The Penn Violence and Injury Control Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提议将宾夕法尼亚大学暴力与伤害控制研究中心（PVICRC）作为一个发展中的红十字国际委员会，其重点是通过最高水平的科学、教育和推广来减少资源匮乏人群中的暴力和伤害。拟议中的中心将把大学、社区和政府合作伙伴聚集在一起，共同开展最有可能产生影响的伤害和暴力干预项目。这些高影响力的项目通常有三个主要特征；它们将：进行结构性改革（例如，对地方进行改革），可扩展以覆盖大量人口，并在很长一段时间内保持可持续。资源匮乏人群的伤害预防面临着贫困、社区参与度低、物质和服务基础设施受到侵蚀、健康差距日益扩大以及周围环境中的结构性压力等独特问题，迄今为止，暴力和伤害预防研究人员对这些问题的研究不足。虽然没有忽视农村伤害的重要性，但拟议的中心的主要重点将是建立更有效和高效的办法，通过注重环境、生物和行为的交叉点来减少城市背景下的暴力和伤害。在此过程中，这个发展型红十字国际委员会将为一个可持续的综合性伤害中心建设基础设施和能力，该中心将利用研究、教育和外联工作，在更广泛的范围内为脆弱、资源匮乏的社区预防伤害。该中心目前的学术和临床环境具有丰富的损伤科学、教育和外展资源，但一直缺乏一个集中的结构，致力于培养和维护高水平的损伤研究科学家、培训、翻译和外展。这个发展中心的目标是促进和执行最高质量的研究、培训和将科学发现转化为实践和政策，以便在全国范围内减少伤害、暴力及其影响，特别是在脆弱的城市人口中。拟议的发展中心围绕两个核心组织，行政核心和培训、教育和推广（TEO）核心，一个规划委员会和一个核心研究项目，一个三臂随机社区干预试验，对费城空置和废弃空间的实际变化进行科学评估，以评估这些变化对暴力的影响。在行政核心、TEO核心、规划委员会和核心研究项目的领导下，将合作完成重要的研究、培训和翻译活动，同时，与宾夕法尼亚大学社区以及地方和国家利益相关方合作，规划、实施和推进一个资金充足、可持续的综合性红十字国际委员会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose the Penn Violence and Injury Control Research Center (PVICRC) as a developmental ICRC whose focus is the reduction of violence and injuries among low-resourced populations through the highest caliber science, education, and outreach. The proposed Center will bring together university, community, and government partners around injury and violence intervention programs with the highest potential for impact. These high impact programs will typically have three cardinal features; they will: make structural changes (for example, to places), be scalable to cover large populations, and be sustainable over long periods of time. Injury prevention among low-resourced populations faces unique issues of poverty, poor community engagement, eroding physical and service infrastructures, growing health disparities, and structural stressors in the surrounding environment that have, heretofore, been under-studied by violence and injury prevention researchers. While not ignoring the importance of rural injuries, a primary focus of the proposed Center would be to build more effective and efficient approaches to reduce violence and injury in an urban context by focusing on the intersections of environment, biology and behavior. In doing so, this developmental ICRC will build the infrastructure and capacity for a sustained, comprehensive injury center that will use research, education and outreach to prevent injuries more broadly for vulnerable, low-resourced communities. The Center's current academic and clinical environment is rich in resources for injury science, education and outreach, but has historically lacked a centralized structure dedicated to the development and maintenance of high caliber injury research scientists, training, translation, and outreach. The goal of this developmental Center is to promote and perform the highest quality research, training and translation of scientific discoveries into practice and policy, in order to reduce injuries, violence and their impact nationwide, particularly among vulnerable urban populations. The proposed developmental Center is organized around two cores, the Administrative Core and the Training, Education and Outreach (TEO) Core, a Planning Board, and a Centerpiece Research Project, a 3-arm randomized community intervention trial of actual changes to vacant and abandoned spaces in Philadelphia to scientifically assess the impact of these changes on violence. Led by the Administrative Core, the TEO Core, a Planning Board, and a Centerpiece Research Project will collaborate to complete important research, training and translation activities while, at the same time, engaging the Penn community, as well as local and national stakeholders, in the planning, implementation, and advancement of a fully funded and sustainable comprehensive ICRC.