DREW/UCLA Project Export Center

描述(由申请人提供)：德鲁/加州大学洛杉矶分校出口中心建立在德鲁和加州大学洛杉矶分校之间的长期合作传统、与少数族裔社区的密切合作、在差异研究方面培训少数族裔调查人员方面的巨大成功以及在差异领域的杰出学术记录的基础上。该中心将解决美国最大和最多样化的县之一的健康差距问题。该中心最初几年将重点关注拉美裔和非裔美国人的糖尿病、心理健康和疾病，但最终将解决其他疾病的差异，并可能解决其他族裔/种族群体的差异。该中心由七个核心组成：(1)行政、规划和评价核心，将指导中心，挑选中心参与者，监督对中心所有活动的评价，选择试点项目，协调与外部咨询委员会和社区咨询委员会的关系，并管理预算和报告；(2)培训和辅导核心，将招聘和指导少数群体领域的初级调查员，为他们提供个性化的课程、职业指导和监督；(3)社区外联/信息传播核心，将向低收入拉丁裔和非裔美国人传播对文化敏感的健康信息，向其提供者传播以证据为基础的保健信息，与社区合作，促使社区成员参与研究，并在社区研究活动中向初级教员提供指导；(4)研究核心，将通过减肥降低糖尿病发病率的已证明有效的干预措施转化为低收入少数群体(最初是拉丁裔)可以接受和有用的形式；(5和6)两个共享资源核心，将为中心调查人员的研究活动带来最先进的仪器、研究设计和分析方法；和(7)一个试点项目核心，将资助中心调查人员差距领域的试点项目，给予中心及其赞助机构大量有前途的初级调查人员最高优先地位。该中心建立了评估里程碑，以确保该中心的资源得到最佳利用，以解决国家在卫生和保健方面的差距方面面临的主要问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Drew/UCLA Export Center builds upon a long tradition of collaboration between Drew and UCLA, close involvement with the minority communities, substantial success in training minority investigators in disparities research, and a distinguished record of scholarship in the area of disparities. The Center will address health disparities in the largest and one of the most diverse counties in the United States. The Center will emphasize diabetes mellitus and mental health and illness in Latinos and African Americans in its initial years, but eventually will address disparities in other conditions and, possibly, other ethnic/racial groups. The Center is organized into seven cores: (1) an Administrative, Planning and Evaluation Core, which will be direct the Center, select Center participants, supervise evaluation of all Center activities, select pilot projects, coordinate relationships to the External Advisory Board and Community Advisory Board and manage of budgets and reports; (2) a Training and Mentorship Core, which will recruit and mentor minority junior investigators in the areas of disparities and minority health, providing them with individualized curricula, career guidance and supervision; (3) a Community Outreach/Information Dissemination Core, which will disseminate culturally-sensitive health information to low-income Latinos and African Americans and evidence-based health care information to their providers, partner with communities to engage community members in research, and provide mentorship to junior faculty in community-based research activities; (4) a Research Core that will translate an intervention of proved efficacy for lowering the incidence of diabetes mellitus through weight loss into a form that will be acceptable to and useful in low-income minority populations (initially Latinos); (5 and 6) two Shared Resources Cores, that will bring state-of-the-art instruments, study designs and analytical methods to the research activities of Center investigators; and (7) a Pilot Projects Core that will fund pilot projects in the area of disparities for Center Investigators, giving highest priority to the substantial number of promising junior investigators in the Center and its sponsoring institutions. The Center has established milestones for evaluation to assure that the Center's resources are optimally applied to addressing the major problems facing the nation in the area of disparities in health and health care.