Brooklyn Health Disparities Center

描述(申请人提供)：布鲁克林健康差距中心是一个新型的合作伙伴关系，成立于2004年，由一个以社区为基础的组织(Arthur Ahe Institute For Urban Health)、一个政府机构(Brooklyn Borough总裁办公室)和一个学术研究机构(SUNY-DownState Medical Center)组成，致力于缩小布鲁克林的健康差距，并提高学者、社区成员和政策制定者在这一过程中的参与度。该中心的长期目标是促进社区参与的研究，有助于消除纽约布鲁克林的种族/民族健康差距，并在学术、社区和政策利益相关者中传播随后的临床和社区定义的基于证据的健康结果。其具体目标是：1)建立充满活力的研究基础设施，将促进纽约州立大学下州的五所学院、亚瑟·阿什城市健康研究所及其在纽约布鲁克林的社区合作伙伴之间开展社区参与研究合作；2)就纽约州布鲁克林的优先主题(即艾滋病毒和心脏代谢疾病)进行方法上严格的社区参与研究；3)继续促进和加强当地社区伙伴关系，以制定社区参与研究倡议和缩小差距的政策倡议；以及4)培训高中、本科生和研究生水平的未被充分代表的少数群体(URM)，通过采用社区参与方法来解决布鲁克林的健康差距。为了实现研究目标，北京博爱发展中心将在之前举办的S社区合作伙伴教育研讨会、博爱发展青少年暑期实习项目和城市管理初级教师培训项目的基础上，继续开展这方面的工作。具体地说，该中心将：举办研讨会，促进DownState医学中心的健康差异研究人员与社区成员之间的合作，以发起拨款和研究项目；实施和开发社区参与的艾滋病毒干预研究和阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停社区筛查项目；将为URM本科生和硕士学生创建培训/指导计划，并将为URM高中生扩展既定的健康差异课程。促进公平的社区-学术-政府合作，发展社区参与的项目，并增加成功的URM研究人员的数量，这与布鲁克林健康差距中心减少健康差距和增加卫生职业多样性的承诺是一致的。拟议的项目将大大增加适当的可复制模式，以减少和消除健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Brooklyn Health Disparities Center is a novel partnership formed in 2004 between a community-based organization (Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health), a government agency (Office of the Brooklyn Borough President) and an academic research institution (SUNY - Downstate Medical Center) that is committed to reducing health disparities in Brooklyn and increasing the level of engagement of academics, community members, and policy makers in the process. The long-term objectives of the Center are to foster community engaged research that contributes to the elimination of racial/ethnic health disparities in Brooklyn, New York and disseminate the ensuing clinically and community defined evidence-based health findings among academic, community, and policy stakeholders. The specific aims are: 1) to establish a dynamic research infrastructure that will foster community-engaged research collaborations among SUNY Downstate's five colleges, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, and its community partners in Brooklyn, NY; 2) conduct methodologically rigorous community-engaged research on high priority topics in Brooklyn, NY (i.e. HIV and cardiometabolic diseases); 3) continue to foster and strengthen local community partnerships to develop community-engaged research initiatives and disparity reducing policy initiatives; and 4) train high school, undergraduate, and graduate level underrepresented minorities (URM) to address health disparities in Brooklyn by employing community engaged approaches. In order to address the research aims, the BHDC will build on previous workshops s to educate community partners, the BHDC Youth summer internship program, and a training program for URM junior faculty. Specifically, the Center will: host seminars to facilitate partnerships between health disparities researchers at Downstate Medical Center and community members to initiate grants and research projects; implement and develop a community engaged HIV intervention study and an obstructive sleep apnea community-engaged screening project; a training/mentoring program will be created for URM undergraduate and master's level students, and an established health disparities curriculum will be expanded for URM high school students. Fostering equitable community-academic-government collaborations, developing community-engaged projects, and increasing the number of successful URM researchers is consistent with the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center's commitment of reducing health disparities and increasing diversity in the health professions. The proposed projects will significantly add to appropriate replicable models for reducing and eliminating health disparities.