Meharry Medical College-CHC Community Networks Program Center

社区网络计划旨在通过基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）吸引社区成员，解决少数种族/族裔的癌症负担。梅哈里社区卫生中心(CHC)-社区网络计划（CNP）中心将坚持CBPR方法，通过与查塔努加、孟菲斯和纳什维尔的社区卫生中心合作，为目标非裔美国人提供服务。Meharry和合作的卫生保健中心有着共同的愿景，即通过服务、外展和健康来改善卫生保健和卫生成果，并缩小服务不足人群之间的卫生差距。Meharry将承担整个基础设施的领导角色，并将在CBPR框架内提供协调，以便实现目标、目的和具体目的。该中心将包括三个必要的方案组成部分；(1)外展；(2)研究；(3)培训。

The Community Networks Program is designed to address the cancer burden in racial/ethnic minorities by engaging community members through Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).The Meharry Community Health Centers (CHC)-Community Networks Program (CNP) Center will adhere to CBPR methodologies to reach the target populations of African Americans being served by partnering CHCs in Chattanooga, Memphis, and Nashville. Meharry and partnering CHCs share a common vision of improving health care and health outcomes, and reducing health disparities among underserved populations through service, outreach, and wellness. Meharry will assume a leadership role of the entire infrastructure, and will provide coordination within the CBPR framework, so that goals, objectives, and specific aims are achieved. The Center will include the three required program components; (1) Outreach, (2) Research, and (3) Training. The Outreach program will focus on developing a Community Action Plan designed to Improve risk factor status (diet, exercise, smoking, screening, and cancer prevention knowledge) among the targeted population. The large Research Program will work at the three CHCs on HPV and cervical cancer screening, implementing interventions targeting providers, parents and age-appropriate children. The small research project will focus on determining the knowledge, attitudes, and practices relative to providing biospecimens for clinical trials research, and the Training Program will seek to recruit junior faculty as trainees to learn about CBPR methods through a variety of educational techniques, including mentoring, career development plans, conducting pilot projects, attending special workshops, courses and lectures. The MMC-CHC-CNP will oversee and provide logistical support to these program elements to assure smooth coordination and Center excellence, and contribute to a reduction in cancer and other co-morbid health disparities in African Americans in the target areas of Tennessee.