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，与少数民族社区的密切参与，在培训少数民族调查人员在差距研究方面取得了巨大成功，以及在差距领域的杰出奖学金记录。该中心将解决美国最大和最多样化的县之一的健康差距。该中心将在最初几年强调拉丁美洲人和非洲裔美国人的糖尿病和心理健康和疾病，但最终将解决其他条件和可能的其他族裔/种族群体的差异。该中心分为七个核心：（1）行政、规划和评估核心，将指导中心，选择中心参与者，监督中心所有活动的评估，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）一个培训和指导核心，将在差异和少数群体健康领域招聘和指导少数群体初级调查员，为他们提供个性化的课程、职业指导和监督;（3）社区外展/信息传播核心，这将传播文化敏感的健康信息，以低收入的拉丁美洲人和非洲裔美国人和循证医疗保健信息，以他们的供应商，与社区合作，使社区成员参与研究，并提供辅导，以初级教师在社区为基础的研究活动;（4）核心研究，将经证实有效的干预措施转化为低收入少数人口可接受和有用的形式，通过减肥降低糖尿病发病率（最初是拉丁美洲人）;（5和6）两个共享资源核心，将为中心研究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）试点项目核心，将资助中心研究者差异领域的试点项目，最优先考虑中心及其赞助机构中大量有前途的初级研究者。该中心已确定了评估的里程碑，以确保该中心的资源最佳地用于解决国家在保健和医疗保健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.