AANCART: The National Center for Reducing Asian American Cancer Health Disparitie

简介（由申请人提供）：为响应RFA-CA-09-032，亚裔美国人癌症意识、研究和培训网络（AANCART）提议创建减少亚裔美国人癌症健康差异的国家中心，命名为AANCART：国家中心。该中心由学术和社区首席研究员领导，将采用基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）方法来实现其具体目标：1)建立一个国家中心，以AANCART在过去9年作为nci资助的社区网络项目创建的社区-学术伙伴关系网络为基础，开展外展、研究和培训，该项目取得了许多重大成就，并在社区中建立了信任；2)向社区推广，以减少亚裔美国人的癌症差异和相关的合并症；3)开展、促进和传播循证干预研究，以减少亚裔美国人面临的不必要的癌症负担；4)培训和培养新的和早期的CBPR研究人员提交同行评议的提案，并获得资助，开展研究，以减少健康差距。这份U54申请表显示了：1)中心的行政组织方式；2）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to RFA-CA-09-032, the Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART) proposes to create the National Center for Reducing Asian American Cancer Health Disparities entitled AANCART: The National Center. This Center, led by academic and community Principal investigators, will use a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to achieve its Specific Aims: 1) Build a National Center to conduct outreach, research, and training based on the network of community-academic partnerships created by AANCART in the preceding 9 years as an NCI-funded Community Network Program, which has generated many significant accomplishments and established trust in the community; 2) Outreach to communities to reduce cancer disparities and related co-morbid conditions among Asian Americans; 3) Conduct, foster, and disseminate evidence-based intervention Research to reduce the unnecessary cancer burden confronting Asian Americans; 4) Train and nurture new and early stage CBPR investigators to submit peer-reviewed proposals and obtain funding to conduct research to reduce health disparities. This U54 application shows: 1) How the Center is administratively organized; 2) How the Outreach Program will be implemented among 4 Asian American populations in California and Hawaii by creating and increasing access to culturally appropriate, linguistically-specific, and evidence-based materials designed to increase knowledge about cancer and the use of beneficial preventive procedures; 3) How a 5-year Full Research Project will develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate the results of a cluster randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of lay health educators to promote colorectal cancer screening among 4 Asian American groups (Filipinos, Hmong, Korean, and Vietnamese) in 4 regions (Honolulu, Los Angeles, Sacramento, & San Francisco) and how a 2-year Pilot Research Project will assess cognitive & cultural perspectives among Chinese Americans regarding biospecimen collection; and 4) How a Training Program will develop new and early stage investigators by combining individualized mentoring plans, scheduled seminars, and a curriculum linked to the NIH Clinical & Translational Science Awards.