Hopkins Center For Health Disparities Solutions

本申请是对RFA-MD-11-002《NIMHD综合卓越中心(第60页)》的响应。申请机构是约翰·霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院。我们寻求支持，以继续霍普金斯健康差异解决方案中心(HCHDS)的工作，该中心成立于2002年，资金来自NCMHD-EXPORT中心项目。我们建议进行三个主要研究项目。这些项目的横向主题是“探索一体化环境中的健康差距”。我们的方法是通过使用一种新颖的研究设计来检查健康和医疗保健差距的社会决定因素，该研究设计允许我们检查与健康差距有关的一系列重要研究问题。除了我们的研究任务外，我们还提出了三项社区健康参与倡议，其中一项是与马里兰州塔尔博特县的一个农村社区合作。第二项活动是与寻求改善医疗结果差异的医院社区合作。第三个是与教堂、大学和社区组织一起的全国性活动。此外，我们建议继续开展我们非常成功的工作，培训卫生专业人员，使之能够有效地解决卫生差距问题。该中心的具体目标是： 1)开展研究，促进对种族健康状况差异的生物学、行为和社会环境病因的了解； 2)开展研究，促进对卫生保健获取、利用和护理质量方面种族差异的决定因素的了解； 3)与社区合作伙伴合作，提高对健康差距的认识，并帮助他们努力改善健康和与健康有关的成果； 4)提高对健康差距研究感兴趣的学生和教师的研究能力；以及 5)作为协调中心和催化剂，推动约翰·霍普金斯大学和其他地方与健康差距有关的研究和培训。

This application is in response to RFA-MD-11-002, "NIMHD Comprehensive Centers of Excellence (P60)." The applicant organization is the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. We seek support to continue the work of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) which was established in 2002 with funding from the NCMHD-EXPORT Center program. We propose to conduct three major research projects. The cross-cutting theme for these projects is "exploring health disparities in integrated settings." Our approach is to examine social determinants of health and healthcare disparities by using a novel study design which allows us to examine a verity of important research questions related to health disparities. In addition to our research mission, we propose three community health engagement initiatives, one with a rural community in Talbot County, MD. A second activity is with a community of hospitals who seek to improve disparities in healthcare outcomes. The third is a national activity with churches, universities and community-based organizations. Additionally, we propose to continue our highly successful work in training health professionals to become effective addressing health disparities. The specific aims of the center are: 1) To conduct research that advances knowledge of the biological, behavioral, and socio-environmental etiology of race disparities in health status; 2) To conduct research that advances knowledge of the determinants of race disparities in healthcare access, utilization, and quality of care; 3) To work with community-based partners to raise awareness of health disparities and aid them in their efforts to improve health and health-related outcomes; 4) To enhance the capacity of student and faculty researchers interested in health disparities research; and 5) To serve as a coordinating center and catalyst for the advancement of research and training related to health disparities at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere.