New Faculty Development for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学弗朗西斯科分校（UCSF）是一个研究密集型的健康科学校园。有了这个奖项，牙科的UCSF学校将聘请三个新的助理教授开发现有的多学科生物医学核心中心，UCSF中心内的研究项目，以解决儿童口腔健康的差异，其中包括来自多个部门的教师在UCSF和其他大学。教师也将有机会在校园内的合作活动，特别是通过UCSF临床和转化科学研究所（CTSI），健康和社区中心，以及健康中心。该中心的总体目标是进行研究，以减少口腔健康的差距。具体的研究重点是通过预防，早期诊断和儿童及其照顾者的治疗来提高我们理解，预防和消除幼儿龋齿的能力。新的研究人员将从三个方面加强我们的努力-基于实验室的龋齿学研究，基于系统的医学社会学/卫生政策研究和复杂的统计分析。每个人都将被任命在牙科家庭部门的学校，致力于提供额外的两年的支持超过这个奖项的最初两年。每个人也将在另一个UCSF学校的第二个部门联合任命，无论是医学院还是护理学院，并有多个高级研究人员作为导师。具体目标是：任命三名独立的，终身制的同等研究密集型助理教授在牙科的UCSF学校，一个在龋齿学的研究培训，一个在医疗保健系统和卫生政策的社会学培训，一个在生物统计学。扩大现有的机构优势，能力和科学使命的NIH资助的加州大学旧金山分校中心，以解决儿童口腔健康的差异（NIH/NIDCR U 54 DE 019285）。为了提供职业发展资源，基础设施，指导和协作，多学科的环境，以促进新的研究人员的科学成功，证明了他们的研究生产力。这些新的研究人员将加强我们从微观和宏观层面了解口腔健康差异的能力，扩大我们对研究领域的整体影响，并建立研究能力。 公共卫生相关性：该提案具有很强的公共卫生相关性。它响应了国家疾病控制和康复研究所2009- 2013年战略计划草案，目标四：采用严格的多学科研究方法，消除口腔、牙齿和颅面健康方面的差距。龋齿重点是响应两个健康人2010年口腔健康目标：减少2-4岁幼儿的比例1）龋齿经验在他们的乳牙到11%;和2）未经治疗的龋齿在他们的乳牙到9%。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a research-intensive health sciences campus. With this award, the UCSF School of Dentistry will hire three new Assistant Professors to develop research projects within an existing multi-disciplinary biomedical core center, the UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Children's Oral Health, which includes faculty from multiple departments at UCSF and other universities. Faculty will also have access to collaborative activities across campus, particularly through the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), the Center for Health and Community, and the Center for Health Professions. The overall goal of this Center is to conduct research to reduce oral health disparities. The specific research focus is to improve our ability to understand, prevent, and eliminate early childhood caries through prevention, early diagnosis and treatment with children and their caregivers. The new investigators will enhance our efforts from three perspectives - laboratory-based cariology research, systems-based medical sociology/health policy research, and sophisticated statistical analysis. Each person will be appointed in a School of Dentistry home department that is committed to providing an additional two years of support beyond this award's initial two years. Each also will be jointly appointed in a second department in another UCSF school, either the School of Medicine or Nursing and have multiple, senior researchers as mentors. The specific aims are: To appoint three Independent, tenure-track equivalent research intensive Assistant Professors at the UCSF School of Dentistry, one with research training in cariology, one with training in sociology of healthcare systems and health policy, and one in biostatistics. To expand existing Institutional strengths, capacity and the scientific mission of the NIH-funded UCSF Center to Address Disparities in Children's Oral Health (NIH/NIDCR U54 DE019285). To provide career development resources, Infrastructure, mentoring and a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment to foster the scientific success of the new investigators as evidenced by their research productivity. These new investigators will strengthen our ability to understand oral health disparities from both micro and macro-levels, expand our overall impact on the research field, and build research capacity. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposal has strong public health relevance. It is responsive to the NIDCR draft strategic plan, 2009-13, Goal IV: Apply rigorous, multidisciplinary research approaches to eliminate disparities in oral, dental and craniofacial health. The dental caries focus is responsive to two Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives: To reduce the proportion of young children aged 2-4 years with 1) dental caries experience in their primary teeth to 11 percent; and 2) with untreated dental caries in their primary teeth to 9 percent.