Training
The IHPR, its programs and its leader provide extensive mentoring and training opportunities to high-school students, pre-doctoral students, and post-doctoral junior faculty members:
- The IHPR’s Redes En Acción project provides early career training/mentoring for junior faculty in the area of National Institutes of Health grant development and project implementation, and offers internships that provide training to early-career bachelor’s and master’s students who want more experience conducting social science research.
- IHPR faculty members accept roles as mentors and advisors for junior faculty at various institutions on training grants (K and R awards).
- IHPR faculty members collaborate with the University of California, San Francisco on a pre-doctoral student training program that annually places one Latino student in a summer institute that prepares them for pursuing a degree in public health research.
- The IHPR’s “Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children, a new project dedicated to fighting Latino childhood obesity and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will offer early-career researchers and students support in the same way the Redes project does.
As the IHPR continues to expand, its mentorship program will continue to be revised to meet the demands to train faculty and identify mentorship opportunities for the IHPR faculty at affiliated institutes.