University of Maryland Center for Health Disparities Re*

描述(由申请者提供)：这是一份申请建立“马里兰大学健康差距研究、培训和推广中心”的申请书，该中心是马里兰大学两个系统的机构，马里兰大学医学院(UMSOM和指定机构)和东岸大学(UMES合作和少数族裔服务机构)之间的合作伙伴关系。该中心的主题是“通过技术和将研究成果从长凳转化到临床和诊所到社区来减少和消除健康差距。这个拟建中心的目标地区是马里兰州服务不足的农村和城市社区，包括：非裔美国人、美洲原住民、西班牙裔和低收入白人。该中心由七个组成部分组成：一个行政核心；一个中央社区外联、信息和传播核心，它将与主要社区领导人和组织合作发展；一个以证据为基础的文化敏感的外联战略；培训核心；支持数据收集和分析、挖掘以及新型远程医疗和视频会议的共享资源核心；三个研究核心，其重点是影响目标人群并在发病率和死亡率方面产生差异的关键疾病/障碍：癌症研究核心；肾脏/眼部疾病核心；以及精神健康核心。每个机构都将各自的优势和互惠伙伴关系的历史带到这一倡议中。该中心的附加值将有助于协调和整合研究和培训活动、战略规划、评估和实施该中心的目标，从而消除不协调和分散的活动。该中心的目标是：目标一：促进两个合作机构之间在肾脏和眼睛疾病、癌症和精神健康方面的健康差异研究。目标二：促进和扩大合作机构的能力，以促进、协调和开展以证据为基础、符合文化的社区外联和传播。目标三：加强和扩大合作机构促进少数民族学生和教师在健康差距研究方面的培训的能力。目标四：加强出口核心之间共享资源的协调并使之正规化，以促进健康差距研究、社区外联和培训活动。每个机构都为这笔赠款带来了在多学科研究和社区推广方面的卓越表现。UMSOM和UMES的首席研究员、中心主任为这一伙伴关系带来了卓越的研究、机构领导力和社区外联承诺。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to establish the "University of Maryland Center for Health Disparities Research, Training, and Outreach, a partnership between two University System of Maryland institutions, the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM and designated institution) and the University of Eastern Shore (UMES collaborating and Minority serving institution). The theme for the Center is "Reducing and Eliminating Health Disparities through technology and translation of research advances from bench to clinic and clinic to community. The target areas for this proposed Center are Maryland's rural and urban underserved communities including: African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and low-income whites. The Center is composed of seven component cores: an Administrative Core; a central Community Outreach, Information and Dissemination Core which will develop in partnership with key community leaders and organizations, culturally sensitive evidenced-based outreach strategies; Training Core; Shared Resource Core which supports data collection and analysis and mining as well as novel telemedicine and videoconferencing; three research cores which focus on key diseases/disorders affecting the target populations and yielding disparities in morbidity and mortality: Cancer Research Core; Renal/Eye Disease Core, and Mental Health Core. Each institution brings its individual strengths and a history of mutually beneficial partnerships to this initiative. Value added for this Center will allow coordination and integration of research and training activities, strategic planning, evaluation and implementation of the aims of this Center and thus will eliminate uncoordinated and fragmented disparities activities. The aims for the Center are: Aim One: To foster health disparities research on renal and eye disease, cancer and mental health between the two collaborating institutions. Aim Two: To promote and expand the ability of collaborating institutions to foster, coordinate and conduct evidenced-based, culturally appropriate community outreach and dissemination. Aim Three: To enhance and expand the ability of collaborating institutions to foster minority student and faculty training in health disparities research. Aim Four: To enhance and formalize the coordination of shared resources among Export cores to promote health disparities research, community outreach and training activities. Each institution brings excellence in multidisciplinary research and community outreach to this grant. And the Principal investigator, Center directors for UMSOM and UMES bring a career of research excellence, institutional leadership and community outreach commitment to this Partnership.