Research and Educational Advancement Center/Health

为响应RFA RR-O1-007“NCMHD提高第736条卫生职业学校研究和培训能力的捐赠计划”，查尔斯·R·德鲁医学与科学大学(DREW)寻求建立一项捐赠基金，以创建和维持DREW“健康差异研究和教育促进中心(REACH)”。REACH将成为德鲁学习资源中心(LRC)的一个新组成部分。具体地说，REACH将加强教师发展和学生医学论文计划的制度基础设施和规划，重点是健康差距研究。德鲁大学增加了一个强调健康差异的医学论文项目，这将进一步加强我们医科学生的研究和学术基础。在过去的5年里，德鲁大学毕业了97/110名(88%)代表不足的医学生，是目前唯一一所拥有必需的初级保健研究项目的医学院。REACH将把对文化敏感的研究方法课程与在社区研究、健康结果研究和多元文化社区的研究伦理等领域的积极研究经验结合起来。REACH将为这些初级教员和医学生提供作为临床医生、研究人员、卫生政策制定者和/或社区教育工作者解决健康差距的工具，并鼓励创造新的创新方法来解决这些差距。因此，REACH将针对国家卫生研究院(NIH)的健康差距战略计划，培训一批代表性不足的初级教职员工和医学生，使他们对存在医疗保健差距的关键领域有更高的认识。建议的捐赠基金将通过德鲁大学与加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的合作进行管理，为符合美国最高标准的有效和复杂的投资组合捐赠管理奠定了坚实的基础。该基金的投资组合预计将产生扣除费用后的年化总回报率，比以全国消费者价格指数衡量的5年内的通货膨胀率高出5%。基金会的支出政策规定了资金发放给基金持有人用于其当前支出的比率，并由财务委员会每年进行审查。为实现其投资目标，将在若干资产类别中分配捐赠基金组合，这些资产类别可能包括国内股权、国内固定收益、国际股权、风险资本和现金。分配投资组合的资产类别的目的是确保在捐赠基金内实现适当程度的多样化。这将确保创建一个自给自足的计划所需的财政偿付能力。

In response to the RFA RR-O1-007 entitled "NCMHD Endowment Program for Increasing Research and Training Capacity in Section 736 Health Professions Schools" the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (DREW) seeks to establish an endowment that will create and sustain the DREW "Research & Educational Advancement Center for Health Disparities (REACH)." REACH will be a new component within the DREW Learning Resource Center (LRC). Specifically, REACH will enhance institutional infrastructure and programming for faculty development and the student Medical Thesis program, with an emphasis on health disparities research. The addition of a Medical Thesis program with an emphasis on health disparities at DREW will further bolster the research and academic foundation of our medical students. Over the last 5 years, DREW has graduated 97/110 (88%) underrepresented medical students and is presently the only medical school with a required primary care research project. REACH will combine a culturally sensitive research methodology curriculum with an active research experience in areas such as communitybased research, health outcome research, and research ethics in multicultural communities. REACH will provide these junior faculty and medical students with the tools to address health disparities as clinicians, researchers, health policy makers and/or community educators, and encourage the creation of novel and innovative ways to address these disparities. Thus, REACH will address the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Strategic Plan of training a pool of underrepresented junior faculty and medical students with a heightened sense of awareness of the critical areas where health care disparities exist. The proposed endowment will be managed through DREW's collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) providing an established foundation of effective and sophisticated portfolio endowment management consistent with the highest level of standards in the nation. The endowment's portfolio is expected to generate a total annualized rate of return, net of fees, 5% greater than the rate of inflation as measured by the national consumer price index over a rolling 5-year period. The Foundation's spending policy governs the rate at which funds are released to fundholders for their current spending and is reviewed annually by the Finance Committe. To achieve its investment objectives, the Endowment portfolio will be allocated among a number of asset classes that may include domestic equity, domestic fixed income, international equity, venture capital and cash. The purpose of allocating the investment portfolio's asset classes is to ensure the proper level of diversification within the Endowment. This will ensure the fiscal solvency necessary for creating a self- sustaining program.