对增加 URM和其他弱势群体在与癌症相关的健康差距研究中取得的成功。

Project Summary (Overall) With the current US population continuing to grow at its current pace, nearly 50% of the US population in 2050 will be from medically underserved, vulnerable populations. Substantial evidence exists for the underrepresentation of minorities (individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds) in all levels of the biomedical workforce (from the undergraduate level to the professoriate). Racial/ethnic populations demonstrate increased incidence and/or more aggressive disease for specific cancer types. Even when accounting for socioeconomic and access to care factors, incidence and mortality differences persist between racial/ethnic populations for some cancer types. Recent studies indicate that these unequal cancer burdens may be due to a complex biology that needs to be investigated to increase our basic understanding of cancer health disparities. There is a lack of diversity in the professional fields of healthcare and research, which strive to treat and eliminate the health disparities that exist in cancer prevalent throughout the United States. This proposal will focus on promoting diversity in individuals engaged cancer research and cancer disparities by developing a partnership between the Institute for Cancer Research at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and Langston University (LU), the only historically black college in Oklahoma. The Objective of the proposed partnership is to promote cancer-related research, cancer research experience and cancer education to undergraduate students and junior faculty. Each of the activities will be jointly developed and implemented at LU and UNTHSC. We will meet our objectives through three Specific Aims: Aim 1) Establish an Administrative Core (AC) that will be responsible for the overall implementation, management, and evaluation of the success of the various components of the partnership, Aim 2) Promote interdisciplinary and collaborative cancer research involving faculty from UNTHSC and LU, and support two pilot research projects, and Aim 3) Develop a Cancer Research Education Program (CREP) that provides students and junior faculty with cancer education, cancer research experiences, experimental design, interprofessional education (IPE) and health disparities. Our expectation is that by meeting our objectives, we will directly impact eventual achievement of our goal of establishing a long- term partnership between LU and UNTHSC with an ultimate outcome of obtaining a diverse population comprised of underrepresented populations in health disparity research related to cancer. Innovative features of proposed partnership program are (1) focus on the development of research excellence and professionalism in cancer and health disparities among the underrepresented and disadvantageous scholars; (2) extended active coaching integrated with interprofessional training programs and academic training, and (3) developing interdisciplinary cancer research teams. These activities will have a significant impact on increasing the success of URM and other disadvantaged groups in health disparity research related to cancer.