Community Engagement Core

摘要 非裔美国男性前列腺癌发病率和死亡率增加的原因可能是 由于固有的生物差异和/或社会经济原因。基于基本策略的组合策略 在非洲，需要生物研究和社区推广计划来抗击这种疾病- 美国社区。癌症研究和治疗发展中心(CCRTD)专注于 通过研究、推广和教育减少前列腺癌差异的负担。为了努力 提供关于不成比例地影响非裔美国人人口的健康差距的信息， CCRTD在2005年设立了社区推广/教育核心，作为其研究工作的一部分。前列腺 癌症对非裔美国人的健康具有毁灭性的影响；因此，它对 CCRTD。自CORE成立以来，CCRTD一直是连接社区的桥梁和倡导者 促进前列腺健康改善的行动。CCRTD还拥有世界上最大的基础 前列腺癌细胞和分子生物学领域的研究科学家。作为其研究活动的一部分， CCRTD每周组织特邀演讲者研讨会和期刊俱乐部系列活动，并主办两年一度的全国 前列腺癌研讨会在中大校园举行。这些场馆在交流科学知识方面发挥着重要作用。 地方和国家一级的信息。我们将让我们的社区合作伙伴参与日常活动 CCRTD并将征求社区的意见，以指导该中心的基础研究。建议的研究 少数民族机构中心(RCMI)方案、社区参与和传播(CED)核心将 结合CCRTD的两大优势，为持续互动的发展创造基础设施 不同社区之间的合作，重点是制定最佳做法，以消除 前列腺癌的健康差距。 核心中心建议在社区中已经建立的关系的基础上为研究人员提供 以及公认需要社区参与学术界的社区成员，在那里 研究证据和社区智慧将为解决健康差距问题提供有效的战略。这 多方面的方法将确保该中心有意义的社区参与研究、培训和 传播活动。认识到有效的社区伙伴关系是随着时间的推移通过 信任、尊重和承诺，核心的战略和任务将是促进和支持 社区参与或参与性研究关系的出现。 CCRTD致力于减少少数群体之间癌症负担的差异，并致力于 通过其方案教育和传播战略实现健康平等。核心计划 扩大这些社区教育活动，提高非裔美国人对前列腺癌的认识 男人。此外，核心将结合其沟通、信息传播、社区教育、 和公共卫生促进战略，以指导有效开展地方宣传活动的优先事项 向非裔美国人社区分发前列腺癌信息，以加强知情决策- 制定战略。这些健康教育活动将有助于土木工程署使用最佳的、对文化敏感的 在这方面，我们将采取更多的方法，并获得洞察力，以调整战略，加强对代表性不足人群的包容。 CED计划的目标是通过以下方式增加更有效的策略来改善前列腺癌的预后 使用社区-学术伙伴关系的方法，并将侧重于两个目标。在目标1中，CED将创建 向非专业人士和科学界传达前列腺癌研究成果的机制。我们会 扩大CCRTD目前以社区为基础的组织，即学校、教会、牧师联盟、 倡导团体等，以创造一个外行和科学界聚集在一起的环境 关于CCRTD实验室开展的癌症研究的相互对话和互动 调查人员。我们将采用CCRTD患者登记、全国研讨会等机制 前列腺癌，每周研讨会系列和量身定做的社区参与焦点小组 将实验室中正在进行的癌症研究与外行社区进行沟通。在目标2中，我们将创建一个 外行社区影响研究所有阶段的环境。这一目标将利用 社区参与健康不平等研讨会系列、试点项目和几个媒体渠道 亚特兰大大都市区让非专业社区为CCRTD正在进行的基础研究做出贡献 实验室。我们将就他们所关注的问题征求非专业人士的建议和指示。 协助研究人员在其实验室中建立研究途径。

Summary The reasons for increased incidence and mortality due to prostate cancer in African-American men could be due to inherent biological differences and/or socio-economic reasons. Combined strategies based on basic biological research and community outreach programs are required to combat this disease in the African- American community. The Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development (CCRTD) focuses on reducing the burden of prostate cancer disparities through research, outreach, and education. In an effort to provide information on health disparities, which disproportionally affects the African-American population, CCRTD established a Community Outreach/Education Core in 2005 as part of its research efforts. Prostate cancer has a devastating effect on the health of African-American men; consequently it is of great concerns for CCRTD. Since the inception of the Core, CCRTD has served as a bridge to the community and as an advocate for action that promotes prostate health improvement. CCRTD also hosts one of the largest group of basic research scientists in the area of prostate cancer cell and molecular biology. As part of its research activities, CCRTD organizes weekly invited speaker seminars and journal club series and host a biennial national prostate cancer symposium on CAU campus. These venues play a significant role in exchange of scientific information at the local and national level. We will engage our community partners in the day-to-day function of CCRTD and will seek input from community to guide basic research at the Center. The proposed Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) program, Community Engagement and Dissemination (CED) core will combine both strengths of CCRTD and create an infrastructure for development of constant interactions between various communities with the focus on the development of the best practices for the elimination of prostate cancer health disparities. The Core proposes to build upon already established relationships in the community to provide researchers and community members with the recognized need of community engagement in academia, where the value of research evidence and community wisdom will provide effective strategies to address health disparities. This multi-faceted approach will ensure the Center’s meaningful community participation in research, training, and dissemination activities. Recognizing that effective community partnerships are constructed over time through trust, respect, and commitment, the strategies and tasks of the Core will be to foster and support the emergence of community engaged or participatory research relationships. The CCRTD is committed to reducing disparities in cancer burdens among minority population groups and to achieving health equality through its programmatic education and dissemination strategies. The Core plans to expand these community education activities to increase prostate cancer awareness among African-American men. In addition, the Core will combine its communications, information dissemination, community education, and public health promotion strategies to guide priorities for local communication campaigns that effectively distribute prostate cancer information to African-American communities in order to enhance informed decision- making strategies. These health education activities will help the CED to use optimal, culturally sensitive approaches, as well as gain insights to adapt strategies to enhance inclusion of underrepresented populations. The goal of the CED program is to increase more effective strategies to improve prostate cancer outcomes by using the community-academic partnership approach and will focus on two aims. In aim 1, CED will create mechanisms to communicate prostate cancer research findings to the lay and scientific community. We will expand upon CCRTD’s current community-based organizations, i.e., schools, churches, ministerial alliances, advocacy groups, etc. to create an environment where the lay and scientific community come together to have mutual dialogue and interaction about cancer research being conducted in laboratories of CCRTD investigators. We will employ mechanisms such as the CCRTD Patient Registry, National Symposium on Prostate Cancer, Weekly Seminar Series and Tailored Community Engagement Focus Groups to communicate cancer research being done in the laboratories to the lay community. In aim 2, we will create an environment where the lay community influences all phases of the research. This aim will utilize the Community Engagement Health Inequity Seminar Series, pilot projects and several media outlets within the Atlanta metropolitan area to have the lay community contribute to basic research being conducted in CCRTD laboratories. We will solicit recommendations and directives from the lay community regarding their concerns related to cancer research to assist investigators in establishing research avenues in their laboratories.