Short Courses for Teaching Gene-Environment Interactions with a focus on Environmental Justice Communities

教授基因与环境相互作用的短期课程，重点关注环境正义社区

基本信息

批准号：
10532594
负责人：
Kathleen Mead Vandiver
金额：
$ 22.2万
依托单位：
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-09-01 至 2027-06-30
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10532594
关键词：
Address Advisory Committees Attention Award Awareness Care given by nurses Cheyenne Collaborations Communication Communities Community Health Community Healthcare Complex Critiques DNA Development Discipline of Nursing Distance Learning Educational Curriculum Educational process of instructing Environmental Exposure Environmental Health Evaluation Familiarity Feedback Follow-Up Studies Foundations Funding Genes Genetic Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genomics Grant Growth Hand Health Health Professional Health Resources Health education Institution Instruction Internships Knowledge Lead Learning Legal patent Lenape Tribal Nation Measures Methods Modeling Molecular Molecular Biology Mutation National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Native-Born New Jersey Nurses Nursing Education Nursing Students Outcome Participant Persons Pre-Post Tests Process Proteins Public Health Quality of life Research Research Personnel Research Project Grants Resources Rivers Rural Science of genetics Series Set protein Sioux Indians South Dakota Structural Models Structure Techniques Training Translating Tribes Vulnerable Populations Work base career college community building environmental justice environmental toxicology follow-up formative assessment gene environment interaction health communication health disparity health practice health training improved lectures marginalized community marginalized population member multidisciplinary novel peer programs project-based learning prototype public health research ranpirnase response skills success symposium tribal college tribal community web site

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT There is a dramatic decline in the US on environmental health education and this is particularly noticeable in the training of health professionals. This MIT program in collaboration with peer P30 centers at NYU and UNM, will address health professionals’ need for training in genomics and environmental health with a one-week Short Course on gene-environment interactions. Two Short Courses will be taught each summer over the grant cycle with rural Tribal Colleges, serving the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes (CRST) in South Dakota, and the Nursing Students at Ramapo College serving the Ramapough Lenape Tribe in New Jersey. Also, an online evening course will be piloted for working nurses in the Dakotas. Providing such learning opportunities for nurses that work primarily with Indigenous populations and/or environmental justice communities will significantly contribute to building community public health in vulnerable populations. Teaching gene-environment interactions requires foundational familiarity with molecular biology and instructing the course participants on how to communicate this fundamental knowledge is an important skill learned in this short course. The participants will start each day with a lecture/discussion on a pre-selected, community-relevant environmental health topic. Lectures will be followed by a unique hands-on program using MIT-patented DNA and Protein models and pre- and post- tests will be used to measure participant learning gains. Each topical lecture will reinforce the hands-on molecular biology sessions, demonstrating specific applications for Environmental Justice Communities. Importantly, the skills of communicating gene-environmental concepts learned from the MIT Edgerton Center DNA Kit and Protein Kit to colleagues and community members will be practiced using different skill sets and critiqued during the short course. Training from these Short Courses will help participants communicate difficult topics including environmental exposures that cause genetic changes and protein responses. Short Course participants will develop an expanded skill set to understand and practice gene-environment interactions through examples, and will generate a health messaging product on a topic of their own choosing in environmental health to demonstrate skills gained in communication. A follow up study (3 months later) will be conducted to collect feedback on how participants have utilized their new knowledge about gene-environment interactions and communication skills. The proposed courses will fill a much-needed gap in health care professional training that has the potential to bring awareness and enhance quality of life to communities who need it the most.

项目摘要/摘要美国在环境健康教育方面的下降幅度急剧下降，这在卫生专业人员的培训。该MIT计划与纽约大学和UNM的Peer P30中心合作，将满足卫生专业人员对基因组学和环境健康培训的需求，仅一周短基因环境相互作用的课程。每年夏天将在赠款周期中教两门简短的课程在南达科他州的夏安河苏族部落（CRST）和哺乳拉马波学院（Ramapo College）的学生在新泽西州为拉马波（Ramapough Lenape）部落服务。另外，在线晚上当课程将在达科他州的工作护士驾驶。为护士提供此类学习机会主要与土著人口和/或环境司法社区合作将大大贡献在弱势群体中建立社区公共卫生。教学基因环境相互作用需要对分子生物学的基础熟悉，并指导课程参与者如何交流这种基本知识是在本短课程中学习的一项重要技能。参与者将每天开始通过有关预先选择的，与社区相关的环境健康主题的讲座/讨论。讲座将是然后是使用MIT抚养的DNA和蛋白质模型以及预测试的独特动手程序将用于衡量参与收益。每个局部讲座都会加强动手分子生物学会议，展示了环境正义社区的特定应用。重要的是，从MIT Edgerton Center DNA套件和将使用不同的技能集来实践给同事和社区成员的蛋白质套件简短的课程。这些简短课程的培训将帮助参与者交流困难的话题环境暴露会导致遗传变化和蛋白质反应。短期课程参与者将开发扩展的技能集，以通过示例来理解和实践基因环境的相互作用，将在他们自己选择的环境健康中生成健康消息传递产品以证明沟通中获得的技能。将进行后续研究（3个月后），以收集有关如何参与者利用了有关基因环境相互作用和沟通技巧的新知识。拟议的课程将填补医疗保健专业培训中急需的差距，有可能将意识和提高生活质量带给最需要它的社区。