USF/Moffitt Transdisciplinary Center to Address Cancer Health Disparities

描述(申请人提供)：这个拟议的癌症健康差异中心是一个P20中心，它是根据国家少数民族健康和健康差异中心(NCMHD)探索性卓越中心(RFA-MD-08-004)而设计的。这个拟建中心的总体目标是进行研究并促进减少佛罗里达州癌症健康差距的活动。具体地说，这个拟议的中心将支持研究，这些研究将导致了解与癌症健康差异相关的因素，以及支持、开发、测试和评估旨在减少癌症健康差异的干预措施。整个中心的具体目标是：1)进行拨款申请中详细描述的一套2项主要研究；2)保持四个核心(行政、研究、社区参与以及研究、教育和培训)，支持拟建中心所有研究人员的科学活动；3)开发和实施一整套中心内研究培训和职业发展活动，重点是为科学工作者中代表性不足群体的科学家创造机会；4)开发和实施使社区参与解决健康差距的活动；以及5)作为智力和行政核心，刺激癌症健康差距研究兴趣，中心参与者以及其他癌症研究同事之间的讨论和规划会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed cancer health disparities center is a P20 center which is designed in response to the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Exploratory Centers of Excellence (RFA-MD-08-004). The overall goal of this proposed center is to conduct studies and promote activities that will reduce cancer health disparities in Florida. Specifically, this proposed center will support research that will lead to an understanding of the factors associated with cancer health disparities as well as to the support, development, testing and evaluation of interventions designed to reduce cancer health disparities. The specific aims of the overall center are 1) to conduct a set of 2 major studies as fully described in the grant application, 2) to maintain four cores (administrative, research, community engagement, and research, education and training) that will support the scientific activities of all of the investigators in this proposed center, 3) to develop and implement a full set of intra-center research training and career development activities which focus on creating opportunities for scientists from underrepresented groups within the scientific workforce, 4) to develop and implement activities that engage the community in addressing health disparities, and 5) to serve as an intellectual and administrative nidus to stimulate cancer health disparities research interest, discussions, and planning sessions among center participants as well as other cancer research colleagues.