Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research: EI Centro

本申请建议续签迈阿密大学护理与健康研究学院的P60健康差距研究卓越中心：El Centro。在获得资金后的四年里。El Centro开发了资金充足的基础设施，建立了社区和学术联盟，扩大了我们的健康差距(HD)研究培训，并进行了创新的研究研究，以改善少数群体的健康并减少HD。El Centro的目标是在一系列根植于行为的健康状况中减少HD，这些状况对少数群体的影响不成比例：艾滋病毒/艾滋病和其他性传播感染、药物滥用、亲密伴侣暴力以及相关的心理和身体健康状况。El Centro通过以下专题方法执行其使命，这些方法为所有活动提供信息：1)制定、评估和传播针对文化的干预措施；2)解决影响多种HD条件的与文化相关的根本原因和保护因素；3)了解文化、社区参与和技术辅助的方法；4)培养新出现的HD调查员的职业发展，特别是来自HD人群的调查员和5)跨学科团队科学。这项申请提出了两项新的随机转换试验(“SEPA III”和“SET-RECOVERY”)，并将有一项随机试验从当前资助期(“CIFTA-预防”)继续进行。我们提出了四个核心：1)行政，2)研究，3)研究培训和教育，4)社区参与，传播和实施，这是一个新的核心。El Centro已将其重点人群扩大到拉美裔以外，包括黑人和性少数群体，并包括与拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的能力建设倡议。El Centro调查人员种族多样，包括国家公认的高级调查人员，涉及人类学、经济学、教育学、流行病学、卫生政策、医学、护理、营养、心理学和公共卫生等学科。迈阿密大学非常适合建立HD卓越中心，因为它致力于解决HD问题，培训少数族裔学生，以及南佛罗里达州的种族多样性和靠近拉丁美洲和加勒比海地区。

This application proposes to renew the P60 Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research: El Centro, at the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies. In the four years since funded. El Centro has developed a well-funding infrastructure, built community and academic alliances, expanded our health disparities (HD) research training, and conducted innovative research studies to improve minority health and reduce HD. El Centro aims to reduce HD in a constellation of behaviorally-rooted health conditions that disproportionately affect minority groups: HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and associated mental and physical health conditions. El Centro pursues its mission through the following thematic approaches which Inform all activities, 1) development, evaluation and dissemination of culturally-tailored interventions; 2) addressing culturally-related root causes and protective factors that impact multiple HD conditions; 3) culturally-informed, community-engaged and technology assisted methodologies; 4) nurturing the career development of emerging HD investigators, particularly those from HD populations and 5) interdisciplinary team science. This application proposes two new randomized translational trials ("SEPA III" and "SET-Recovery") and will have one randomized trial carried over from the current funding period ("CIFTA-Prevention"). We propose four Cores: 1) Administrative, 2) Research, 3) Research Training and Education, and 4) Community Engagement, Dissemination and Implementation, which is a new Core. El Centro has expanded its priority populations beyond Hispanics to include Blacks and sexual minority groups, and includes capacity-building initiatives with Latin America and the Caribbean. El Centro investigators are ethnically diverse and include nationally recognized senior investigators spanning the disciplines of anthropology, economics, education, epidemiology, health policy, medicine, nursing, nutrition, psychology and public health. The University of Miami Is ideally suited for an HD Center of Excellence due to its commitment to addressing HD, to training minority students and because of the ethnic diversity of South Florida and its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean.