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NSF REU Site: Community-Engaged Training for Advancing Health Equity
This project takes place under support of a Summer REU grant from the National Science Foundation for research community-engaged methods for conducting health equity research. As part of that program, participating students will receive training in multiple community-engaged research approaches, including community-based participatory research (CBPR), social network and other decentralized community methods, community-engaged research in clinical settings, and community-engaged approaches with children. Based on these trainings, participants will develop hypotheses and learn how to design and conduct health disparities related research studies in order to employ these skills where possible in their summer research projects. Instruction will take place during the first week of the program and will be led by MHDI Core Faculty. Training will be used to enrich the students' experience during the subsequent 9 weeks. During this time, students will work with faculty members, postdoctoral students, graduate students, and others on an individual research project using data that has already been collected. At the conclusion of the program, participants will present their research at the Summer Research Symposium poster session.
2022-2023 Timeline
2023 Health Equity REU Projects
Sociocultural Influences on Youth’s Health and Educational Outcomes
Executive Control and Adolescent Health Trajectories
Social and Cultural Determinants of Women’s Sexual Health
Rural Substance Use in Puerto Rico and Nebraska
Promoting Resilient Youth with Strong Hearts and Minds (PRYSHM) Project
Rapid City Family Project (RCFP): Tiwahe Wicagwicayapi (Lakota for Strengthening Families)
Sexual Assault Among Sexual Minority Men
Culturally-Grounded Sexual Violence Prevention for Native Youth
Prevention Sex Trafficking Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse High School Students
Inequities in Chronic Disease, Mental Health, and Service Access
COVID-19 as a traumatic event among Latinxs in Nebraska
Disaster-focused mobile mental health