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：CONVOY：纳瓦霍青年对生物医学科学的文化方法。 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“学校之间的动态合作、校外时间项目、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、 社区组织、青年和家庭”，并被确定为关键来源之一 通过开发先进的技术来收获人力资本并为新颖的干预措施做出贡献 我们将在传统本土知识和现代生物医学之间架起一座桥梁。 通过“CONVOY”开展科学：许多同行团体关注 K-12 和 K-12 的发展。 为服务不足的少数族裔社区提供本科生研究和教育计划，但有很多 很少有人关注医疗保健和生物医学科学。 具有健康差异相关研究经验、实验室实践培训等的学生 通过科学咖啡馆和健康博览会提供教育和交流机会，为他们的未来做好准备 医疗保健、生物制药和其他相关行业的领导力和职业生涯提案：“CONVOY”。 项目将汇集来自初中、高中（学员）和迪内学院的学生 （导师化身）以激发他们对生物医学和健康科学持久的好奇心——尤其是 纳瓦霍（迪内）青年和来自其他服务欠缺社区的学生，同时调整 “近对等”网络的概念，将当地的健康问题提交给公开论坛 具体目标： CONVOY，确定土著传统知识与现代科学之间的因果联系，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追求 生物医学科学及相关领域的职业；2) 培养弥合两者之间差距的整体实践； 纳瓦霍传统做法和西医开发可销售的陆基解决方案，同时 关注当地社区面临的问题；3) 为学生进入高等教育机构做好准备； 通过戴恩学院的双元学习并提供在高中获得大学学分的机会 生物医学科学招生计划，以及 4) 制定为期 10 周的暑期课程 支持“CONVOY”的活动 预期成果：“Convoy”的好处包括但不限于： 不限于： i) 开发需要适当的支持系统（近同伴指导），该系统将 作为培训和创新研究的主要技术支持，帮助提供更好的医疗保健 服务，ii) 更好地了解当地感染、疾病和健康差异的流行病学， iii) 在几个具有更广泛影响的关键领域加强当地劳动力发展 当前的 COVID-19 大流行或其他感染和疾病。