Establishing an Exploratory NCMHD Research Center of Excellence in Arkansas

说明(由申请人提供)：拟议的主题是开展研究，以改善种族和少数民族获得高质量预防和医疗保健计划的机会，目标是消除健康差距。计划的重点是基于差异的主要来源的慢性疾病差异，最初的重点是心血管疾病、癌症以及肥胖、糖尿病、烟草使用、缺乏运动和危险性行为等相关风险因素。初步建议的研究项目包括1个完整项目和6个试点项目。我们建议通过循证程序使该中心与已确定的健康差距的主要来源保持一致。最后，我们建议开发三个核心来支持该中心：一个行政核心，负责监督日常活动，并为拟议的中心制定政策，并与国家和地方咨询委员会建立联系；一个研究核心，用于根据循证优先和启发式理论模型演变的方法，为中心方向制定建议；以及一个教育/培训核心，通过与阿肯色州的三个HBCU合作，通过一个合并的学士/公共卫生硕士学位计划，促进少数族裔学生招收进入健康差距研究的职业。阿肯色大学医学科学学院(UAMS)费伊·W·布兹曼公共卫生学院(COPH)成立于2001年7月，在一次公投后，根据精心策划的愿景、使命和价值观创建了一所新学院，强调阿肯色州人的健康和福祉，并消除了健康差距。因此，COPH，这一应用的领头羊，是基于这一应用的非常科学的重点--消除健康差距。正如我们在申请中所描述的那样，我们对消除健康差距的承诺体现在一些结构和倡议上。这一组织承诺在拟议中心的PI/主任Jim raczynski博士身上表现得最为明显，他是DAB健康促进中心的创始院长和前创始主任9年，DAB中心是疾控中心的预防研究中心之一，专注于阿拉巴马州农村地区非裔美国人的初级预防。作为院长，他担任学院的首席执行官/学术官员，使他能够确保充足的财务、空间和行政支持资源，以确保拟议的探索性NCMHD在阿肯色州取得成功，这一承诺得到了UAMS首席执行官I·多德·威尔逊校长的确认。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The proposed theme is to develop research to improve access to quality prevention and healthcare programs for racial and ethnic minorities with a goal of eliminating health disparities. The planned focus is on chronic disease disparities, based on the major sources of disparities, with initial emphasis on CVD, cancer, and associated risk factors of obesity, diabetes, tobacco use, physical inactivity, and risky sexual behavior. Initial proposed research projects include 1 Full and 6 Pilot Projects. We propose to align the Center with major sources of identified health disparities through an evidence-based process. Finally, we propose to develop 3 cores to support the Center: an Administrative Core to oversee day-to-day activities and establish policy for the proposed Center and interface with National and Local Advisory Committees; a Research Core to develop recommendations for Center directions based on an evidence-based approach to priority and heuristic theoretical model evolution; and an Education/Training Core to promote minority student recruitment into careers in health disparities research through a combined BA/MPH degree program in concert with Arkansas' three HBCUs. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health (COPH) was established in July 2001, after a public referendum led to the creation of a new College based on a carefully, strategically planned Vision, Mission, and Values, emphasizing the health and well-being of Arkansans and eliminating health disparities. The COPH, the lead in this application, is thus based on the very scientific focus of this application - the elimination of health disparities. Our commitment to the elimination of health disparities is evidenced by a number of structures and initiatives as described in our application. Nowhere is this organizational commitment more evident than with the Pi/Director for the proposed Center, Dr. Jim Raczynski, who is Founding Dean and former Founding Director for 9 years of the DAB Center for Health Promotion, one of CDC's Prevention Research Centers, focusing on primary prevention among African Americans in rural Alabama. As Dean, he acts as the chief executive/academic officer of the College, enabling him to ensure the adequacy of financial, space, and administrative support resources to ensure the success of the proposed Exploratory NCMHD in Arkansas, a commitment that is confirmed by by Chancellor I. Dodd Wilson, the CEO of UAMS.