Center of Excellence in Eliminating Disparities

描述（摘要由申请人提供）：UIC消除差异卓越中心（CEED）的总体目标是：目标1：成为全校少数民族健康和健康差异研究的重要资源；目标2：加强对从事少数民族健康和健康差异研究的教师和学生的培训；目标3：发展和开展关于健康差距的前沿研究；目标4：传播有效战略，改善社区环境中少数群体的健康状况和健康差距；目标5：发展、维护和维持大学与社区的重要伙伴关系。我们将通过四个核心项目、两个研究项目和一个传播项目来实现这些目标。行政核心的职能是监督各项活动，以成功实现教育发展中心的目标，并支持研究、培训和社区核心的目标。研究核心将协调正在进行的研究，并在CEED内开发新的少数民族健康和健康差异研究，并鼓励跨学科教师的参与。研究培训和教育核心将扩大和整合ucic的各种培训活动，向合格的学生、教师和社区合作伙伴提供与开展健康差异研究具体相关的概念和方法信息。社区参与和外展核心将促进大学与社区的伙伴关系，最终目标是改善芝加哥少数族裔的健康状况，减少健康差距。这两个研究项目的目的是：研究1：建立芝加哥大都会地区前列腺癌和结直肠癌死亡率差异模型，对死亡率差异的潜在临床、社会和卫生保健相关机制进行基于人群的分析；研究2：确定导致结直肠癌治疗护理连续体中种族/社会经济差异的障碍。社区核心包括一个旨在降低乳腺癌死亡率的具体传播项目。凭借强有力的机构承诺，卓越的领导，整合我们6个健康科学项目的全部补充，我们的目标是一个综合战略，包括研究，教育，政策变化和社区合作，以减少芝加哥和伊利诺伊州的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (Abstract Provided by the Applicant): The overall aims of the UIC Center of Excellence in Eliminating Disparities (CEED) are to: Aim 1: Become a university-wide crucial resource for minority health and health disparities research; Aim 2: Enhance training of faculty and students engaged in minority health and health disparities research; Aim 3: Develop and conduct leading-edge research on health disparities; Aim 4: Disseminate effective strategies for improving minority health and health disparities in community settings; and Aim 5: Develop, maintain and sustain key university-community partnerships. We will accomplish these aims through four cores, two research projects, and one dissemination project. The function of the Administrative Core is to oversee activities to successfully achieve the CEED's aims and support the Research, Training, and Community Core aims. The Research Core will coordinate ongoing research and develop new minority health and health disparities research within the CEED and encourage participation from faculty across disciplines. The Research Training and Education Core will expand and coalesce the diverse training activities at UIC to provide conceptual and methodological information of specific relevance to the conduct of health disparities research to qualified students, faculty, and community partners. The Community Engagement and Outreach Core will facilitate university-community partnerships, with the ultimate goal of improved minority health and reduced health disparities in Chicago. The aims of the 2 research projects are: Study 1: To develop a model of disparities in mortality from prostate and colorectal cancer in the Chicago metropolitan area to conduct a population-based analysis of potential clinical, social, and healthcare-related mechanisms for the mortality disparities; Study 2: To identify the barriers contributing to the racial/socioeconomic disparities in colorectal cancer treatment care continuum. The Community Core includes a specific dissemination project aimed at reducing breast cancer mortality. With very strong institutional commitment, stellar leadership, integrating the full complement of our 6 health sciences programs, we aim for a comprehensive strategy incorporating research, education, policy changes, and community partnerships to reduce health disparities in Chicago and Illinois. 1A. OVERALL CENTER (PRIORITY SCORE: 168)