Community Engagement Core

项目摘要/摘要：社区参与的核心 深南中心减少慢性病差距的使命是促进健康公平 并减轻包括肥胖、糖尿病和高血压在内的心脏代谢疾病的负担 南方腹地。该中心将专注于心脏代谢性疾病的预防、治疗和管理 在美国黑人和低收入人群中，他们患有不成比例的这些疾病 这个地区。该中心通过应用精确的公共卫生方法在主题上统一 在整个保健连续体中实现健康公平。精准的公共卫生，最好的理解是“提供正确 在正确的时间对正确的人群进行干预“，承认背景、文化、 个人信念和偏好，以实现和维护健康公平。这种方法还突出了 需要公平地纳入非学术合作伙伴，以帮助将与背景相关的研究转化为 社区和系统层面的干预措施。因此，中心的社区参与核心(CEC) 作为培养真实、多产和可持续的学术社区的中央组织单位 促进南方腹地地区卫生公平的伙伴关系。CEC包括卫生方面的专业知识 差异、社区参与的研究、以地点为基础的研究、健康促进、健康政策、生物伦理、 通信和研究传播。CEC将由莫妮卡·巴斯金博士(加州大学 阿拉巴马州伯明翰分会)，他将负责CEC的总体方案指导和运作。 她将得到共同领导卡罗琳·康普雷塔博士(密西西比大学医学中心)以及 负责CEC各种活动的其他教员，包括Stephanie Broyles博士(Pennington 生物医学研究中心)和维维安·卡特博士和斯蒂芬·索迪克博士(塔斯基吉大学)。堆芯 领导层将与社区联盟密切合作，并依赖于社区联盟的投入，该联盟由不同的 非学术合作伙伴组织以及包括社区在内的单独社区咨询委员会 代表中心研究目标人群的成员。CEC将为以下项目提供整体支持 该中心的使命是改善健康公平，减少心脏代谢性疾病的差异 南向：1)扩大和保持学术-社区双向区域伙伴关系；2)准备 一支进行社区参与研究的跨学科生物医学研究队伍；3) 促进翻译研究的新思路，源于两国之间的双向交流 调查人员和社区成员；以及4)向社区成员提供与文化相关的健康 改善健康和减轻疾病负担的宣传材料、可行战略和新资源 该地区。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE The mission of the Deep South Center to Reduce Disparities in Chronic Diseases is to promote health equity and reduce the burden of cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, across the Deep South. The Center will focus on the prevention, treatment and management of cardiometabolic diseases among Black Americans and low-income populations who suffer disproportionately from these conditions in this region. The Center is unified thematically through the application of the precision public health approach across the care continuum to achieve health equity. Precision public health, best viewed as “providing the right intervention to the right population at the right time”, acknowledges the importance of context, culture, individual beliefs and preferences to achieve and maintain health equity. This approach also highlights the need for equitable inclusion of non-academic partners to help translate contextually-relevant research into community and systems-level interventions. As such, the Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the Center serves as the central organizing unit for cultivating authentic, productive, and sustaining academic-community partnerships to promote health equity in the Deep South region. The CEC includes expertise in health disparities, community-engaged research, place-based research, health promotion, health policy, bioethics, communications, and research dissemination. The CEC will be led by Dr. Monica Baskin (University of Alabama at Birmingham) who will be responsible for overall programmatic direction and operations of the CEC. She will be supported by co-lead, Dr. Caroline Compretta (University of Mississippi Medical Center) as well as additional faculty responsible for various CEC activities, including Dr. Stephanie Broyles (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) and Drs. Vivian Carter and Stephen Sodeke (Tuskegee University). Core leadership will work closely with, and rely on input from, a community coalition comprised of various nonacademic partner organizations as well as a separate community advisory board including community members representative of targeted populations for Center research. The CEC will provide integral support for the Center’s mission to improve health equity and reduce cardiometabolic disease disparities in the Deep South by: 1) expanding and maintaining bi-directional academic-community regional partnerships; 2) preparing a transdisciplinary biomedical research workforce for the conduct of community-engaged research; 3) facilitating novel lines of translational research derived from bi-directional communication between investigators and community members; and 4) equipping community members with culturally-relevant health promotion materials, actionable strategies and new resources to improve health and reduce disease burden in the region.