NM Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement & Science on Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：新墨西哥大学(UNM)提议建立一个创新的卓越中心，名为新墨西哥州健康差距研究、参与和科学促进中心，或NM CARE HD。基于对土著社区健康差距的共同原因的了解，NM CARE HD将采用一个概念模型，在消除这些差距的干预措施中强调三项原则：1)通过社区参与性研究建立社区伙伴关系；2)在文化和社会背景下采取多因素、多层次的干预措施；3)将循证做法和社区做法结合起来。NM CARE HD将建立在一套强大的、合作的机构项目的基础上，在几个关键领域拥有国家公认的专业知识，与美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区建立长期富有成效的伙伴关系，以及多样化的跨学科合作，以实现其总体目标。这一目标是创建一个充满活力、自给自足的研究中心，推进有关干预和解决西南美洲原住民和西语裔社区健康差距的科学知识基础。一支由NIH资助的高级领导层组成的强大调查团队已经走到了一起，以满足NM CARE HD的特定目标。一个行政核心，一个研究核心，一个研究培训和教育核心，一个社区参与核心，以及两个研究项目将是NMCOE的初始组成，它致力于实现一系列具体的目标和分目标。这些目标是：1.建立一个多学科研究中心，促进干预科学的发展，以消除西南部美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区之间的健康差距；2.提高新墨西哥州大学研究人员竞争NIH个人、与差异有关的研究拨款的能力；3.在新墨西哥州大学的调查人员和美洲原住民和拉美裔社区居民之间建立致力于健康差距研究的伙伴关系。为了实现这些目标，NM CARE HD将开发创新的结构和资源，以支持扩大有关干预措施的研究，以消除这些社区的差异。新教师的资源和机构承诺，以及试点项目和全国会议的支持，使成功的可能性很大。相关性(请参阅说明)：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of New Mexico (UNM) proposes an innovative Center of Excellence titled the New Mexico Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement & Science on Health Disparities, or NM CARES HD. Based on an understanding of the common causes of health disparities across indigenous communities, NM CARES HD will apply a conceptual model that stresses three principles in interventions to eliminate those disparities: 1) community partnering, through community-based participatory research; 2) multifactoral, multilevel interventions within a cultural and social context; and, 3) translating evidence-based and community-based practice. NM CARES HD will build on the foundations of a strong set of established, collaborating institutional programs, nationally recognized expertise in several key areas, long-standing productive partnerships with Native American and Hispanic communities, and a diverse interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve its overall goal. That goal is to create a vigorous, self-sustaining, research center that advances the scientific base of knowledge about interventions and solutions to health disparities in Southwestern Native American and Hispanic communities. A strong team of investigators with senior, NIH- funded leadership has come together to meet the NM CARES HD specific aims. An Administrative Core, a Research Core, a Research Training and Education Core, and a Community Engagement Core together with two research projects will be the initial composition of the NMCOE it works toward meeting a set of specific aims and subaims. Those aims are to: 1. Establish a multidisciplinary research center that advances the science of interventions to eliminate health disparities among Southwestern Native American and Hispanic communities; 2. Enhance the ability of UNM researchers to compete for NIH individual, disparity- related research grants; 3. Build a partnership, dedicated to research on health disparities, between UNM investigators and community residents in Native American and Hispanic communities. In meeting these aims, NM CARES HD will develop innovative structures and resources to support the expansion of research on interventions to eliminate disparities in these communities. The combined resources and institutional commitments of new faculty, and pilot project and national conference support make success highly likely. RELEVANCE (See instructions):