San Diego Partnership to Reduce Diabetes and CVD in Latinos

描述(由申请人提供)：圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越研究中心是一个三方合作机构，旨在促进和加快改善居住在圣地亚哥边境地区的低收入拉丁裔心血管疾病结果的研究。圣地亚哥州立大学(SDSU)和加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)代表着两所大型研究密集型大学，一所拥有公共卫生学院，另一所拥有医学院，但两所大学都对社区研究和培训有经验和兴趣。圣伊西德罗健康中心(SYHC)是一个大型的、主要服务于拉丁裔的社区健康中心，为弱势患者提供服务。这些组织将共同努力，在现有关系的基础上进行流行病学、行为和基因研究，努力改善对有心血管疾病风险和患病风险的贫穷拉美人的护理。这三个机构的调查人员和工作人员将被称为圣地亚哥伙伴关系工作人员。圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越研究中心建议重点关注生活在圣地亚哥边境地区的低收入拉丁裔在心血管疾病(CVD)及其相关风险因素方面的差异。该中心将进行严格的社区研究，主要是缩小弱势群体的差距，同时为社区提供更好的服务，回答重要的生物医学问题，建设社区的研究能力，并激励和培训心血管疾病差距方面的调查人员。圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越中心的目标是：目标1：通过在文化和语言上适当地应用ADA和NCEP指南，开展研究，以减少以拉丁裔为主的社区的心血管疾病差距；目标2：加强少数族裔健康和健康差距研究的基础设施，并在圣地亚哥州立大学、加州大学圣地亚哥分校和SYHC目标3：增加从事心血管差异研究的少数族裔调查人员的人数；目标4：加强社区网站SYHC的研究基础设施，从而增加大学与社区合作开展研究的潜力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The San Diego Latino Research Center of Excellence is a tri-lateral collaboration that seeks to promote and expedite research that improves cardiovascular disease outcomes in low-income Latinos living in the border region of San Diego. San Diego State University (SDSU) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) represent two large research intensive universities, one with a school of public health and the other with a school of medicine, but both with experience and interest in community based research and training. The San Ysidro Health Center (SYHC) is a large, predominantly Latino-serving community health center that provides services to disadvantaged patients. Together, these organizations will build on existing relationships to conduct epidemiologic, behavioral, and genetic research in an effort to improve the care being delivered to indigent Latinos at risk for and having CVD. Investigators and staff at these three institutions will be referred to as the San Diego Partnership Staff. The San Diego Latino Research Center of Excellence proposes to focus on the disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its associated risk factors experienced by low-income Latinos living in the San Diego border region. The center will conduct rigorous community-based research that will primarily lead to reduction in disparities for disadvantaged populations, and at the same time provide improved service to the community, answer important biomedical questions, build research capacity in the community, and stimulate and train investigators in CVD disparities. The goals of the San Diego Latino Center of Excellence are: Goal 1: Conduct research that will reduce CVD disparities in a predominantly Latino community through culturally and linguistically appropriate applications of the ADA and NCEP guidelines Goal 2: Strengthen the infrastructure for minority health and health disparities research and training at SDSU, UCSD, and SYHC Goal 3: Increase the number of minority investigators engaged in cardiovascular disparities research Goal 4: Strengthen the research infrastructure at a community site, SYHC, thereby increasing the potential for university-community partnerships in which research is conducted.