Building Capacity and Infrastructure for Population Health and Health Disparities Research at San Diego State University

 描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的五年捐赠战略计划，题为‘建设圣地亚哥州立大学(SDSU)人口健康和健康差距研究的能力和基础设施’(SDSU)是由来自三所学院(卫生与公共服务；工程和科学)的SDSU院长、研究机构主任和来自校园的教师组成的跨学科团队提交的。该战略计划的使命是为创新和重大的转化研究建立基础设施，以实现人口层面的健康变化，并减少美国(美国)种族/民族多样性人口(最明显的是西班牙裔/拉丁裔和移民群体)、性少数群体和低收入人口之间的健康差距。通过建立和维持人口健康和健康差距(PHHD)研究的基础设施，整合各种健康和人文科学、工程学和计算机科学的学科，我们可以更快地将研究成果转化为临床、公共卫生和组织实践的改进， 和人口健康。作为一个为拉美裔服务的机构，SDSU的研究人员是拉美裔/拉美裔健康研究的国家和国际领导者之一。此外，SDSU在性少数群体和移民健康方面有几位新兴领导人。目前的基础设施难以支持该机构产生的研究活动数量，因此本战略计划提议加强有形基础设施以及教职员工和学员的能力，以整合数据收集和干预交付方面的最新技术创新，以及使用大数据来回答与美国人口健康和健康差距相关的一些最紧迫的问题。战略计划的三个目标是：(1)投资于硬件和软件，以支持翻译研究的数据收集和干预交付方面的技术创新，以及使用 (2)投资于技术和编程人员支持，以开发用于PHHD研究的下一代工具；以及(3)通过培训PHHD研究中的团队科学方法，投资于教师、博士后研究员、学生、组织和社区合作伙伴--交叉健康和人文科学(行为科学、流行病学、运动和营养科学、社会工作、心理学、地理学)、工程学和计算机科学。圣地亚哥县的人口多样性可以说代表着美国未来几年的人口多样性；因此，支持SDSU的人口健康和健康差距研究将支持可以在全国推广的新知识和发现，并可能揭示阻止和缩小美国人口中不断扩大的健康差距的持续挑战。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed 5-Year Endowment Strategic Plan entitled `Building Capacity and Infrastructure for Population Health and Health Disparities Research at San Diego State University' (SDSU) is submitted by an interdisciplinary team of SDSU Deans from three colleges (Health and Human Services; Engineering, and Sciences), directors of research institutes, and faculty from across campus. The mission of the Strategic Plan is to create an infrastructure for innovative and significant translational research to achiev population-level health changes and reduce health disparities among racially/ethnically diverse populations (Hispanic/ Latino and immigrant groups most notably), sexual minorities, and lower-income populations in the United States (US). By creating and sustaining an infrastructure for population health and health disparities (PHHD) research that integrates the disciplines of various health and human sciences, engineering and computer sciences, we can more quickly translate research findings to improvements in clinical, public health and organizational practice, and population health. As a Hispanic-Serving Institution, SDSU researchers are among the national and international leaders in Hispanic/Latino health research. Additionally, SDSU has several emerging leaders in sexual minority and immigrant health. Current infrastructure struggles to support the amount of research activity generated at the institution, and so this Strategic Plan is proposing to strengthen the physical infrastructure, and faculty member and trainee capability, to integrate the latest innovations in technology for data collection and intervention delivery, as well as the use of big data to answer some of the most pressing questions relevant to population health and health disparities in the US. Three aims of the Strategic Plan are to: (1) invest in the hardware and software to support technological innovations in data collection and intervention delivery for translational research, and the use of big data to help refine how we understand, measure, and intervene on sources of influence on health; (2) invest in technology and programming personnel support to develop the next generation of tools for PHHD research; and (3) invest in faculty, post-doctoral fellows, students, and organizational and community partners by training on a team science approach in PHHD research - intersecting the disciplines of health and human sciences (behavioral science, epidemiology, exercise and nutritional sciences, social work, psychology, geography), engineering, and computer sciences. San Diego County's population diversity arguably represents that of the US in future years; as such, supporting population health and health disparities research at SDSU will be supporting new knowledge and discoveries that can generalize across the nation, and may inform the ongoing challenge of halting and reducing the widening gap in health disparities within the US population.