RESEARCH CORE

本节介绍了用于建立探索性NCMHD的应用程序的研究核心组件 亚利桑那州立大学研究中心。研究核心的使命是解决知识 文化进程和其他基本病因在创造、减少和消除艾滋病毒/艾滋病 消除艾滋病毒/艾滋病、精神健康和药物滥用方面的健康差距。核心将 开展持续的，协调的，有计划的和主题联系的研究，依靠其 跨学科的专业知识和解决当地社区的需求。内核会继续前进 通过加强中心的概念和方法专门知识， 开展最高质量的科学研究，促进少数民族健康，减少健康差距 通过文化上适当的预防和治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病、精神健康和药物滥用。 核心将建立和维持研究活动，以实现五个战略目标：（1）协调，发展， 并加强中心参与者关于健康基础文化过程的专业知识 在艾滋病毒/艾滋病、精神健康和药物滥用预防和治疗方面， （2）建立和维护一个研究基础设施，建立概念，方法 在确定的重点领域进行健康差距研究的能力和统计能力;（3）保持持续的 向公众、机构和科学界传播中心研究成果的机制 （4）为中心的研究提供和协调研究专业知识和资源， 教育和培训核心;（5）与社区伙伴合作，创造新的健康差距 研究问题和举措，确保研究议程和方法反映社区需求 以及最好的科学。核心将包括教师担任研究主任， 方法学家，以及研究协调员和研究生研究助理。研究核心 将与一个国际科学咨询委员会联系，以便就其研究议程提供专门知识和指导， ，v 并将遵循参与性行动研究的方法，积极让当地社区参与， 参与研究的产生、设计、执行、分析和传播的利益攸关方。

This section describes the Research Core component of the application to establish an Exploratory NCMHD Research Center at Arizona State University (ASU). The Research Core's mission is to address knowledge gaps on the role of cultural processes and other fundamental causes of disease in the creation, reduction and elimination of health disparities in HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance abuse. This core will conduct sustained, coordinated, programmatic, and thematically linked research by relying on its interdisciplinary expertise and addressing the needs of the local community. The Core will advance knowledge on health disparities by enhancing the Center's conceptual and methodological expertise to conduct the highest quality scientific research to promote minority health and reduce health disparities through culturally appropriate prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance abuse. The Core will establish and sustain research activities to meet five strategic goals: (1) Coordinate, develop and strengthen the expertise of Center participants regarding the cultural processes underlying health disparities in HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance abuse prevention and treatment among populations of the Southwest; (2) Establish and maintain a research infrastructure that builds conceptual, methodological and statistical capacity for health disparities research in the identified emphasis areas; (3) Maintain ongoing mechanisms for disseminating the Center's research findings to the public, agencies and the scientific community; (4) Provide and coordinate research expertise and resources for the Center's Research, Education and Training Core; (5) Collaborate with community partners to generate new health disparities research questions and initiatives, ensuring that the research agenda and methods reflect community needs and priorities as well as the best science. The Core will include faculty serving as Research Director and as Methodologists, as well as a Research Coordinator and Graduate Research Assistants. The Research Core will be linked to an International Scientific Advisory Board for expertise and guidance on its research agenda, ,v and will follow a participatory action research approach and will actively involve local communities and stakeholders in research generation, design, execution, analysis and dissemination.