Hampton-Penn Center to Reduce Health Disparities

描述(由申请人提供)：这项提案旨在通过利用和扩大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，缩小不同种族和种族的美国公民之间目前存在的健康差距。拟议的汉普顿宾夕法尼亚大学减少健康差距中心将1)促进汉普顿大学和宾夕法尼亚大学研究人员、教职员工和学生之间护理伙伴关系的发展，并将促进这两个机构的健康差距研究；2)进一步发展和传播与种族/少数民族、边缘化和服务不足的人群中的健康差距有关的具有文化能力的研究和干预措施；3)加强招募、保留和培训护士进入研究职业生涯，他们本身就是种族/少数民族、边缘化和服务不足人群的成员，他们将能够建立能够减少健康差距的科学。在之前研究的基础上，汉普顿宾夕法尼亚减少健康差距中心(HPC)将在先前研究的基础上，设计文化上适当的干预措施，以促进少数群体的健康并降低疾病风险，该中心将重点开展文化上称职的研究，研究健康促进和疾病预防，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。具体地说，该中心将在文化背景下加强健康促进和疾病预防方面的研究，并将：1)开发对回答不同社区的研究问题敏感的方法。2)加强对从事文化研究的多数和少数机构的研究人员的培训。3)通过试点资助机制促进旨在缩小健康差距的研究。4)促进少数民族卫生研究人员(从本科生到教员)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措施促进健康和预防疾病的研究。汉普顿-宾夕法尼亚缩小健康差距中心将通过以下方式实现这些目标：1)一个行政核心，将促进两个机构之间的关系，并提供基础设施支持；2)一个试点核心，将提供资金机制，促进旨在减少健康差距的研究的开展；以及3)一个指导核心，其中将促进汉普顿大学和宾夕法尼亚大学研究人员之间的联盟。研究传播和社区推广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.