RIMI-CSULB

描述（由申请人提供）：鉴于其地理位置，多元化的学生团体，与社区组织的强大合作历史，以及其高级和新兴的教师研究专业知识和兴趣，加州州立大学，长滩（CSULB）具有独特的地位，为国家努力减少和消除健康差距做出了显着贡献。在CSULB的优势，教师的研究工作和基础设施的基础上，拟议的RIMI项目将解决差距和挑战，进行健康差距和少数民族健康促进的研究，并对这些主题感兴趣的教师和学生的培训。拟议的RIMI项目将包括四个核心：行政和能力建设核心，研究教师发展核心（其中三个教师子项目），学术充实学生核心和共享资源核心。重点将是社区和公共卫生办法，以减少差距。总体研究能力建设计划的具体目标是：1）建立一个由科学家和行政人员组成的咨询委员会，为项目提供战略指导，并建立一个社区咨询委员会，确保纳入社区和研究人员的观点; 2）建立一个健康差异研究中心，促进少数民族健康和健康差异研究和培训; 3）根据最佳实践提供指导和培训，以增加教师在健康差距和少数民族健康主题方面的研究和成功的校外资金申请; 4）为教师研究员提供资金和释放时间，以进行研究并制定强有力的研究计划; 5）为来自代表性不足群体的研究生提供培训和研究经验，以提高他们对博士学位的兴趣和准备。在健康差距和少数民族健康问题方面开展水平研究;和5）开发一套共享资源CSULB的学生和教师有兴趣在健康差距的研究，将包括建议和手册准备支持，数据收集，输入和分析资源，包括网站和网络支持的通信和研讨会的在线社区，以及长滩市中心的一个强化社区外展设施。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the Applicant): Given its geographic placement, diverse student body, strong collaborative history with community-based organizations, and its senior and budding faculty research expertise and interests, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is uniquely positioned to make noteworthy contributions to the national efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities. Building on CSULB's strengths, faculty research efforts and infrastructure, the proposed RIMI project will address gaps and challenges to conducting research on health disparities and minority health promotion, and training of faculty and students interested In these topics. The proposed RIMI project will consist of four Cores: the Administrative and Capacity Building Core, the Research Faculty Development Core (under which three faculty subprojects fall), the Academic Enrichment for Students Core, and the Shared Resources Core. The focus will be community and public health approaches to reducing disparities. The specific aims of the overall research capacity building plan are to: 1) Create an Advisory Committee composed of scientists and administrators who will provide strategic direction to the project, and create a Community Advisory Board that will insure incorporation of a community and researcher perspective; 2) Create a Health Disparities Research Center that will promote minority health and health disparities research and training; 3) Provide mentorship and training based on best practices to increase faculty research and successful extramural funding requests in health disparities and minority health topics; 4) Provide funding and release time for faculty fellows to conduct research and develop a robust research program; 5) Provide training and research experience for graduate students from underrepresented groups to increase interest and readiness for doctoral-level research in health disparities and minority health topics; and 5) Develop a set of shared resources for CSULB students and faculty interested in health disparities research that would include proposal and manual preparation support, data collection, entry, and analysis resources, an online community including website and web-enabled communication and seminars, and an enhanced community outreach facility in downtown Long Beach.