Cancer Health Disparities Training Program

癌症健康差异培训计划

• 批准号: 7693114
• 负责人: MARCI K CAMPBELL
• 金额: $ 16.54万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7693114
• 关键词: Training Programs; cancer health disparity

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Cancer Health Disparities Training Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC Chapel Hill) is to educate and train talented scientists to become future leaders in cancer health disparities research. Although cancer incidence and mortality have stabilized since the early 1990s rates vary appreciably by race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. To be successful, strategies and approaches to address and ultimately eliminate these disparities should be interdisciplinary and incorporate a broad spectrum of research skills. Therefore, the focus of the UNC Chapel Hill Cancer Health Disparities Training Program will be to train public health researchers in the competencies needed to address and understand cross-cutting health disparity issues in cancer across the cancer continuum from etiology and primary prevention to survivorship. The program will be inclusive of the major cancers (lung, breast, colorectal, prostate, skin, and others) and cancer risk factors (e.g. diet, physical activity, obesity, tobacco, screening/early detection, and environmental exposures). Training will provide key educational and research knowledge necessary for the successful conduct of cancer health disparities research, including genetic and molecular epidemiological bases of disparities; cancer epidemiology; research methods; cancer prevention and control (screening/early detection, health promotion, health communications, community-based participatory research, dissemination, policy); disparities related to access to care, socioeconomic status, culture, and survivorship; and critical thinking and synthesis. Training for three postdoctoral fellows per year will be offered by four participating departments in the UNC School of Public Health: Nutrition, Epidemiology, Health Behavior and Health Education, and Environmental Sciences and Engineering. The post-doctoral trainees will gain experience and develop expertise in cancer health disparities research through a three-tier strategy; 1) a specialized curriculum consisting of academic coursework, a field experience, journal club, seminars and conferences, and ethics and cultural competency training; 2) a hands-on research experience; and 3) career trajectory mentoring. Each trainee will have at least two mentors from different disciplines. Trainers will be leading cancer disparities researchers from diverse and multiple disciplines drawn from various departments in the UNC School of Public Health and affiliated schools, centers, and institutes. A Training Advisory Committee composed of leaders across the participating departments will select trainees, monitor and evaluate their progress, and advise the Program Director and her Leadership Team. The combination of our experienced and diverse group of trainers, the unique and considerable institutional strengths of UNC Chapel Hill, and the wide-ranging proposed training plan provides an ideal and outstanding environment for a comprehensive program to train future leaders in cancer health disparities research.

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC Chapel Hill）癌症健康差异培训计划的目标是教育和培训有才华的科学家，使其成为癌症健康差异研究的未来领导者。尽管自 20 世纪 90 年代初以来，癌症发病率和死亡率已趋于稳定，但癌症发病率和死亡率因种族、民族、性别和社会经济地位的不同而存在明显差异。为了取得成功，解决并最终消除这些差异的策略和方法应该是跨学科的，并包含广泛的研究技能。因此，北卡罗来纳大学教堂山癌症健康差异培训计划的重点将是培训公共卫生研究人员所需的能力，以解决和理解从病因学和初级预防到生存的整个癌症连续体中癌症的跨领域健康差异问题。该计划将涵盖主要癌症（肺癌、乳腺癌、结直肠癌、前列腺癌、皮肤癌等）和癌症风险因素（例如饮食、体力活动、肥胖、烟草、筛查/早期检测和环境暴露）。 培训将提供成功开展癌症健康差异研究所需的关键教育和研究知识，包括差异的遗传和分子流行病学基础；癌症流行病学；研究方法；癌症预防和控制（筛查/早期发现、健康促进、健康传播、社区参与性研究、传播、政策）；与获得护理、社会经济地位、文化和生存相关的差异；以及批判性思维和综合。北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院的四个参与系每年将为三名博士后研究员提供培训：营养学、流行病学、健康行为和健康教育以及环境科学与工程。博士后学员将通过三层战略获得癌症健康差异研究方面的经验和专业知识； 1）专业课程，包括学术课程、现场体验、期刊俱乐部、研讨会和会议以及道德和文化能力培训； 2）有实际研究经验； 3）职业轨迹指导。每个学员将有至少两名来自不同学科的导师。培训师将是来自北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院及附属学校、中心和研究所各个部门的来自不同和多个学科的主要癌症差异研究人员。由参与部门的领导组成的培训咨询委员会将挑选受训者，监督和评估他们的进度，并向项目总监及其领导团队提供建议。 我们经验丰富且多元化的培训师团队、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校独特且可观的机构优势以及广泛的拟议培训计划相结合，为培训癌症健康差异研究未来领导者的综合计划提供了理想和卓越的环境。