San Diego Partnership to Reduce Diabetes and CVD in Latinos

圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越研究中心是一个三边合作，旨在促进和加快研究，改善生活在圣地亚哥边境地区的低收入拉丁美洲人的心血管疾病结果。圣地亚哥州立大学（SDSU）和加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）代表了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，但两者都具有基于社区的研究和培训的经验和兴趣。圣伊西德罗健康中心（SYHC）是一个大型的，主要为拉丁裔服务的社区健康中心，为弱势患者提供服务。这些组织将共同建立现有的关系，进行流行病学，行为和遗传学研究，以改善对有CVD风险和患有CVD的贫困拉丁美洲人的护理。这三个机构的调查人员和工作人员将被称为圣地亚哥合作伙伴关系工作人员。圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越研究中心建议关注生活在圣地亚哥边境地区的低收入拉丁裔人所经历的心血管疾病（CVD）及其相关风险因素的差异。该中心将开展严格的以社区为基础的研究，主要是减少弱势群体的差异，同时为社区提供更好的服务，回答重要的生物医学问题，建立社区研究能力，并激励和培训CVD差异的调查人员。圣地亚哥拉丁裔卓越中心的目标是：目标1：通过ADA和NCEP指导方针的文化和语言上的适当应用，进行研究，以减少主要拉丁裔社区的CVD差异目标2：加强SDSU，UCSD和SYHC少数民族健康和健康差异研究和培训的基础设施目标3：目标4：加强SYHC社区站点的研究基础设施，从而增加进行研究的大学-社区伙伴关系的潜力。

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.