Caribbean Exploratory Research Center Phase II: Building On Our Progress

描述（由申请人提供）：提交此更新申请是为了支持持续的少数民族健康和健康差异研究，研究培训和教育，以及美属维尔京群岛的社区外展活动。加勒比探索性研究中心第二期将继续过去四年建立的学术和社区合作，并使美属维尔京群岛的核心研究人员能够继续发展，提高开展研究的技能，以发现、了解并最终减少该领土的健康差距。此外，该中心将继续开展研究教育和培训项目，支持维尔京群岛大学教职员工、学生和社区参与者发展研究项目，以消除维尔京群岛的具体健康差距。该中心的长期成果将是在该领土上出现有能力的研究人员，他们了解人口的性质，能够发起、调整或转化研究和教育活动，使之符合人口的需求、文化和多样性。最后，该中心将继续扩大其社区参与和外展活动，通过方案，提高少数民族健康和健康差距的社区意识，并促进社区参与解决差距。加勒比探索研究中心第二阶段的目标是：1）记录美属维尔京群岛的健康差距; 2）描述美属维尔京群岛健康差距的决定因素; 3）最终减少美属维尔京群岛的健康差距。至关重要的是，该中心继续发展学术和社区合作，扩大基础设施，以支持旨在了解和最终消除美国境内健康状况差异的研究项目。S.维尔京群岛与这一延期申请一起提交了两个研究次级项目：1）对遭受亲密伴侣暴力的非洲裔加勒比妇女的综合减少风险干预措施; 2）了解维尔京群岛向胰岛素抵抗过渡的情况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application is submitted to support continued minority health and health disparities research, research training and education, and community outreach activities in the US Virgin Islands. The Caribbean Exploratory Research Center Phase II will continue academic and community collaborations established over the past four years, and permit the continued development of a core of researchers in the US Virgin Islands with increasing skills in conducting research designed to detect, understand and ultimately reduce health disparities in the territory. In addition, the Center will continue researh education and training projects supporting the development of UVI faculty, students and community participants in research projects designed to adiJress specific health disparities in the Virgin Islands. The long term outcome of the Center will be the presence of competent researchers in the territory who understand the nature of the population and can initiate, adapt or translate research and education activities to be congruent with the needs, culture and diversity of the population. Finally, the Center will continue to expand its community engagement and outreach activities through programs that increase community awareness of minority health and health disparities and promote community involvement in addressing disparities. The goals of the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center Phase II are to 1) document health disparities in the US Virgin Islands 2) describe determinants of health disparities in the US Virgin Islands and 3) ultimately reduce health disparities in the US Virgin Islands. It is critical that the Center contiue to develop academic and community collaborations and expand the infrastructure to support research projects aimed at understanding and eventually eliminating disparities in health status in the territory of the U. S. Virgin Islands Two research subprojects are submitted with this renewal application 1) An Integrated Risk Reduction Intervention for African Caribbean Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and 2) Understanding the Transition to Insulin Resistance in the Virgin Islands.