Quick Start: A Short Course for Stimulating Innovative Collaborative Research on

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学的加州乳腺癌研究项目（CBCRP）（一个学术机构）、公益组织（一个非营利组织）和Plumbline Coaching and Consulting（一个社区参与咨询公司）提议开发和领导Quick Start，这是一个创新的12周短期培训项目。该项目将加强加州不同种族和地域的社区/学术伙伴关系的技能和能力，以开展基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR），研究乳腺癌的环境原因和差异，以及减少乳腺癌痛苦的解决方案。为此，我们建议每年提供五次为期12周的能力建设培训，以提高学术/社区团队形成持久伙伴关系、制定创造性和科学严谨的研究建议以及开展基于社区的参与性研究的能力。具体目标1：确定学术研究人员与加州社区组织之间新的或现有的合作，以开展专注于乳腺癌的环境原因和/或社会差异的研究，并建立其开展CBPR的能力。具体目标2：开发和改进短期课程，培养社区/学术团队开展CBPR的能力。具体目标3：通过经过培训的伙伴关系，产生合作研究项目，这些项目有可能改变我们对乳腺癌的环境原因和/或社会差异的理解。具体目标4：制定经过测试和完善的课程以及相关材料和工具，供公众分发

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) of the University of California (an academic institution), Commonweal (a nonprofit organization) and Plumbline Coaching and Consulting (a community-engagement consulting firm) propose to develop and lead Quick Start, an innovative 12-week short-course training program. This program will enhance skills and capabilities of racially and geographically diverse community/academic partnerships in California to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) in the urgent fields of inquiry on the environmental causes of and disparities in breast cancer, and the solutions that will reduce the suffering from breast cancer. We propose to do this by offering five annual capacity-building 12-week trainings that improve academic/community teams' ability to form lasting partnerships, develop creative and scientifically rigorous research proposals, and conduct community-based participatory research. SPECIFIC AIM 1: Identify new or existing collaborations between academic researchers and California community organizations to conduct research focused on environmental causes and/or social disparities in breast cancer and build their capacity to conduct CBPR SPECIFIC AIM 2: Develop and improve a short-course curriculum that builds capacity for community/academic teams to conduct CBPR. SPECIFIC AIM 3: Generate collaborative research projects, through those partnerships trained, that have the potential to transform our understanding of the environmental causes of and/or social disparities in breast cancer. SPECIFIC AIM 4: Develop a tested and refined curriculum and accompanying materials and tools for public distribution