Tulane University PRC

杜兰大学预防研究中心（TU-PRC）未来五年的主题将是物理和社会环境对肥胖的影响。潜在的重要物质和社会环境因素的例子包括：是否有公园、是否有健康和不健康的食品以及是否有组织的青年社群活动。与社区合作伙伴一起制定了一个完整的研究议程，概述了与这一主题相一致的研究类别和具体研究实例。这些研究包括决定因素研究和干预研究。TU-PRC的目标人群将 新奥尔良市的居民，特别是低收入者，其中大多数是非洲裔美国人。TU-PRC将密切协调其预防研究与新资助的新奥尔良一起走新奥尔良（当地的STEPS到一个健康的美国项目）。拟议的核心研究项目将采用以社区为基础的参与性研究方法，并将涉及对基于外行健康顾问的干预措施进行评估，以改变社区环境，支持增加体育活动。除了预防研究本身，TU-PRC的活动还包括：社区合作;交流和 向研究人员、政策制定者和社区成员传播有关中心活动的信息;培训研究人员、从业人员和社区成员。TU-PRC项目和活动将与由当地组织和社区代表组成的社区咨询委员会合作制定。

The theme of the Tulane University Prevention Research Center (TU-PRC) for the next five years will be the lmpact of the Physical and Social Environment on Obesity. Examples of potentially important physical and social environmental factors include: the availability of parks, the availability of healthy and unhealthy foods, and organized community activities for youth. A full research agenda has been developed with community partners that outlines categories of studies and examples of specific studies consistent with this theme. These studies include both determinant research and intervention research. The target population for the TU-PRC will be people in the City of New Orleans, particularly those of low income, most of whom are African-American. The TU-PRC will closely coordinate its prevention research with the newly-funded New Orleans Step Together New Orleans (the local STEPS to a HealthierUS project). The proposed Core Research Project will use community-based participatory research methods and will involve an evaluation of an intervention based on lay health advisors to modify the neighborhood environment to support increased physical activity. Besides the prevention research itself, TU-PRC activities include: community collaboration; communication and dissemination of information about center activities to researchers, policy-makers, and community members; and training for researchers, practitioners, and community members. TU-PRC projects and activities will be developed in partnership with a Community Advisory Board composed of representatives of local organizations and communities.