HEALTH PROMOTION & DISEASE PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）：莫尔豪斯医学院预防研究中心 (MSM PRC) 寻求 2009-2014 年项目期间的持续资助。 MSM PRC 在非裔美国人和其他少数族裔社区开展跨学科社区预防研究，培训少数族裔社区研究人员和公共卫生从业人员，并展示社区联盟在开展研究方面的价值。该中心由“社区联盟委员会”(CCB) 管理，该委员会代表社区规划单位 (NPU) V、X、Y 和 Z、三个学术机构和六个机构（包括州和地方卫生部门）之间的合作伙伴关系。 CCB 章程要求其大多数成员反映社区，并且董事会主席始终是社区代表。该中心的总体目标是开展健康促进和疾病预防研究： 1. 通过测试和展示文化上适当的健康促进干预措施，重点关注死亡和残疾的主要原因，特别是那些导致种族/民族健康状况差异的原因； 2. 通过促进社区对计划和资源的控制以及建设社区促进健康的能力，改善社区内的公共卫生实践； 3. 通过交流和传播关于健康促进和疾病预防的渐进且文化上适当的方法的信息，制定更有效的州和地方公共卫生计划； 4. 通过为公共卫生和临床研究领域的医学生和研究生提供参与社区参与性研究项目和计划并从中学习的机会，培养下一代少数民族翻译研究科学家、临床医生、预防研究科学家和公共卫生从业人员。预防干预：在门口迎接他们（PIMTAG）是该中心的核心研究项目。 PIMTAG is a mixed method prevention intervention study that seeks to reduce the risk of primary HIV/STD infections of or by jailed African American males with a history of substance abuse re-entering Atlanta communities through the administration of an educationally based behavior modification intervention.相关性（参见说明）：PIMTAG 将通过实现健康人群 (HP) 2010 年 HIV 目标来预防 HIV 感染及其相关疾病和死亡，从而影响公共健康。该项目旨在降低有药物滥用史的被监禁非洲裔美国男性或由其感染原发性艾滋病毒/性病的风险。 HP 2010 和 PIMTAG 目标的目标人群都是受 HIV 影响的非洲裔美国男性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center (MSM PRC) seeks continuation funding for the 2009-2014 project period. The MSM PRC conducts interdisciplinary community-based research on prevention in African American and other minority communities, trains minority community-based researchers and public health practitioners, and demonstrates the value of community coalitions in conducting research. The Center is governed by a "Community Coalition Board" (CCB) that represents a partnership among Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs) V, X, Y, and Z, three academic institutions and six agencies (including state and local health departments). The bylaws of the CCB require majority of its membership reflect the community and that the Board Chair always be a community representative. The Center's overall goals are to conduct health promotion and disease prevention research that: 1. Focuses on the major causes of death and disability, especially those that lead to racial/ethnic health status disparities, by testing and demonstrating culturally appropriate health promotion interventions; 2. Improves public health practice within communities by promoting community control of programs and resources and building community capacity to promote health; 3. Cultivates more effective state and local public health programs by communicating and disseminating information on progressive and culturally appropriate approaches to health promotion and disease prevention; and 4. Prepares the next generation of minority translation research scientists, clinicians, prevention research scientists and public health practitioners by providing opportunities for medical students and graduate students in public health and in clinical research to participate in and learn from community-based participatory research projects and programs. Prevention Intervention: Meeting Them at the Gate (PIMTAG) is the Core Research Project for the Center. PIMTAG is a mixed method prevention intervention study that seeks to reduce the risk of primary HIV/STD infections of or by jailed African American males with a history of substance abuse re-entering Atlanta communities through the administration of an educationally based behavior modification intervention. RELEVANCE (See instructions): PIMTAG will impact public health by addressing the Healthy People (HP) 2010 HIV goal to prevent HIV infection and its related illness and death. The Project seeks to reduce the risk of primary HIV/STD infections of or by jailed African American males with a history of substance abuse. Targeted populations in both HP 2010 and PIMTAG Aims are persons disproportionately affected by HIV-African-American males.