Building Capacity for Health Disparities Research

州长州立大学打算加强与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)的合作，以通过R24出口健康差异研究卓越中心所做的工作为基础，建立一个医疗研究中心，并加强少数族裔服务机构的健康差异研究的基础设施和能力。UIC将作为医疗保健研究中心的指导机构，作为少数民族服务机构研究基础设施倡议的一部分。通过UIC人口健康和健康差距中心协调的指导活动将有来自牙科学院、联合卫生学院物理治疗系、中西部拉美裔健康研究培训和政策中心、简·亚当斯社会工作学院、人文学院社会学系以及城市规划与公共事务学院种族与公共政策研究所的教职员工参加。公共卫生学院的一名教员也将担任该项目的生物统计学顾问。该项目的后期还计划由护理学院的教职员工提供额外的指导。该项目有六个目标：1)创建一个有效的研究环境，供GSU学院共享；2)培养教师进行高水平的生物医学及相关研究；3)为学生进入高级研究生课程以获得专业和研究型博士学位做准备；4)实施教师职业发展计划；5)实施和完成教师个人研究项目，作为与减少健康差距相关的独立资助研究的基础；以及6)通过有效的管理和项目管理，建立一个高质量的医疗研究中心。该项目还将提供资源，以丰富格拉斯哥州立大学的物理研究空间，并提供专门的教员研究设备。在格拉斯哥州立大学创建一个专注于减少健康差距的医疗研究中心将使芝加哥南部地区受益。作为这项申请的一部分，研究项目侧重于影响该地区非裔美国人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔和美洲原住民人口的主要医疗保健问题。此外，许多将获得能力的调查人员本身就是经历健康差距的人群的一部分。

Governors State University intends to increase its collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to develop a Center for Healthcare Research, building upon the work done through an R24 EXPORT Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research and enhancing the infrastructure and capacity for health disparities research at a minority serving institution. UIC will serve as the mentoring institution for the Center for Healthcare Research as a part of the Research Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions initiative. The mentoring activities, coordinated through the UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities will involve faculty from the College of Dentistry, Department of Physical Therapy in the College of Allied Health, the Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center, Jane Addams College of Social Work, the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. A member of the faculty in the School of Public Health will also serve as a biostatistical consultant to the project. Additional mentoring with faculty from the College of Nursing is planned for later in the project. There are six goals of the project: 1) Create an effective research environment that is shared across GSU colleges; 2) Prepare faculty to conduct high-level biomedical and related research; 3) Prepare students to enroll in advanced graduate programs to earn professional and research doctoral degrees; 4) Implement career development plans for faculty; 5) Implement and complete the individual faculty research projects as a foundation to independent funded research related to reducing health disparities ; and 6) Develop a quality Center for Healthcare Research through effective administration and project management. The project will also provide the resources to enrich the physical research space at GSU and provide specialized faculty research equipment. Creation of a Center for Healthcare Research at GSU focused on reducing health disparities will benefit the Chicago Southland region. Research projects as a part of this application focus on major health care issues affecting the African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American populations in the region. Furthermore, many of the investigators who will gain competency are themselves a part of the populations experiencing health disparities.