NCCU Center for Translational Health Equality Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是NIMHD探索卓越中心（P20）拨款，用于北卡罗来纳中央大学（NCCU）国家少数民族健康与健康差异研究所卓越中心（COE）的5年竞争性更新。该中心更名为ncccu转化健康平等研究中心，将整合和集中正在进行的少数民族健康和健康差异研究，成为一个跨学科和跨学科的企业，并与组织和社区建立新的有效伙伴关系，进行基础研究和转化研究，最终导致少数民族健康的积极转变和消除健康差异。该中心将致力于关注少数民族的健康，特别是少数民族心脏代谢风险的较高患病率，导致发病率和死亡率超过美国一般人口。该中心将通过四个核心运作：1)行政；2)研究;3)科研培训与教育；4)社区参与和外展。研究核心将监督拨款申请中所述的2个完整项目，同时与来自护理、公共卫生、计算机科学、教育和社区组织的研究人员建立新的跨学科合作伙伴关系，为少数民族人口的医疗需求服务。最后，社区参与和外展核心将对北卡罗莱纳州农村医疗服务不足的少数民族人口进行研究，以探索社区健康促进基础设施和人际关系等因素在积极和持续影响该社区2型糖尿病进展轨迹中的作用。这些开创性的社区参与项目将在评估少数民族社区疾病管理和参与的最佳策略以改善心脏代谢健康和消除健康差距方面发挥关键作用。总的来说，ncccu转化健康平等研究中心将成为一个卓越研究中心的典范，通过融合创新的多学科基础研究和转化研究，促进少数民族的健康，减少健康差距，示范研究培训和教育，增加少数民族和医疗服务不足人群中有价值的研究人员的数量。开拓外联研究，积极让农村少数民族社区参与有效和可持续的活动，以改善社区健康和更好地管理疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for a NIMHD Exploratory Center of Excellence (P20) grant for a 5 year competitive renewal of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities' Center of Excellence (COE) at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). Renamed as the NCCU Center for Translational Health Equality Research, this Center will integrate and centralize ongoing minority health and health disparities research into a single interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary enterprise and establish novel effective partnerships with organizations and communities for conducting basic and translational research that ultimately results in positive transformations in minority health and elimination of health disparities. The Center will be committed to focus on minority health and specifically on the higher prevalence of cardiometabolic risk in minorities that result in morbidity and mortality rates in excess of the general U.S. population. The Center will be operated via four cores: 1) Administrative; 2) Research; 3) Research Training and Education; and 4) Community Engagement and Outreach. The Research Core will oversee 2 full projects as described in the grant application, while fostering novel transdisciplinary partnerships with investigators from Nursing, Public Health, Computer Science, Education and community organizations serving the medical needs of minority populations. Finally, the Community Engagement and Outreach Core will conduct studies on a rural medically underserved minority population in North Caroling to explore the role of factors, such as community health-promoting infrastructure and interpersonal relationships, in positively and continuously affecting trajectories of type 2 diabetes progression in this community. These pioneering community engagement projects will be pivotal in assessing optimal strategies for disease management and participation among minority communities to improve cardiometabolic health and eliminate health disparities. Overall, the NCCU Center for Translational Health Equality Research will exemplify a center of research excellence through the assimilation of innovative multidisciplinary basic and translational research that promotes minority health and reduces health disparities, exemplary research training and education that increases the number of meritorious researchers from minority and medically underserved populations, and pioneering Outreach studies that actively engages a rural minority community in effective and sustainable activities for improve community health and better disease management.