Northwestern NCTRI Education and Outreach Core

拟议的NCTRI西北平滑肌瘤研究中心的教育和外展核心将 通过发展沟通，推广和支持中心内部和整个中心的研究活动， 教育战略，以促进健康公平和消除子宫肌瘤（平滑肌瘤，LM）的差距。 这些战略旨在使三个重要群体参与：包括妇女在内的公众 受肌瘤影响最大的人;芝加哥地区的学生;以及科学和医学界。这一核心 将：（一）提高对LM和LM周围差异的认识，教育和宣传;（二）促进多样化 参与LM和生殖研究;以及（iii）增加实验室和转化科学的数量 LM的研究机会，特别关注少数民族和服务不足的学生，通过与关键合作， 本地管道计划，以连接学生在我们的中心板凳科学的机会。LM高度 普遍存在，在所有妇女中高达80%。然而，对这种高度病态的认识和知识 条件仍然不发达，特别是在非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲人等少数民族人口中 女性，也比她们的白色同伴有更高的子宫肌瘤患病率。此外，生物标本 少数种族/族裔和医疗服务不足妇女的捐赠和临床研究参与情况 继续不足，包括在LM研究领域。如果没有来自不同人群的样本， LM研究中的发现对不同人群的适用性有限， 诊断、治疗和结果。很少有生殖健康研究中心的目标是将教育和 外联活动，以建立信任，增加不同人群的研究参与， 一个多元化的未来科学工作者社区参与不足， 社区对临床研究和生物标本的认识、教育和参与受到限制， 捐赠。有必要发展和落实可持续的、公平的伙伴关系， 社区和研究人员通过合作研究的机会和相互转让知识 减少LM中的健康差异。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，特别是那些来自疾病负担最重的人口的妇女中。通过桥接 信息鸿沟和建立更强的信任与社区，我们将能够更好地改善 沟通和参与与工作和调查团队直接相关的研究 在我们提议的中心。此外，该核心旨在支持代表性不足的学生参与 科学研究的劳动力。基于数十年的社区参与研究经验， 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， 支持这条管道。我们将首先关注芝加哥的社区，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.