Convoy: A Cultural approach of Navajo Youth to Biomedical Sciences

车队：纳瓦霍青年对生物医学科学的文化态度

• 批准号: 10664762
• 负责人: Shazia Tabassum Hakim
• 金额: $ 26.94万
• 依托单位: DINE' COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2028-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10664762
• 关键词: Advanced Development; Ally; Area; COVID-19 pandemic; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Critical Thinking; Curiosities; Development; Diné Nation; Disease; Dual Enrollment; Ecosystem; Education; Educational Curriculum; Enrollment; Epidemiology; Epistemology; Family; Focus Groups; Fostering; Future; Harvest; Health; Health Disparities Research; Health Fairs; Health Professional; Health Sciences; Healthcare; Indigenous; Infection; Institution; Intervention; K-12 student; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning; Link; Medicine; Mentors; Mentorship; Middle School Student; Modeling; Modernization; Museums; Navajo; Needs Assessment; Nursery Schools; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Peer Group; Private Sector; Public Health; Research; Resources; STEM career; STEM program; Schools; Science; Source; Students; Support System; Testing; Time; Training Support; Workforce Development; Youth; career; college; community organizations; disease disparity; experience; health care service; health disparity; high school; higher education; human capital; innovation; laboratory experience; minority communities; novel; peer; peer networks; programs; summer program; undergraduate education; undergraduate research; underserved community; underserved minority; university student

Summary: Project Title: CONVOY: A Cultural approach of Navajo Youth to Bio- medical Sciences. Need Assessment: STEM Learning Ecosystems are localized multi-stakeholder collaborative networks (MSCNs) that are “dynamic collaborations among schools, out-of-school time programs, STEM expert institutions (eg., museums, science centers, and institutions of higher education), the private sector, community-based organizations, youth and families”, and has been identified as one of the key sources to harvest human capital and contribute to novel interventions through the development of advanced knowledge. We will create a bridge between traditional indigenous knowledge and modern biomedical science via “CONVOY”. Peer Groups: Numerous peer groups focus on the development of K-12 and undergraduate research and education programs for underserved minority communities, but there are very few who are focusing on healthcare and biomedical sciences. This proposed activity will provide the students with health disparity-related research experiences, hands-on laboratory training, and other educational and communication opportunities via Science Café and Health Fairs to prepare them for future leadership and careers in healthcare, biopharma, and other associated professions. Proposal: “CONVOY” project will bring together students from Junior high schools, high schools (mentees) and Diné College (mentor avatars) in order to spawn their enduring curiosity in biomedical and health sciences — especially among Navajo (Diné) youth and students from other underserved communities— while adapting the concept of “near-peer” network to bring forward the local health issues to the open forums. Specific Aims: CONVOY, identifies causal links between Indigenous traditional knowledge and modern science to achieve four specific aims i.e., 1) Motivate Navajo high school and junior high school students to study and pursue careers in Biomedical Sciences and related fields; 2) Nurture holistic practices that bridge the gap between Navajo traditional practices and western medicine to develop a marketable land based solution, while focusing on problems faced by local communities; 3) Prepare students to enroll in institutions of higher learning and provide opportunities to earn college credit in high school through Dine College’s Dual Enrollment Program for biomedical sciences, and 4) Develop curriculum for a 10-week summer program to support activities by “CONVOY”. Expected Outcome: the benefits of the “Convoy” will include but are not limited to: i) Development of a need appropriate support system (near-peer-mentorship) that will serve as a main technical support for training and innovative research to help provide better healthcare services, ii) Greater understanding of the local epidemiology of infections, diseases and health disparities, iii) Increase local workforce development in several critical areas that have implications broader than current COVID-19 pandemic or other infections and diseases.

概括： 项目名称：车队：纳瓦霍（Navajo）青年对生物科学的文化方法。 需求评估：STEM学习生态系统是本地化的多利益相关者协作网络 （MSCN）是“学校，校外时间计划之间的动态合作，STEM专家 机构（例如，博物馆，科学中心和高等教育机构），私营部门， 基于社区的组织，青年和家庭”，已被确定为 收获人力资本，并通过高级发展为新颖的干预做出贡献 知识。我们将在传统的土著知识和现代生物医学之间建立桥梁 科学通过“车队”。同伴小组：许多同伴小组专注于K-12和 针对服务不足的少数民族社区的本科研究和教育计划 很少有人专注于医疗保健和生物医学科学。这项提出的活动将提供 具有与健康差异相关的研究经验，动手实验室培训和其他具有健康差异的学生 通过科学咖啡馆和健康展览会为未来做准备的教育和沟通机会 医疗保健，生物制药和其他相关专业人员的领导和职业。提案：“车队” 项目将汇集来自初中，高中（受训）和Diné学院的学生 （导师化身）为了产生其在生物医学和健康科学中的好奇心，尤其是 在纳瓦霍（Diné）青年和来自其他服务不足的社区的学生中， “近点”网络的概念将当地的健康问题带到了公开论坛上。具体目的： 车队确定土著传统知识与现代科学之间的因果关系以实现 四个具体目标，即1）激励纳瓦霍高中和初中学生学习和购买 生物医学和相关领域的职业； 2）培育整体实践，弥合 纳瓦霍（Navajo 专注于当地社区面临的问题； 3）准备学生入学更高的机构 学习并提供机会通过Dine College的双重学院在高中获得大学学分 生物医学科学的招生计划，以及4）为期10周的夏季计划开发课程 支持“车队”的活动。预期结果：“车队”的好处将包括，但 不仅限于：i）开发需要适当的支持系统（接近共进纪录） 作为培训和创新研究的主要技术支持，以帮助提供更好的医疗保健 服务，ii）对当地感染，疾病和健康分布的局部流行病学的了解， iii）增加在几个关键领域的当地劳动力发展，这些领域的含义比 当前的COVID-19-大流行或其他感染和疾病。