Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

翻译后摘要：社区联络和招聘核心：（CLRC） 虽然总体而言，美国亚裔是收入最高、受教育程度最高的少数族裔群体，但更多的亚裔生活在贫困线以下。 与白色美国人相比，贫困线以下的人不太可能参加生物医学研究， 比白色美国人在许多社会和健康结果上经历不平等。也许同样 重要的是，社区参与和支持不够， 美国社区将充分参与生物医学研究。这些障碍需要进一步 发展和实施亚裔美国人之间的可持续和公平的伙伴关系 社区和研究人员通过合作研究开发和相互转让知识 和专业知识来改善美国亚裔人口的健康。 芝加哥是这个亚洲RCMAR的理想场所，因为它拥有最多样化和最大的亚洲之一。 伊利诺伊州拥有美国第五大亚裔人口，主要集中在 在大芝加哥地区。从2000年到2010年，芝加哥的亚裔美国人增长了39 大都市地区，贫困人口增加了40%。我们的RCMAR和这个CLRC是建立在我们几十年的 汇集了调查人员的深入参与，信任，并与广泛的亚洲人口的研究， 芝加哥。这种实质性的参与和关系将创造必要的脚手架，以催化一个 增加急需的研究和科学劳动力的发展，以减少 改善亚洲老年人的健康状况。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了一个协同 多层次战略，通过以下方式优化研究人员的招聘、保留和参与 具体目标：1）在社区合作伙伴层面：建立一个可持续和协作的社区指导 社区和学术机构联系委员会，以促进社区参与、面向行动的健康 在芝加哥亚洲老年人群体中的推广研究; 2）在个别社区成员和 学者水平：扩大RCMAR学者和亚洲人之间的社区参与研究能力 社区成员通过文化上适当的，适合社区的，互惠的教育和培训， 生物医学和行为研究，以充分了解的障碍，挑战，社会文化背景， 在亚洲社区开展研究; 3）在个人研究参与者层面：促进 通过创新的、文化上和语言上的 适当的研究素养支持工具; 4）在社区，州，地区翻译RCMAR研究结果 与其他RCMAR核心协调的做法和政策， 中心和其他老龄人口研究中心。通过这些系统的、多层次的方法， 基于我们在过去十年中深入的社区和人种学经验，我们的芝加哥亚洲RCMAR 将开始填补美国老年亚洲人研究和研究人员的可怕空白。

Abstract: Community Liaison and Recruitment Core: (CLRC) While overall US Asians are the highest-income, best-educated minority group, more Asians live below the poverty line compared to white Americans, are less likely to enroll in biomedical research, and are more likely than white Americans to experience disparities in many social and health outcomes. Perhaps equally important, there has been inadequate community engagement and support necessary to empower the Asian American community to be fully engaged in biomedical research. These impediments necessitate further development and implementation of sustainable and equitable partnerships among the Asian American community and researchers through collaborative research development and reciprocal transfer of knowledge and expertise to improve the health of the U.S. Asian population. Chicago is the ideal setting for this Asian RCMAR as it has one of the most diverse and large Asian populations in the U.S. Illinois has the fifth largest Asian population in the U.S., which is primarily concentrated in the greater Chicago area. From 2000 to 2010, there was a 39% growth in Asian Americans in the Chicago metro area, with a 40% increase living in poverty. Our RCMAR and this CLRC are founded on decades of our assembled investigators' deep engagement, trust, and research with a wide range of Asian populations in Chicago. Such substantial engagement and relationships will create the essential scaffolding to catalyze an increase the much-needed research and scientific workforce development necessary to reduce disparities among and improve the health of Asian older adults. To accomplish this, we propose a synergistic multi-level strategy that optimizes research recruitment, retention, and engagement through the following specific aims: 1) At the Community Partner Level: Build a sustainable and collaborative community steering committee connecting community and academic institutions for community-engaged, action-oriented health promotion research in Chicago Asian older adult populations; 2) At the Individual Community Member and Scholar Levels: Expand community-engaged research capacity among RCMAR Scholars and Asian community members through culturally-appropriate, community-tailored, reciprocal education and training in biomedical and behavioral research to fully understand the barriers, challenges, socio-cultural context of conducting research in and with Asian communities; 3) At the Individual Research Participant Level: Facilitate the recruitment and retention of Asian older adults, through an innovative, culturally, and linguistically appropriate research literacy support tool; 4) Translate RCMAR research findings at community, state, regional and national levels to inform practice and policy coordinating with other RCMAR cores, with National RCMAR Centers and other aging population research centers. Through these systematic, multi-level approaches and based on our deep community and ethnographic experiences over the last decade, our Chicago Asian RCMAR will begin to fill the dire gap in research and in the research workforce focused on U.S. older Asians.