MINORITY ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER

本项目的目标是建立联盟和组织 田纳西州纳什维尔的梅哈里医学院所需的结构， 伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学（UAB）建立一个区域性的 少数民族口腔健康研究中心。 我们的具体目标是： 1.在Meharry和UAB之间建立科学联盟， 为区域少数民族口腔健康研究提供永久性基础 中心 这将通过建立小型的口腔健康研究来实现 两个组织的调查人员都参与的项目。 这些项目 专注于结缔组织和口腔微生物学。 2.增加从事口腔健康的少数民族牙医人数 research. 这将通过提供教师发展来实现 少数民族牙医的机会，在一个研究项目， 口腔植物群流行病学。 教师发展的背景 该计划将是一个既定的研究计划在UAB和扩展 该计划的纳什维尔作为一个小的研究项目;延长将是 由正在进行研究开发的教职员工进行。 3.支持教师发展计划并提供资源 通过建立一个核心的口腔健康研究， 微生物学实验室在Meharry的牙科学校。 4.促进少数民族参与口腔健康研究。 这将是 使少数民族UAB调查人员能够开展试点项目， 旨在为校外支持提供有竞争力的申请。 5.为少数民族的口头教育建立共同的行政基础设施， 健康研究。 这将通过建立一个中心来实现 发展核心管理整个项目，加强 我们的组织之间的联盟，培养与区域的关系， 牙科学校，并鼓励少数民族学生进行口腔健康 research.

The goal of this project is to construct the alliances and organizational structure necessary for Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee and the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) to establish a Regional Research Center for Minority Oral Health. Our specific aims are: 1. To construct scientific alliances between Meharry and UAB that will furnish a permanent basis for a regional minority oral health research center. This will be done by establishing small, oral health research projects which involve investigators at both organizations. These projects focus on connective tissue and oral microbiology. 2. To increase the number of minority dentists engaged in oral health research. This will be accomplished by offering faculty development opportunities for minority dentists in a research project on the epidemiology of oral flora. The context for the faculty development program will be an established research program at UAB and an extension of the program to Nashville as a small research project; the extension will be conducted by the faculty members undergoing research development. 3. To support the program of faculty development and to provide resources for additional oral health research by establishing a core oral microbiology laboratory in Meharry's School of Dentistry. 4. To enhance minority participation in oral health research. This will be done by enabling minority UAB investigators to conduct pilot projects designed to generate competitive applications for extramural support. 5. To develop a shared administrative infrastructure for minority oral health research. This will be achieved by establishing a Center Development Core which administers the entire project, strengthens alliances between our organizations, cultivates relationships with regional dental schools, and encourages minority students to conduct oral health research.