CENTER FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES & HIV

心血管疾病健康差异研究中心

• 批准号: 8082107
• 负责人: Adebayo O. Oyekan
• 金额: $ 20.44万
• 依托单位: TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8082107
• 关键词: Address; Affect; African American; Basic Science; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Cardiovascular Diseases; Clinical; Community Health; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Faculty; Future; Goals; HIV; Health; Health Professional; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Hypertension; Joints; Journals; Kidney Failure; Laboratories; Malignant Neoplasms; Minority; Mission; Morbidity - disease rate; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Public Health; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Support; Research Training; Resources; Role; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Solutions; Stroke; Texas; Training; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; behavioral health; biomedical resource; career; graduate student; health disparity; meetings; mortality; programs; public health research

African Americans share a disproportionate burden of the morbidity and mortality associated with conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and others. Yet, they constitute a disproportionate 5 percent of biomedical and behavioral researchers within the US. There is, therefore, a need for greater involvement of African Americans in health disparities research. The establishment of the Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CCD) at Texas Southern University (TSU) was to enhance biomedical research capability of TSU and ultimately address health and other problems that disproportionately affect urban minorities. The CCD initiated basic research activities targeted at cardiovascular diseases that are prominent among African Americans through activities that include but not limited to seminars, journal clubs, laboratory training of undergraduate and graduate students, and advanced training for postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. These activities have met the goals of enhancing biomedical research capacity building at TSU. However, a clinical/public health research component is missing. The primary goal of this proposal, therefore, is to build upon the existing programs and resources available in TSU's Center for Cardiovascular Diseases by promoting resources for biomedical research training capacity in health disparities research. The specific aims of this proposal are to: 1. Support the retention of a recently hired junior-level faculty investigator for behavioral research. 2. Establish a new Center for Health Disparities Research and support the recruitment of additional investigators in health disparities research.

非裔美国人在心血管疾病、某些癌症、人类免疫缺陷病毒 (HIV)、性传播感染 (STI) 等疾病相关的发病率和死亡率方面承担着不成比例的负担。然而，他们在美国生物医学和行为研究人员中所占的比例却高达 5%。因此，非裔美国人需要更多地参与健康差异研究。德克萨斯南方大学 (TSU) 成立心血管疾病中心 (CCD) 是为了增强 TSU 的生物医学研究能力，并最终解决对城市少数族裔影响较大的健康和其他问题。 CCD通过包括但不限于研讨会、期刊俱乐部、本科生和研究生的实验室培训以及博士后和初级教师的高级培训等活动，发起了针对非裔美国人中常见的心血管疾病的基础研究活动。这些活动实现了加强托国立大学生物医学研究能力建设的目标。然而，缺少临床/公共卫生研究部分。因此，该提案的主要目标是通过促进健康差异研究中生物医学研究培训能力的资源，以 TSU 心血管疾病中心现有的计划和资源为基础。 该提案的具体目标是： 1. 支持保留最近聘用的初级研究员进行行为研究。 2. 建立一个新的健康差异研究中心，并支持招募更多研究人员进行健康差异研究。