FIU Center for Reducing Health Disparities in Substance Abuse & HIV in South Florida

项目摘要/摘要 药物使用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病是影响弱势种族/族裔健康的复杂疾病。 少数群体，主要是由于严重的健康差距。在确定根本原因方面取得重大进展 这些疾病的病因，并改进它们的识别、预防和治疗，需要一个 跨学科的研究人员团队由共同的使命联合起来，由互联的基础设施提供支持，并开展工作 在一个非常适合研究目标疾病和差异的地理位置。位于北京的研究中心 迈阿密-戴德的佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)的少数族裔机构(RCMI)将专注于发展和 维持国家临床和行为研究计划，解决与以下方面相关的健康不平等和差异 药物使用问题和代表不足的少数群体的艾滋病毒问题。迈阿密-戴德有很高的药物使用率 问题和该国艾滋病毒发病率最高的国家之一，代表不足的少数族裔的比例大幅上升 药物使用问题和艾滋病毒感染的风险--我们的RCMI打算与显著的健康差距作斗争。FIU是 这是一个为少数族裔服务的机构(MSI)，2016年秋季有近50,000名学生(79%来自代表不足的少数族裔)。 FIU在西班牙裔的学士、硕士和博士学位上排名全国第一，在所有人的学位上排名第二 少数族裔。FIU-RCMI健康差距研究议程与FIUBeyondPososble2020战略密切一致 计划，其中包括强调扩展、学生成功和社区参与健康研究和 教育。关于健康差距以及药物使用问题和艾滋病毒的研究，现在是金融情报室的中心重点。在……里面 2016年，健康不平等和不平等是仅有的四个获得FIU新兴学科称号的学术领域之一 卓越计划，表明该大学目前致力于集群招聘和卫生基础设施支持 差异研究。FIU-RCMI将包括五个核心-行政、研究基础设施、调查员 发展、社区参与和招募--每一项都旨在促进和支持FIU-RCMI 使命、目标和目的。我们预期FIU-RCMI相关健康差距的结果能力扩展、培训 和指导，以及研究活动包括：引用NIH支持的出版物大幅增加； 向NIH和其他赠款组织提交的提案增加；大幅增加了对卫生的拨款 给予更多调查员的不平等待遇，特别是来自代表性不足的少数群体的调查员； 大大增加了职业发展活动；大大提高了国家在卫生方面的显赫地位 差异研究；从长远来看，在药物滥用和艾滋病毒方面的健康差异显著减少 迈阿密-戴德少数民族社区。

Project Summary/Abstract Substance use and HIV/AIDS disease are complex disorders that affect the health of disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups, largely due to significant health disparities. To make significant progress in identifying the underlying causes of these diseases, and improve their identification, prevention, and treatment, requires the work of a transdisciplinary team of researchers united by a common mission, supported by a connected infrastructure, and working in a geographical location ideally suited for the study of the targeted diseases and disparities. The Research Center in Minority Institutions (RCMI) at Miami-Dade’s Florida International University (FIU) will focus on developing and sustaining a national clinical and behavioral research program addressing health inequities and disparities associated with substance use problems and HIV for underrepresented minorities. Miami-Dade has a high prevalence of substance use problems and one of the highest HIV incidences in the country, with underrepresented minorities at substantially elevated risk for substance use problems and HIV infection—significant health disparities that our RCMI intends to combat. FIU is a minority serving institution (MSI), and in Fall 2016 had nearly 50,000 students (79% from underrepresented minorities). FIU ranks first nationally in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees to Hispanics, and second in degrees to all minorities. The FIU-RCMI health disparity research agenda aligns closely with the FIUBeyondPossible2020 Strategic Plan, which includes an emphasis on expansion, student success, and community engagement in health research and education. Research on health disparities, and on substance use problems and HIV, are now central emphases for FIU. In 2016, health inequities and disparities was one of only four academic areas to receive the designation of FIU Emerging Preeminent Program, indicating the university’s current commitment to cluster hiring and infrastructure support for health disparities research. The FIU-RCMI will include five cores—Administrative, Research Infrastructure, Investigator Development, Community Engagement, and Recruitment—each designed to advance and support the FIU-RCMI’s mission, goals, and aims. Outcomes we anticipate from FIU-RCMI-related health disparities capacity expansion, training and mentorship, and research activities include: substantially increased publications citing NIH support; substantially increased proposal submissions to NIH and other granting organizations; substantially increased grants on health disparities awarded to a greater number of investigators, particularly those from underrepresented minority groups; substantially increased professional development activities; substantially increased national prominence in health disparities research; and, in the longer term, substantially decreased health disparities in substance abuse and HIV among Miami-Dade minority communities.