Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity

美国印第安人和农村健康公平中心(CAIRHE)的使命是减少显著 蒙大拿州土著和农村社区的健康差距，同时将初级教师培养成一名 独立卫生公平调查员的多学科队列。该中心通过以下方式完成其使命 基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)和公共卫生干预措施 与社区的文化信仰相一致。蒙大拿州社区面临严重的健康差距，影响 其公民的健康公平和生活质量。作为蒙大拿州立大学唯一专注于 土著和农村卫生，并作为蒙大拿州指定的蒙大拿州研究中心 大学系统董事会，CAIRHE将在其科布雷第二阶段期间工作，结合严格的 科学和干预与深思熟虑的社区参与。该中心的总体目标是 Cobre第二阶段拨款旨在将CAIRHE定位为多学科、社区和社区领域的州和地区领导者 以健康公平研究为基础，并加强中心的职业指导计划和可持续发展计划，以 增加获得独立地位的中心调查人员的数量。在第二阶段，通过这两个 研究和试点项目，CAIRHE将开发卫生干预措施和护理系统分析，以 在药物滥用和心理健康、营养和慢性病领域服务不足的人口 预防，以及婴儿和孕产妇健康结果与该州最新的社区健康相一致 评估需求。该中心将继续在蒙大拿州培养一大批健康公平研究人员 通过雇用一名或多名教员研究人员，通过在卫生研究设计和CBPR方面培训初级研究人员， 并通过执行其针对调查人员独立地位的职业指导计划。此外，在 CAIRHE期间将加强其合作的蒙大拿州IDEA社区参与核心，与 密歇根州立大学的另外两个机构发展奖(IDEA)项目，以支持 土著和农村社区。该中心还将扩大对社区参与的使用，并 研究移动实验室，服务于农村和边境社区，并增加社区咨询委员会 全州的运力。该中心将在两个中心内扩大翻译生物医学研究能力 和整个大学通过在第一阶段建立的翻译生物标记核心，作为 该中心更广泛的可持续发展计划，CAIRHE将继续建设其区域卫生公平网络 合作伙伴-包括临床组织、公共卫生机构、基金会和其他利益相关者- 以扩大卫生公平研究、合作、资金来源和传播。

The mission of the Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE) is to reduce significant health disparities in Native and rural communities across Montana while developing junior faculty into a multidisciplinary cohort of independent health equity investigators. The Center achieves its mission through community-based participatory research (CBPR) and public health interventions that are considerate of and consistent with communities' cultural beliefs. Montana communities face severe health disparities that affect health equity and quality of life among its citizens. As the only center at Montana State University focusing on Native and rural health, and as a research center for the state of Montana as designated by the Montana University System Board of Regents, CAIRHE will work during its COBRE Phase II period to combine rigorous science and interventions with thoughtful community engagement. The overarching aim of the Center's COBRE Phase II grant is to position CAIRHE as the state and regional leader in multidisciplinary, community- based health equity research, and to strengthen the Center's Career Guidance Plan and Sustainability Plan to increase the number of Center investigators achieving independent status. During Phase II, through both research and pilot projects, CAIRHE will develop health interventions and systems analysis of care to underserved populations in the areas of substance abuse and mental health, nutrition and chronic disease prevention, and infant and maternal health outcomes in line with the state's latest community health assessment needs. The Center will continue to develop a critical mass of health equity researchers in Montana by hiring one or more faculty investigators, by training junior investigators in health research design and CBPR, and by executing its Career Guidance Plan targeting independent status for investigators. Furthermore, during the period CAIRHE will enhance its collaborative Montana IDeA Community Engagement Core, shared with two other Institutional Development Award (IDeA) programs at MSU, to support health equity research in Native and rural communities. The Center also will expand its use of the Community Engagement and Research Mobile Lab, serving rural and frontier communities, and increase Community Advisory Board capacity statewide. The Center will expand translational biomedical research capacity within both the Center and the university at large through the Translational Biomarkers Core established during Phase I. As part of the Center's broader Sustainability Plan, CAIRHE will continue to build its regional Health Equity Network of partners—including clinical organizations, public health agencies, foundations, and other stakeholders—in order to expand health equity research, collaboration, funding sources, and dissemination.