Meharry EXPORT Center for Health Disparities

近年来，在认识少数民族和种族之间健康状况差异的范围和复杂性以及健康的社会决定因素方面取得了相当大的进展。尽管认识有所提高，但在将知识转化为健全的社区实践标准方面进展甚微。 Meharry医学院（MMC）需要提高其能力，资源和环境，以解决服务不足和少数民族社区的健康问题。我们建议建立一个出口中心，将研究和社区的观点联系起来，以阐明和减轻我们在田纳西州纳什维尔的目标人群中疾病的因果因素。 我们将与范德比尔特大学健康中心和大都会公共卫生部合作，实现一个解决健康差距问题的范例。 我们中心的长期目标是通过促进研究，提高对社会，经济，文化，行为和生物学对他们健康的影响的理解，改善少数民族和少数民族的健康和福祉。重点将放在与慢性病和传染病有关的非正式健康行为、风险因素和结果，特别是与艾滋病有关的癌症、呼吸道疾病、糖尿病和艾滋病毒/艾滋病。我们的短期目标是创建：1）一个指导计划，旨在使初级教师成为独立的，在健康差距领域的研究人员和2）一个支持性的学术研究 促进少数民族健康的环境。 该中心将为MMC提供基础设施建设，包括研究人员，行政支持服务和结构化框架，以整合研究，预防，健康教育，健康维护和治疗。在Meharry-Vanderbilt联盟和Metro公共卫生部门的支持下，MMC为创建出口中心提供了独特的环境。 该中心将通过建立指导计划来衡量其成功，该计划旨在使初级教师成为研究科学家，一个能够支持学术研究环境和社区进步的授权社区，以理解和缓解健康差距。

Over recent years, there has been considerable progress in recognition of the scope and complexity of health status disparity among ethnic and racial minorities, and social determinants of health. Despite increased awareness, little progress has been made in translating the knowledge to sound community standards of practice. Meharry Medical College (MMC) has a need to enhance its capability, resources and the environment in which it addresses the health problems of the underserved and minority community. We propose the creation of an EXPORT Center that will link research and a community perspective to elucidate and mitigate the causal factors of disease among our target population in Nashville, Tennessee. We will partner with Vanderbilt University Health Center and the Metro Public Health Department to actualize a paradigm to address the problem of health disparities. The long- term objectives of our Center is to improve the health and well-being of ethnic and acial minorities by promoting research that enhances understanding of the effects of society, economics, culture, behavior and biology on their health. The focus will be on disparite health behaviors, risk factors and outcomes related to chronic and infectious diseases, specifically hormone-related cancers, respiratory disease, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Our short-term objectives are to create: 1) a mentoring program that aims to enable junior faculty to become independent, researchers in areas of health disparities and 2) a supportive academic research environment that promotes the health of racial and ethnic minorities. The Center will provide infrastructure building for MMC in the form of research faculty, administrative support services and a structured framework to integrate research, prevention, health education, health maintenance and treatment. Backed by the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance and Metro Public Health Department, MMC provides a unique environment for creating an EXPORT Center. The Center will measure its success by the establishment of mentoring programs that aim to enable junior faculty to become research scientists, an empowered community capable of supporting the academic research environment and community advancement in the understanding and mitigation of health disparities.