USU Center for Health Disparities Research

描述（由申请人提供）：USU健康差异研究中心（USUCHD-R）将从事生物医学和行为健康研究计划，以减少和消除健康差异。该中心将继续并扩大其目前的长期行为改变研究计划，以减少和预防非裔美国妇女的肥胖，并将这项研究经验的结果应用于建立一个关于心血管疾病（CVD）和代谢综合征的计划，这两种疾病都不成比例地影响少数民族人口。将调查与生活方式和健康、获得保健、健康状况和健康差距有关的问题。USUCHD-R的五个目标是：（1）维护和加强当前出口中心的组织和行政基础设施，以支持和促进USUCHD-R活动的实施和执行，将其转变为卓越的探索性研究中心。(2)扩大USUCHD正在进行的成功研究活动的范围，以探索少数人群中CVD和代谢综合征的生理，行为和心理社会基础。(3)在USUCHD-R内为少数民族毕业生和生物医学和临床科学的初级教师创造新的和特殊的培训机会。(4)积极让社区合作伙伴参与研究，培训机会和教育产品，以提高对CVD和代谢综合征健康差异的认识。(5)翻译研究成果和新知识，并传播旨在预防心血管疾病，风险因素和相关疾病的信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The USU Center for Health Disparities Research (USUCHD-R) will engage a program of biomedical and behavioral health research to reduce and eliminate health disparities. The Center will continue and expand its current research program on long term behavioral modification to reduce and prevent obesity among African American women and apply the results of this research experience to build a program on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and the metabolic syndrome, both of which disproportionately affect minority populations. Issues related to lifestyle and health, health care access, health status and health disparities will be investigated. The five objectives of the USUCHD-R are to: (1) Maintain and strengthen the organizational and administrative infrastructure of the current EXPORT Center to support and facilitate the implementation and execution of the activities of the USUCHD-R that will transform it into an exploratory research center of excellence. (2) Expand the scope of ongoing successful research activities of the USUCHD to explore the physiological, behavioral, and psychosocial underpinnings of CVD and the metabolic syndrome in minority populations. (3) Create new and exceptional training opportunities within the USUCHD-R for minority graduates and junior faculty in the biomedical and clinical sciences. (4) Actively involve community partners in research, training opportunities, and educational offerings to increase awareness of CVD and metabolic syndrome health disparities. (5) Translate the research results and new knowledge and disseminate information aimed at the prevention of CVD, risk factors and associated morbidities.