The Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP): Exploring Research Across the Cancer Continuum and into Underserved Communities

癌症研究学者计划 (CRSP)：探索癌症连续体和服务不足社区的研究

基本信息

批准号：
10454951
负责人：
Melinda Sue ButschKovacic
金额：
$ 26.68万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-01 至 2026-08-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10454951
关键词：
Academia Address Adopted African American Attention Basic Science Breast Bronchi Cancer Biology Cancer Center Cancer Etiology Cancer Patient Cancer Survivorship Career Choice Caring Cause of Death Cessation of life Clinical Collaborations Colon Communication Communities Community Networks Community Outreach Counseling Critical Thinking Cultural Diversity Dangerousness Development Discipline Discipline of Nursing Education Education and Outreach Educational workshop Ensure Environmental Health Evaluation Event Faculty Fellowship Program First Generation College Students Foundations Funding Future Generations Goals Grief reaction Health Health Professional Health Promotion Healthcare Human Immersion Infrastructure Internships Investments Laboratories Lead Learning Life Lung Malignant Neoplasms Medical center Medicine Mentors NCI Scholars Program Ohio Oral Pancreas Pediatric Hospitals Persons Play Population Postdoctoral Fellow Prevention Process Prostate Public Health Race Rectum Reduce health disparities Reporting Research Research Design Research Personnel Research Training Science Self Efficacy Services Social Environment Students Surveys Survivors System Testing Time Training Underrepresented Minority United States United States Dept. of Health and Human Services United States National Academy of Sciences Universities Vulnerable Populations Work anticancer research cancer care cancer education cancer prevention career cervical and uterine cancer cohort community engaged research cultural competence early screening experience faculty mentor graduate student health disparity health inequalities implicit bias improved innovation interest member men microaggression minority health mortality notch protein nutrition patient population programs recruit responsible research conduct screening senior faculty skills social social health determinants socioeconomics sound success summer internship supportive environment survivorship undergraduate research undergraduate research experience undergraduate student underserved community

项目摘要

Abstract / Summary Cancer is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Lack of access to advances in cancer prevention, early screening, and treatment, particularly in low socioeconomic, underserved communities, are cited as substantial barriers to improving cancer survivorship. Public health experts have indicated that the social environment in which people live, learn, work, and play also contributes to notable cancer health inequities and is among the most important determinants of health throughout life. Overcoming the growing complexity of this problem will require a much larger, diverse, and dedicated workforce. The current pipeline of cancer-focused health care professionals and researchers that understand and manage the impact of these determinants of health and appropriately engage and connect with their target communities and patient populations is dangerously inadequate and likely to widen the gap even further. To address this critical need to expand our future culturally competent, cancer-focused workforce, the University of Cincinnati (UC) and its affiliates collectively seek to establish and support a Cancer Research Scholars Program (CRSP). Our focus will be on creating unique and inspiring research and educational experiences to qualified undergraduate students of all races and backgrounds from across the nation and to implement a program that greatly increases the number of graduate program matriculants. Important to our success will be CRSP's highly-engaged Cancer Mentor Network (CMN). We are adopting a systems-over-silos approach (i.e., an approach that crosses health care professions and covers the entire spectrum of cancer care built around the CMN including faculty from across the UC Cancer Center and residing at both UC and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Our faculty are focused on topics across the cancer continuum including cancer etiology, prevention/screening/health promotion, clinical cancer research and survivorship. To ensure our Scholars' success, we will: (1) proactively recruit 20-22 outstanding summer scholars, including at least 8 underrepresented minorities, with an interest in cancer research with the established infrastructure of our highly successful Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program; (2) provide training in the essentials of research (e.g., responsible conduct of research, research design, analysis, etc.), the fundamentals of cancer research across the continuum and an understanding of social determinants of health and their impact on cancer inequities; (3) offer research experiences in top-notch cancer laboratories that closely match the Scholars' career interests; (4) actively engage them in a supportive and enthusiastic environment in which they interact professionally and socially with other Scholars, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty; (5) provide innovative education that strengthens academic and professional development to facilitate entry into cancer graduate programs and cancer career pathways; (6) deliver team science, cultural competency, micro-aggression and implicit bias training for the entire CRSP/CMN community; (7) offer community-engaged, immersive, and cancer-focused field experiences to our Scholars and CMN to encourage future community-engaged research, education and outreach; and (8) ensure long-term investment in each Scholar that extends beyond the initial proposed summer funding period. We expect that our program will, if successful, have a payoff of decades of enthusiastic and dedicated cancer researchers for generations to come.

摘要/总结癌症是美国的主要原因之一。缺乏早期获得癌症预防进展的机会筛查和治疗，特别是在社会经济地位低下、服务不足的社区，被认为是实现这一目标的重大障碍。提高癌症生存率。公共卫生专家表示，人们生活、学习、生活的社会环境工作和娱乐也会导致显着的癌症健康不平等，并且是健康的最重要决定因素之一一生。克服这个日益复杂的问题需要更大、更多样化、更专注的团队劳动力。当前以癌症为重点的医疗保健专业人员和研究人员的渠道了解和管理癌症这些健康决定因素的影响，并与目标社区和患者适当接触和联系人口严重不足，而且差距可能进一步扩大。为了满足这一迫切需要，扩大我们的辛辛那提大学 (UC) 及其附属机构共同寻求未来具有文化能力、专注于癌症的劳动力建立并支持癌症研究学者计划（CRSP）。我们的重点将是创造独特且鼓舞人心的为来自全国各地的所有种族和背景的合格本科生提供研究和教育经验并实施一项大幅增加研究生项目入学人数的计划。对我们的成功很重要将成为 CRSP 高度参与的癌症导师网络 (CMN)。我们正在采用系统而非筒仓的方法（即跨医疗保健专业并涵盖围绕 CMN 构建的整个癌症护理范围的方法，包括来自加州大学癌症中心的教职员工，居住在加州大学和辛辛那提儿童医院医疗中心。我们的教师专注于整个癌症连续体的主题，包括癌症病因学、预防/筛查/健康促进、临床癌症研究和生存。为确保学者的成功，我们将：（1）积极招募20-22名优秀学者暑期学者，包括至少 8 名代表性不足的少数族裔，对癌症研究感兴趣，并已建立我们非常成功的夏季本科生研究奖学金 (SURF) 计划的基础设施； (2) 提供培训在研究的要点（例如，负责任的研究行为、研究设计、分析等）中，跨连续体的癌症研究以及对健康的社会决定因素及其对癌症影响的了解不平等； (3) 提供与学者的职业兴趣密切相关的一流癌症实验室的研究经验； (4) 积极让他们处于一个支持性和热情的环境中，在其中进行专业和社交互动与其他学者、研究生、博士后以及初级和高级教师； (5)提供创新教育加强学术和专业发展，以促进进入癌症研究生课程和癌症职业途径； (6) 为整个团队提供团队科学、文化能力、微攻击和隐性偏见培训 CRSP/CMN社区； (7) 为我们的学者提供社区参与、沉浸式且以癌症为中心的现场体验 CMN 鼓励未来社区参与研究、教育和推广； (8)确保长期投资每位学者的资助期限超出了最初提议的夏季资助期限。我们希望我们的计划能够，如果成功，将为子孙后代数十年的热情和奉献的癌症研究人员带来回报。