Capacity Advancement in Research Infrastructure:U Peurto Rico School of Dentistry

描述（由申请者提供）：拟议的CAIRI的目标：UPRSD *（“研究基础设施的能力提升：波多黎各大学牙科学院）是为了推进（通过稳定的捐赠资金）健康差异研究基础设施和波多黎各大学牙科学院（UPRSD）和公共卫生研究生院的能力（UPRGSOPH）的行为，合作和促进健康差异的科学价值的研究，同时开发新的少数民族研究人员的“管道”。这是为了响应NCMHD捐赠计划，以提高第736节卫生专业学校的研究和培训能力：RFA MD-05-001。 我是说UPRSD建立在NIH-NIDCR资助的RIPCOHD（2002-05），HRSA UPRSD西班牙裔卓越中心的研究开发组件，以及UPRGSOPH的研究开发经验的成功基础设施开发的基础上。捐赠基金的资金将有助于减少口腔健康的差距，最初的重点是龋齿和口腔癌疾病，这是第一个NIH-NIDCR资助的研究基础设施项目“RIPCOHD”的主题延续，重点是基于人口的研究人员和研究，并推进与UPR公共卫生研究生院的合作。北美12岁奥尔兹的龋齿发病率最高，而波多黎各的口腔癌发病率明显高于美国本土白人。 具体而言，该捐赠将建立一个完全资助的口腔流行病学终身教授，在牙科和公共卫生研究生院的UPR学校，口腔流行病学客座教授和研究助理/研究员双任命。这些职位将进行多学科的健康差距研究和指导初级研究人员和学生。此外，捐赠基金将建立一个永久性的研究和研究基础设施健康差距咨询委员会，以指导外部资源的识别和应用，以加强研究基础设施。 这一目标将在以下方面具有可持续性：加强和稳定研究资源，建立和发展科学上有价值的研究人员的临界质量，在UPRSD和UPRGSOPH的教职员工和行政部门加强研究文化，以及两所学校之间的合作和合作的扩大（牙科和公共卫生），将推进旨在减少健康差距的多学科研究。 CAIRI的公共卫生重要性：UPRSD是在其继续发展的健康差距研究基础设施和未来的科学研究人员在波多黎各大学牙科学院和公共卫生研究生院的“管道”侧重于西班牙裔人口。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposed CAIRI: UPRSD * ('Capacity Advancement in Research Infrastructure: University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry) is to advance (via stable endowment funding) the health disparities research infrastructure and capacity of the University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry (UPRSD) and the Graduate School of Public Health (UPRGSOPH) for the conduct, collaboration, and promotion of scientifically meritorious research on Health Disparities, while developing the "pipeline" of new minority researchers. This is in response to NCMHD Endowment Program for Increasing Research and Training Capacity in Section 736 Health professions schools: RFA MD-05-001. CAIRI: UPRSD builds on the successful infrastructure development of the NIH-NIDCR funded RIPCOHD (2002-05), HRSA UPRSD Hispanic Center of Excellence's research development components, and the UPRGSOPH's research development experiences. The endowment's funding will contribute to reducing oral health disparities with an initial emphasis on the diseases of dental caries and oral cancer, a thematic continuation of the first NIH-NIDCR funded research infrastructure project "RIPCOHD", by focusing on population-based researchers and research, and advancing collaborations with the UPR Graduate School of Public Health. Dental caries rates for 12-year olds are the highest in North America, while oral cancer rates in Puerto Rico are significantly greater than for U.S. mainland Whites. Specifically, this endowment will establish a fully funded tenured Professor of Oral Epidemiology, dual appointed at the UPR School of Dentistry and Graduate School of Public Health, Visiting Professor of Oral Epidemiology and a research Associate/Fellow. These positions will conduct multidisciplinary health disparities research and mentor junior researchers and students. Additionally, the endowment will establish a permanent Health Disparities Advisory Committee on Research and Research Infrastructure to guide the identification and application of external resources to research infrastructure enhancement. The goal will be sustainable in terms of the reinforcement and stability of research resources, the establishment and development of a critical mass of scientifically meritorious researchers, the enhancement of a research culture within both the faculty and administration at UPRSD and UPRGSOPH, and the expansion of grantsmanship and collaborations between two Schools (Dentistry and Public Health) that will advance multidisciplinary research aimed at reducing health disparities. The public health importance of CAIRI: UPRSD is in its continuing the development of the health disparities research infrastructure and the "pipeline" of future scientific researchers at the University of Puerto Rico School of Dentistry and Graduate School of Public Health focusing on Hispanic populations.