Health Research Enhancement at Morgan State University

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的卫生服务研究增强项目旨在加强和扩大摩根州立大学城市研究所（IUR）和公共卫生项目（PHP）的能力和基础设施，以进行严格的卫生服务研究。在三年的资助期内，拟议的跨学科研究活动将集中在少女怀孕、妇幼保健、学校保健方案、生殖健康、母乳喂养以及其他健康和人口问题等领域的选定卫生服务问题。拟议的保护活动将包括五个具体目标：（1）加强和扩大IUR和PHP正在进行的一些卫生服务研究活动;（2）在选定的卫生服务领域发起和开展新的教师小型研究项目;（3）加强和扩大-为学生提供研究助理和实习机会，并增加受过卫生服务研究培训的非洲裔美国研究人员的人数;（4）加强现有的研究设施和资源在IUR和PHP通过：更新其计算设施，并通过建立一个新的健康服务和研究图书馆;（5）在非裔美国人的健康服务研究中发挥领导作用，在地方，州和国家一级。该应用程序描述了现有的研究设施，工作人员，研究设施的差距，以及其卫生服务研究的演变。然后，应用程序描述了三个新的医疗服务研究项目，将在3年的资助期内进行的目的，目标和方法。所有这三个研究保护将集中在卫生服务研究问题，不成比例地影响非裔美国人在内城巴尔的摩及其周边地区，利用核心研究设施，将建立或加强在IUR和PHP根据拟议的卫生服务研究增强计划。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): This application for a Health Services Research Enhancement project aims to strengthen and expand the capacity and infrastructural facilities at the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and Public Health Program (PHP) at Morgan State University to conduct rigorous health services research. The proposed interdisciplinary research activities, during the three-year funding period, will focus on selected health services issues in such areas as teenage pregnancy, maternal and child health, school health programs, reproductive health, breast-feeding, and other health and demographic issues. The proposed protect activities will encompass five specific aims: (1) to strengthen and expand some on-going health services research activities at IUR and at PHP; (2) to initiate and conduct new faculty small research projects in selected health services areas; (3) to strengthen and expand on-going research assistant ships and internships for students and to increase the small pool of African American researchers trained in health services research; (4) to strengthen existing research facilities and resources at the IUR and PHP by: updating their computing facilities and by establishing a new health services and research library; and (5) to develop a leadership role in African-American health services research at the local, state, and national levels. The application describes existing research facilities, staff, gaps in research facilities, and the evolution of its health services research. The application then describes aims, objectives, and methods of three new health services research projects that will be conducted during the 3-year funding period. All these three research protects will focus on health services research issues disproportionately affecting African Americans in inner-city Baltimore and its surrounding areas by utilizing the core research facilities that will be established or strengthened at the IUR and at the PHP under the proposed Health Services Research Enhancement Program.