RESEARCH CORE

本节介绍建立探索性NCMHD的应用程序的Research Core组件 亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)研究中心。研究核心的使命是解决知识 关于文化进程的作用和其他疾病的根本原因在创造、减少 以及消除艾滋病毒/艾滋病、心理健康和药物滥用方面的健康差距。这个核心将 通过以下方式开展持续、协调、有计划和主题相关的研究 跨学科的专业知识和满足当地社区的需求。核心将向前迈进 通过加强该中心的概念和方法专门知识来了解健康差距 开展最高质量的科学研究，促进少数民族健康，缩小健康差距 通过在文化上适当地预防和治疗艾滋病毒/艾滋病、心理健康和药物滥用。 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 并加强中心参与者在卫生基础文化进程方面的专业知识 在艾滋病毒/艾滋病、精神健康和药物滥用预防和治疗方面的差距 西南地区；(2)建立和维护一个研究基础设施，建立概念、方法 以及在已确定的重点领域进行健康差距研究的统计能力；(3)保持正在进行的 向公众、机构和科学工作者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)与社区合作伙伴合作，创造新的健康差距 研究问题和倡议，确保研究议程和方法反映社区需求 以及优先事项和最好的科学。核心将包括担任研究主任和 方法学家，以及研究协调员和研究生研究助理。研究的核心 将与国际科学咨询委员会联系，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方法，并将积极参与当地社区和 利益相关者参与研究的产生、设计、执行、分析和传播。

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.