Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的跨学科研究培训研究所（IRTI）西班牙裔药物滥用旨在促进有兴趣进行研究的博士前，博士后和早期职业临床为重点的科学家的职业发展，因为它影响西班牙裔人口。这个全面和协调的研究教育计划旨在提供研究经验，并提高可检验假设的发展，准备和提交适当的NIH校外资金研究申请（即K 01，K 08，F31，F32，R 03，R21等）所需的技能。在国家西班牙裔科学网络暑期研究培训所的基础上，IRTI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）增加建立充满活力和独立的药物滥用研究项目的早期职业教师的数量，（3）增加对少数民族健康和健康差距的研究的数量和质量;（4）通过减少少数民族健康差距来改善少数民族的健康。IRTI的目标是：1。提供一个教育培训机会，通过实施为期14天的暑期密集研究培训计划，提高进行跨学科西班牙裔药物研究和在博士前，博士后和早期职业教师（研究员）中开发NIH资助申请的技能; 2.执行一个指导计划，该计划将围绕一个跨学科导师团队进行组织和结构化，该团队将可以访问和提供，以向选定的研究员提供重点指导和持续支持;以及3.提供一个网络结构和过程，这将有助于建立和维护与西班牙裔药物研究领域的领先专家和同行的关系和沟通研究员。总体而言，辅导活动将侧重于指导和协助研究员实现进展基准，包括：a）学术职业进展; B）科学出版物; c）科学演讲和d）研究资金。这些成果将通过各种类型的支持，包括促进：导师承诺，前往导师机构，会议/研讨会，和IRTI导师年会和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几个学科的药物相关知识的日益增长的需求，要求有竞争力的研究调查人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，这将有利于为公共健康开展跨学科药物滥用研究。拟议的国际药物滥用研究倡议及其指导和联网组成部分将开始填补在如何有效发展特定的孵化器方面的知识差距差距，这些孵化器将成功地培养出一代特殊的药物滥用研究科学家。公共卫生相关性：拟议的跨学科研究培训研究所（IRTI）对西班牙裔药物滥用的目的是促进有兴趣进行研究，因为它影响西班牙裔人口的博士前，博士后和早期职业临床为重点的科学家的职业发展。当代药物滥用研究的复杂性和技术性以及对跨学科药物相关知识的日益增长的需求，要求竞争性研究调查人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，以促进进行跨学科药物滥用研究。未来的跨学科研究团队需要解决健康差距，这是一个重大的公共卫生问题，必须整合来自多个科学领域的新知识，以确定和解决现有的脆弱性，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.