The Penn Violence and Injury Control Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提议成立宾夕法尼亚州暴力和伤害控制研究中心（PVICRC），作为一个发展型红十字国际委员会，其重点是通过最高水平的科学、教育和外展来减少低资源人群中的暴力和伤害。拟议的中心将汇集大学，社区和政府合作伙伴围绕伤害和暴力干预计划具有最高的影响潜力。这些高影响力的项目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，以及可长期持续。低资源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，健康差距不断扩大以及周围环境中的结构性压力因素等独特问题，迄今为止，暴力和伤害预防研究人员尚未充分研究这些问题。在不忽视农村伤害的重要性的同时，拟议中心的主要重点是通过关注环境，生物学和行为的交叉点，建立更有效和高效的方法来减少城市环境中的暴力和伤害。在此过程中，这一发展型红十字国际委员会将为一个持续、全面的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，为弱势、资源匮乏的社区更广泛地预防伤害。该中心目前的学术和临床环境在伤害科学，教育和外展资源丰富，但历史上一直缺乏一个集中的结构，致力于发展和维护高素质的伤害研究科学家，培训，翻译和外展。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，以减少全国范围内的伤害、暴力及其影响，特别是在城市弱势群体中。拟议的发展中心是围绕两个核心，行政核心和培训，教育和推广（TEO）核心，规划委员会，和一个中心研究项目，一个3臂随机社区干预试验的实际变化空置和废弃的空间在费城，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、规划委员会和核心研究项目将合作完成重要的研究、培训和翻译活动，同时让宾州社区以及当地和国家利益相关者参与规划、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.