NARCH Undergraduate Student Career Enhancement Project

摘要 项目摘要： 医学研究所（IOM）建议增加少数民族卫生专业人员的数量， 消除健康差距的战略，预计培训美洲印第安人和阿拉斯加土著人 （AIAN）研究人员可以引起注意和关注AIAN人口中普遍存在的问题， 减少健康差距。不幸的是，美国印第安人是最不可能坚持一年后， 与其他少数民族相比，四年制大学。人们提出了多个原因， 少数群体在STEM（STEM）领域的代表性不足和/或缺乏持久性，其中之一是目标 不一致低保留率的原因包括不同的，但可以包括家庭义务，财务 困难，低学术支持/学术歧视，不准备大学学者。 AIAN发展计划的健康公平领导力（LEAD）有望成为最成功的 AIRCH至今 我们建议创建和实施AIAN发展健康公平领导（LEAD）证书 该方案旨在：（1）缩小教育结构中固有的不平等造成的差距;（2） 解决限制AI学生在一级研究中竞争力的机会不平等问题 机构和HSTEM领域;（3）通过队列发展建立团队环境，其中AIAN 学生体验成功和对成功的责任作为一个集体的过程;（4）提供一个 学习环境实践AIAN文化协议，进一步提高学生的能力，实现 发挥潜力，消除潜在障碍。 相关性：领导能力方案是提高文化敏感和 与社区有关的研究，以减少健康差距。成功完成拟议的领导能力发展方案 该计划将增加生物医学研究的劳动力多样性。国际环境与发展学院将帮助培养一批AIAN干部 对部落社区优先考虑的健康公平问题感兴趣的科学家， 文化资产，以促进学术坚持。

ABSTRACT Project Summary: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends increasing the number of minority health professionals as a key strategy to eliminate health disparities and it is expected that training American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) researchers can bring attention and focus to the issues that prevail in the AIAN population thereby reducing health disparities. Unfortunately, American Indians are the least likely to persist after the first year in a four-year college compared to other minority populations. Multiple reasons have been proposed for the underrepresentation and/or lack of persistence of minorities in the STEM (STEM) fields, one of which is goal incongruence. Reasons for low retention rates include vary but can include family obligations, financial difficulties, low academic support/academic discrimination and not being prepared for University academics. The Leadership in Health Equity for AIAN Development program (LEAD) promises to be the most successful AIRCH thus far. We propose to create and implement the Leadership in Health Equity for AIAN Development (LEAD) certificate program to: (1) mitigate the gaps that result from inequalities that are embedded in educational structures; (2) address the unequal access to opportunities that limit AI student competitiveness in a Tier 1 research institution and the HSTEM field; (3) build a team environment through cohort development where AIAN students experience success and accountability toward success as a collective process; and (4) provide a learning environment practicing AIAN cultural protocols that further enhances the students' abilities to realize their potential and mitigate potential barriers. Relevance: The LEAD program is a milestone in building greater capacity for culturally sensitive and community-relevant research to reduce health disparities. Successful completion of the proposed LEAD program will increase workforce diversity in biomedical research. LEAD will help to promote a cadre of AIAN scientists interested in health equity issues prioritized by tribal communities and integrates social and cultural assets to promote academic persistence.