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

项目概要/摘要 药物使用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病是影响弱势种族/族裔群体健康的复杂疾病， 少数群体，主要是由于健康差距很大。在确定潜在的 这些疾病的原因，并改善其识别，预防和治疗，需要一个工作， 跨学科的研究团队由共同的使命团结在一起，由连接的基础设施支持， 在一个非常适合研究目标疾病和差异的地理位置。研究中心在 迈阿密-戴德佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）的少数民族机构（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公平和差异： 药物使用问题和艾滋病毒问题。迈阿密戴德郡的吸毒率很高 问题和该国艾滋病毒发病率最高的国家之一，代表性不足的少数民族在大幅度提高 风险的物质使用问题和艾滋病毒感染的重大健康差距，我们的RCMI打算打击。金融情报室是 少数民族服务机构（MSI），并在2016年秋季有近50，000名学生（79%来自代表性不足的少数民族）。 FIU在西班牙裔的学士、硕士和博士学位方面排名全国第一，在所有学位方面排名第二。 少数群体FIU-RCMI的健康差距研究议程与FIUBeyondPossible 2020战略密切相关 计划，其中包括对扩展，学生的成功，并在健康研究和社区参与的重点 教育关于健康差距、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 2016年，卫生不公平和差距是仅有的四个学术领域之一，以获得金融情报室新兴的指定 卓越计划，表明大学目前致力于集群招聘和基础设施支持健康 差距研究。FIU-RCMI将包括五个核心-行政、研究基础设施、调查员 发展、社区参与和招聘-每一项都旨在促进和支持FIU-RCMI的 使命、目标和目的。我们预期金融情报室-区域监测和监测机制相关保健差距的成果 研究活动包括：引用NIH支持的出版物大幅增加; 向NIH和其他资助组织提交的提案增加;大幅增加卫生赠款 对更多的调查员，特别是来自代表性不足的少数群体的调查员，给予不平等待遇; 大幅增加专业发展活动;大幅提高国家在卫生领域的地位 差异研究;从长远来看，在药物滥用和艾滋病毒方面， 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.