Hampton-Penn Center to Reduce Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案旨在通过利用和扩展汉普顿大学护理学院和宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院之间的现有合作伙伴关系，缩小目前存在于不同民族和种族的美国公民之间的健康差距。拟建的汉普顿宾夕法尼亚减少健康差异中心将1)促进汉普顿大学和宾夕法尼亚大学的研究人员、教师和学生之间护理合作关系的发展，并将进一步推动两所大学的健康差异研究；2)进一步发展和传播与种族/族裔少数群体、边缘化和服务不足人口之间的健康差距有关的具有文化能力的研究和干预措施；3)加强对护士的招聘、保留和培训，使其从事研究工作，这些护士本身就是种族/族裔少数群体、边缘化和服务不足人口的成员，他们将能够建立减少健康差距的科学。在先前的研究中，文化上适当的干预措施已经被设计用来促进少数民族人群的健康和降低疾病风险，在此基础上，汉普顿宾夕法尼亚减少健康差异中心（HPC）将专注于开展健康促进和疾病预防的文化胜任研究，以及文化、种族和民族在客户系统、医疗保健系统和更大的社会中对健康和疾病的影响。具体而言，该中心将加强在文化背景下促进健康和预防疾病的研究，并将：1)制定对回答来自不同社区的研究问题敏感的方法。2)加强对少数民族和少数民族院校从事文化能力研究的研究人员的培训。3)通过试点资助机制，促进旨在减少健康差距的研究。4)加强少数民族健康调查员（从本科生到教师）的职业发展，他们正在进行旨在通过具有文化能力的研究设计和干预来促进健康和预防疾病的研究。汉普顿宾夕法尼亚减少健康差距中心将通过以下方式实现这些目标：1)建立一个行政核心，促进两个机构之间的关系，并提供基础设施支持；2)建立一个试点核心，提供资金机制，促进旨在减少健康差距的研究；3)建立一个指导核心，促进汉普顿大学和宾夕法尼亚大学的研究人员之间的联盟。研究的传播和社区外展对我们的中心至关重要，因此这些活动将在本提案后面概述的试点核心和指导核心中进行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks to narrow the gap in health disparities that currently exist between American citizens of different ethnic and racial origins by capitalizing on and extending an existing partnership between the Hampton University School of Nursing and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. The proposed Hampton Penn Center for Reducing Health Disparities will 1) foster development of nursing partnerships between researchers, faculty, and students at Hampton University and the University of Pennsylvania and will further health disparity research at both institutions; 2) further the development and dissemination of culturally competent research and interventions related to health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities, marginalized and underserved populations, and 3) enhance the recruitment, retention and training of nurses into research careers who are themselves members of racial/ethnic minorities, marginalized and underserved populations who will be able to build the science that will reduce health disparities. Building on previous research in which culturally appropriate interventions have been designed to promote health and reduce risk of disease in minority populations, the Hampton Penn Center for Reducing Health Disparities (HPC) will focus on conducting culturally competent research on health promotion and disease prevention and the influence that culture, race and ethnicity exert within the client-system, healthcare-system, and the larger society that impact on health and illness. Specifically this center will enhance the conduct of research on health promotion and disease prevention within a cultural context and will: 1) Develop methodologies that are sensitive to answering research questions from diverse communities. 2) Increase the training of researchers from majority and minority institutions who conduct culturally competent research. 3) Foster research designed to reduce health disparities through a pilot funding mechanism. 4) Enhance the career development of minority health investigators (from undergraduates through faculty) who are conducting research designed to promote health and prevent disease through culturally competent research designs and interventions. The Hampton Penn Center for Reducing Health Disparities will meet these aims through: 1) an administrative core that will foster relationships between the two institutions and which will provide infrastructure support 2) a pilot core that will provide funding mechanisms to foster the conduct of research designed to reduce health disparities and 3) a mentorship core in which alliances between researchers at Hampton University and the University of Pennsylvania will be fostered. Dissemination of research and community outreach are critically important to our center, therefore these activities will occur in the pilot core and mentorship core as outlined later in this proposal.