The Penn Violence and Injury Control Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议宾夕法尼亚大学暴力和伤害控制研究中心(PVICRC)作为一个发展性红十字委员会，其重点是通过最高水平的科学、教育和外联减少低资源人群中的暴力和伤害。拟议的中心将把大学、社区和政府合作伙伴聚集在一起，围绕可能产生最大影响的伤害和暴力干预计划。这些影响大的计划通常有三个基本特征：进行结构性改变(例如，对地方)，可扩展以覆盖大量人口，以及长期可持续。低资源人群的伤害预防面临着独特的问题，即贫困、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因素，而暴力和伤害预防研究人员迄今对这些问题研究不足。在不忽视农村伤害的重要性的同时，拟议中心的一个主要重点将是通过注重环境、生物和行为的交叉，建立更有效力和效率的方法，以减少城市背景下的暴力和伤害。通过这样做，这个发展中的红十字国际委员会将建立一个持续的、全面的伤害中心的基础设施和能力，该中心将利用研究、教育和宣传来更广泛地预防脆弱、资源匮乏的社区的伤害。该中心目前的学术和临床环境为损伤科学、教育和外展提供了丰富的资源，但历来缺乏致力于培养和维持高素质损伤研究科学家、培训、翻译和外展的中央结构。该发展中心的目标是促进和开展最高质量的研究、培训，并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，即行政核心和培训、教育和外联(TEO)核心、一个规划委员会和一个中心研究项目，这是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试验，以科学地评估这些变化对暴力的影响。在行政核心的领导下，TEO核心、一个规划委员会和一个核心研究项目将合作完成重要的研究、培训和翻译活动，同时让宾夕法尼亚社区以及地方和国家利益攸关方参与规划、实施和推进一个资金充足和可持续的综合红十字委员会。

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.