Northwestern NCTRI Education and Outreach Core

拟建的NCTRI西北平滑肌瘤研究中心的教育和推广核心将 通过发展沟通、推广和支持中心内部和跨中心开展的研究活动 促进健康公平和消除子宫肌瘤(肌瘤)差异的教育战略。 这些战略将设计成让三个重要社区参与：普通公众，包括妇女。 受肌瘤影响最大的是芝加哥地区的学生，以及科学和医学界。此核心 将：(1)提高对土地利用和土地利用差距的认识、教育和宣传；(2)促进多样化 参与LM和生殖研究；以及(3)增加长凳和翻译科学的数量 通过与Key合作，特别关注少数族裔和未得到充分服务的学生在LM的研究机会 当地渠道计划，将学生与我们中心内的板凳科学机会联系起来。LM是高度的 普遍存在于高达80%的所有女性中。然而，对这一高度病态的意识和知识 条件仍然不发达，特别是在非裔美国人和拉丁裔等少数群体中 女性子宫肌瘤的患病率也高于白人女性。此外，生物素 少数民族和医疗服务不足妇女的捐献和临床研究参与情况 继续做不到这一点，包括在LM研究领域。如果没有来自不同人群的样本， 在LM研究中的发现对不同人群的适用性将是有限的，这将使 诊断、治疗和结果。很少有生殖健康研究中心致力于将教育和 扩大建立信任的范围，增加不同人群的研究参与 一支多元化的、未来的科学队伍。不充分的社区参与和多样化的授权 社区限制了他们对临床研究和生物医学的认识、教育和参与。 捐款。有必要发展和实施可持续、公平的伙伴关系 社区和研究人员通过合作研究机会和知识的互惠转让 以减少农村地区的健康差距。通过社区参与的方法(例如，基于社区 参与式设计)，该核心旨在提高对LM研究的认识、教育和参与 在妇女中，特别是来自疾病负担最重的人群的妇女中。直通桥接 信息鸿沟和与社区建立更强的信任，我们就能够更好地改进 围绕并参与与工作和调查团队直接相关的研究 在我们拟建的中心。此外，该核心旨在支持代表人数不足的学生参与 科研队伍。在数十年社区参与研究的经验基础上， 外展和劳动力发展，教育和外展核心团队将提供实验室经验，以 支持这条管道。我们首先将重点放在芝加哥各地的社区，然后扩大到美国。

The Education and Outreach Core of the proposed NCTRI Northwestern Leiomyoma Research Center will support research activities performed within and across the Center by developing communication, outreach, and education strategies to promote health equity and eliminate disparities in uterine fibroids (leiomyoma, LM). These strategies will be designed to engage three important communities: the general public, including women most impacted by fibroids; students in the Chicago area; and the scientific and medical community. This Core will: (i) raise awareness, education, and outreach regarding LM and disparities around LM; (ii) promote diverse participation in LM and reproductive research; and (iii) increase the number of bench and translational science research opportunities in LM with a special focus on minority and underserved students by partnering with key local pipeline programs to connect students to bench science opportunities within our Center. LM are highly prevalent, present in up to 80% of all women. However, awareness and knowledge regarding this highly morbid condition remain underdeveloped, especially amongst minority populations such as African American and Latina women, who also have a higher prevalence of fibroids than their white counterparts. Moreover, biospecimen donation and clinical research participation among racial/ethnic minority and medically underserved women continues to fall short, including in the realm of LM research. Without samples from diverse populations, discoveries in LM research will have limited applicability to diverse populations, perpetuating disparities in diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes. Few reproductive health research centers aim to connect education and outreach to building trust and increasing research participation from diverse populations in addition to increasing a diverse, future scientific workforce. Inadequate community engagement and empowerment of diverse communities has limited their awareness, education, and participation in clinical research and biospecimen donation. There is a need for development and implementation of sustainable, equitable partnerships between communities and researchers through collaborative research opportunities and reciprocal transfer of knowledge to reduce health disparities in LM. Through a community-engaged approach (e.g., community-based participatory design), this Core seeks to increase awareness, education, and participation in LM research amongst women, especially those from populations bearing the greatest burden of the disease. Through bridging the information gap and establishing stronger trust with communities, we will be able to better improve communication around and participation in research that directly connects with the work and investigative teams in our proposed Center. In addition, this Core aims to support the engagement of underrepresented students in the scientific research workforce. Building on decades of experience with community-engaged research, outreach, and workforce development, the Education and Outreach Core team will provide lab experiences to support this pipeline. We will first focus on communities across Chicago and then scale up to the US.