Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute on Hispanic Drug Abuse

西班牙裔药物滥用跨学科研究培训机构

• 批准号: 8306243
• 负责人: Avelardo Valdez
• 金额: $ 31.54万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8306243
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Area; Benchmarking; Communication; Complex; Development; Discipline; Drug abuse; Education; Educational workshop; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Funding; Generations; Goals; Health; Hispanics; Incubators; Institutes; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Knowledge; Mentors; Mentorship; Nature; Outcome; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Preparation; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Scientist; Structure; Training; Training Programs; Travel; United States National Institutes of Health; base; career; career development; experience; health disparity; improved; interest; meetings; minority health; peer; pre-doctoral; programs; skills; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (IRTI) on Hispanic Drug Abuse seeks to promote the career development of pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career clinically-focused scientists interested in conducting research as it affects the Hispanic population. This comprehensive and coordinated research education program aims at providing research experience and increasing the skills required for development of testable hypothesis, preparation and submission of research applications for appropriate NIH extramural funding (i.e. K01, K08, F31, F32, R03, R21, etc). Building upon the National Hispanic Science Network's Summer Research Training Institute, the IRTI has two short-term goals and two long-term goals as follows: (1) enhancing the fellows' knowledge and skills for conducting interdisciplinary research on drug abuse; (2) increasing the number of early career faculty who establish vibrant and independent programs of drug abuse research, (3) increasing the amount and quality of research on minority health and health disparities; and, (4) improving the health of minorities in part by decreasing minority health disparities. The aims of the IRTI are: 1. Provide an educational training opportunity that will enhance the skills for conducting interdisciplinary Hispanic drug research and developing applications for NIH funding among pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career faculty (fellows) through the implementation of a 14 day intensive summer research training program; 2. Execute a mentoring plan that would be organized and structured around a team of interdisciplinary mentors that would be accessible and available to provide selected fellows with focused mentoring and continual support; and 3. Provide a networking structure and process that will assist fellows in building and maintaining relationships and communication with leading experts in the field of Hispanic drug research and fellow peers. Overall, mentoring activities will focus on guiding and assisting the fellows in achieving benchmarks of progress including: a) Academic Career Progress; b) Scientific Publications; c) Scientific Presentations and d) Research Funding. These outcomes will be facilitated through various types of support including: Mentor Commitment, Travel to Mentor Institution, Conferences/Workshops, and IRTI Mentoring Annual Meeting and IRTI Scientific Conference. The complex and technical nature of contemporary drug abuse research and the growing demands for drug-related knowledge across several disciplines requires that competitive research investigators develop a broad-based set of scientific knowledge and scientific research skills that will facilitate the conduct of interdisciplinary drug abuse research in the interest of public health. The proposed IRTI and its mentorship and networking components will begin to fill the gap in knowledge of how to effectively develop specific incubators that will be successful in growing a special generation of drug abuse research scientists. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed Interdisciplinary Research Training Institute (IRTI) on Hispanic Drug Abuse seeks to promote the career development of pre-doctoral, postdoctoral and early career clinically-focused scientists interested in conducting research as it affects the Hispanic population. The complex and technical nature of contemporary drug abuse research and the growing demands for drug-related knowledge across several disciplines requires that competitive research investigators develop a broad-based set of scientific knowledge and scientific research skills that will facilitate the conduct of interdisciplinary drug abuse research. Interdisciplinary research teams of tomorrow are needed in addressing health disparities, a major public health problem for which new knowledge from several areas of science must be integrated to define and address extant vulnerabilities, and to develop effective prevention and treatment interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的西班牙裔药物滥用跨学科研究培训机构（IRTI）旨在促进对影响西班牙裔人口的研究感兴趣的博士前、博士后和早期职业临床科学家的职业发展。这项全面、协调的研究教育计划旨在提供研究经验并提高开发可检验假设、准备和提交适当的 NIH 外部资金（即 K01、K08、F31、F32、R03、R21 等）的研究申请所需的技能。 。 IRTI 以国家西班牙裔科学网络夏季研究培训学院为基础，有两个短期目标和两个长期目标： (1) 提高研究员进行药物滥用跨学科研究的知识和技能； (2) 增加建立充满活力和独立的药物滥用研究项目的早期职业教师的数量，(3) 提高关于少数族裔健康和健康差异的研究的数量和质量； (4) 通过缩小少数群体的健康差异来部分改善少数群体的健康。 IRTI 的目标是： 1. 通过实施 14 个项目，提供教育培训机会，提高博士前、博士后和早期职业教员（研究员）开展跨学科西班牙药物研究和开发 NIH 资助申请的技能。日间强化暑期研究培训计划； 2. 执行一项指导计划，该计划将围绕跨学科导师团队进行组织和构建，该团队可以为选定的研究员提供有针对性的指导和持续支持； 3. 提供一个网络结构和流程，帮助研究员与西班牙药物研究领域的领先专家和同行建立和维持关系和沟通。总体而言，指导活动将侧重于指导和协助研究员实现进步基准，包括： a) 学术职业进步； b) 科学出版物； c) 科学演讲和 d) 研究经费。这些成果将通过各种类型的支持来促进，包括：导师承诺、导师机构旅行、会议/研讨会以及 IRTI 导师年会和 IRTI 科学会议。当代药物滥用研究的复杂性和技术性以及跨学科对药物相关知识日益增长的需求要求竞争性研究人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，以促进跨学科药物滥用研究的进行为了公众健康。拟议的 IRTI 及其指导和网络组成部分将开始填补如何有效开发特定孵化器的知识空白，这些孵化器将成功培养新一代药物滥用研究科学家。公共健康相关性：拟议的西班牙裔药物滥用跨学科研究培训机构 (IRTI) 旨在促进对影响西班牙裔人口的研究感兴趣的博士前、博士后和早期职业临床科学家的职业发展。当代药物滥用研究的复杂性和技术性以及跨学科对药物相关知识日益增长的需求要求竞争性研究人员发展一套基础广泛的科学知识和科学研究技能，以促进跨学科药物滥用研究的进行。未来的跨学科研究团队需要解决健康差异，这是一个重大的公共卫生问题，必须整合多个科学领域的新知识来定义和解决现有的脆弱性，并制定有效的预防和治疗干预措施。