Pipelines into Quantitative Aging Research

定量老化研究的管道

• 批准号: 10673697
• 负责人: REBECCA A. BETENSKY
• 金额: $ 36.78万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10673697
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Advisory Committees; Aging; Alzheimer' s disease model; Attention; Autopsy; Big Data; Biometry; Career Choice; Country; Data Analyses; Data Science; Development; Disease; Disparity; Diverse Workforce; Education; Education Projects; Epidemiology; Faculty; Funding Opportunities; GRE Preparation; Goals; Health Personnel; Individual; Instruction; Joints; Journals; Learning; Life; Machine Learning; Medicine; Mentors; Methods; Minority Groups; Oral; Outcome; Participant; Persons; Population; Process; Public Health; Research; Research Project Grants; Science; Series; Site Visit; Statistical Computing; Students; Talents; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Visit; aging population; biomarker selection; career; cohort; community building; design; epidemiology study; ethnic disparity; ethnic minority; experience; faculty mentor; follow-up; graduate school; graduate student; improved; informal learning; interest; lectures; meetings; minority investigator; minority undergraduate; posters; programs; racial disparity; racial minority; response; responsible research conduct; social; student mentoring; summer program; symposium; undergraduate education; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

Project Summary It is well documented that a diverse workforce has the potential to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, which have strong effects in aging populations1-3. As the percentage of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. population increases, including among the aged population, the public health workforce should reflect this diversity1,4,5. With an increase in undergraduate public health majors across the country6,7, due in part to heightened excitement and opportunities in data science and quantitative big data analysis, and with breakthroughs in the science of aging on the horizon, this is an opportune moment to develop strong pipeline programs for underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates. We will target URM undergraduates who have quantitative and computational interests and expose them to opportunities for graduate study and research careers, and the possibilities and excitement of marrying their quantitative interests with substantive research in aging. Introducing undergraduates, who are more diverse in public health majors than other majors7, and than graduate students6, to careers in public health, holds much promise for increasing the diversity of graduate students and faculty in the field, which has increased very little in the past 20 years6. This holds for the MSTEM subfields of public health, such as Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Science, as well. Motivated by these factors, and in response to NIA Funding Opportunity (PAR-17-290), “MSTEM: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education (R25),” we propose an intensive, six-week summer program for 12 undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds with interests in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Data Science and other quantitative methods to learn about the applications of these methods in aging research. The summer program includes formal instruction, a broad lecture series, mentored research projects, oral research presentation at an annual symposium, career and professional development sessions, site visits to labs and other research settings, group and informal mentoring, social activities and network building, and training in responsible conduct of research. To reinforce the intensive summer experience, we will continue to offer group and individual mentoring and research experiences into the following academic years. Additionally, we will offer a select group of summer program participants the opportunity to return to NYU during the January term for an extended research experience and a quantitative course. With the guidance of a professional evaluator and internal and external advisory committees, we will evaluate all aspects of our program and review results in real-time to enable constant adjustment and improvement. Our proposal addresses three critical needs to strengthen and galvanize the research enterprise in the field of aging: increased engagement of MSTEM experts, increased engagement of URM researchers, and increased attention to disparities. We believe that our intensive and long-term programmatic components will support the entry of talented URM students into successful careers in MSTEM research in aging.

项目摘要 有充分的文献证明，潜水员的劳动力有可能减少种族和种族分布，这 在衰老人群中有很强的影响1-3。作为美国种族和少数民族的百分比 人口增加，包括年龄人口中的人口，公共卫生劳动力应反映这一点 多样性1,4,5。全国公共卫生专业的本科生增加了6,7，部分原因是 增加了数据科学和定量大数据分析的兴奋和机会，并随着 地平线上的衰老科学的突破，这是发展强大管道的机会 代表性不足的少数民族（URM）本科生的计划。我们将针对URM本科生 具有定量和计算兴趣，并将其暴露于研究生学习的机会和 研究职业以及将其定量利益与实质性结合的可能性和兴奋 衰老研究。介绍本科生，他们比其他领域的潜水者更重要 Majors7，而不是研究生6，从事公共卫生职业，对增加 该领域的研究生和教职员工的多样性在过去20年中几乎没有增长。这 还为公共卫生的跨国领域，例如生物统计学，流行病学和数据科学。 受这些因素的激励，并回应NIA资助机会（Par-17-290），“系统：前进 通过本科教育（R25）的衰老研究多样性，”我们提出了一个密集的六周 来自代表性不足背景的12位本科生的夏季计划，对生物统计学的兴趣， 流行病学，数据科学和其他定量方法，以了解这些方法的应用 在衰老研究中。夏季计划包括正式教学，广泛的讲座系列，指导了研究 项目，每年研讨会，职业和专业发展课程的口头研究演讲， 现场访问实验室和其他研究环境，小组和非正式心理，社交活动和网络 建造和负责任的研究培训。为了加强密集的夏季体验，我们 将继续为以下学术提供小组和个人心理和研究经验 年。此外，我们将为一组精选的夏季计划参与者提供机会返回 纽约大学在一月份的学期中获得了扩展的研究经验和定量课程。与 专业评估以及内部和外部咨询委员会的指导，我们将评估所有 我们计划和审查的各个方面实时结果，以实现不断的调整和改进。 我们的提议解决了加强和加强研究企业领域的研究企业的三个关键需求 衰老：增加了系统专家的参与度，URM研究人员的参与度增加并增加 注意差异。我们认为，我们的密集和长期编程组件将支持 才华横溢的URM学生进入衰老研究中的成功职业。