DRUG ABUSE AND AIDS RESEARCH CENER AT U. MIAMI

UM-CDAAR的总体目标是通过共享资源的支持，加强对药物滥用、艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染和其他共生疾病的行为、临床、基础、流行病学、预防和应用研究，从而消除健康差距。我们的申请建议在一群经验丰富的艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用研究人员的基础上建立一个全国重要的研究中心，他们在过去25年里共同工作。UM-CDAAR的建立将使我们能够将这些工作关系正规化，并将这种合作扩大到40多名艾滋病毒/艾滋病和/或药物滥用调查人员，以加强他们各自资助的项目，并促进地方、国家和国际方案的连贯性、协同作用和一体化。总而言之，该组织与他人合著了1000多份出版物，并在50多份联邦资助的赠款上进行了合作。UM-CDAAR的五个核心是与目前资助的艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用调查员一起进行的需求评估过程中选定的。选定的核心支持个别赠款的目标，并提供有助于资源利用的成本效益和质量控制的共享资源。这些核心包括：(A)行政核心；(B)发展核心；(C)生物统计、数据管理和信息技术核心；(D)干预核心；(E)跨学科方法核心。核心领导人和联合领导人是根据迈阿密大学许多不同的艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用研究领域的知识、经验和代表性选出的。CDAAR的所有核心领导人在艾滋病毒/艾滋病和药物滥用研究方面都有出色的记录，这是基于目前NIH的资助和同行评议的出版物。CDAAR领导层中包括了五名现任部门主任，这证明了高级领导层和行政管理的卓越。

The overall goal of the UM-CDAAR is to move toward the elimination of health disparities by enhancing behavioral, clinical, basic, epidemiological, prevention, and applied research on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS infection and other co-occurring illnesses, through the support of shared resources. Our application proposes to build a research center of national importance on the foundation of an experienced group of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse researchers who have worked together for the past quarter of a century. The creation of the UM-CDAAR will enable us to formalize these working relationships and to expand this collaboration to over 40 HIV/AIDS and/or drug abuse investigators to enhance their individually funded projects as well as foster programmatic coherence, synergy and integration locally, nationally and internationally. Collectively, this group has co-authored over 1000 publications and has worked together on more than 50 federally funded grants. The five UM- CDAAR cores were selected by a needs assessment process conducted with currently funded HIV/AIDS and drug abuse investigators. Cores were selected that support the aims of the individual grants and provide shared resources that would contribute toward cost-effectiveness and quality control in resource utilization. These cores include (a) Administrative Core; (b) Developmental Core; (c) Biostatistics, Data Management and Information Technology Core; (d) Interventions ore; and (e) Transdisciplinary Methods Core. Core Leaders and Co-Leaders were selected based on knowledge, experience, and representation of the many different HIV/AIDS and drug abuse research areas at the University of Miami. All CDAAR core leaders have an outstanding record of HIV/AIDS and drug abuse research based on current NIH funding and peer-reviewed publications. Evidence of senior leadership and administrative excellence is demonstrated by the inclusion of five current department chairs in the CDAAR leadership.