Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention

儿童肥胖预防中心

• 批准号: 9323540
• 负责人: JUDITH Lynne WEBER
• 金额: $ 186.91万
• 依托单位: ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL RES INST
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9323540
• 关键词: 19 year old; 5 year old; Academic support; Address; Adolescent; Area; Arkansas; Asthma; Basic Science; Behavior; Behavioral; Biometry; Career Mobility; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Centers of Research Excellence; Childhood; Clinical Sciences; Collaborations; Communities; Community based prevention; Comorbidity; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Emotional; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Equipment; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Food; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Human Resources; Hypertension; Individual; Informatics; Investigation; Leadership; Low income; Maintenance; Mentors; Metabolic; Metabolism; Nutritional; Obesity; Overweight; Physical activity; Policies; Population; Prevalence; Prevention approach; Principal Investigator; Problem behavior; Process; Program Development; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Support; Resources; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Secure; Services; Sleep Disorders; Statistical Methods; System; Teacher Professional Development; Time; Translating; Wing; Work; base; career development; energy balance; environmental change; experience; faculty mentor; faculty research; innovation; interest; member; obesity in children; obesity prevention; prevent; programs; public health relevance; research facility; senior faculty; social; success; synergism; tenure track

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this application is to develop an integrated, interdisciplinary and translational Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention. Childhood obesity is a national public health threat that is disproportionately worse in Arkansas. Therefore, the immediate goal is to prevent the rise in Arkansas childhood obesity rates, with an ultimate goal of reducing childhood obesity rates by ≥10% (reduction of ~3.8%) in our state over the next 5-10 years. Through the establishment of the Center, we will meet this critical need through a coordinated, community-based approach targeting modifiable individual risk behaviors, environmental risk factors, and local, state and national risk reduction policies. This strategy will include investigation of underlying metabolic factors. We will bring together a group of four promising junior investigators whose collective research focuses on multiple aspects of this central theme, provide these investigators with a supportive infrastructure environment developed specifically to enhance their chances for success, and use the foundation provided by this initial group to develop four additional pipeline junior investigators, as well as to promoe ongoing recruitment of subsequent junior investigators with an interest in community-based approaches to childhood obesity prevention. Specific Aim #1 will establish the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention, addressing childhood obesity through targeted behaviors, environments, and policies. In Specific Aim #2, we will coordinate and enhance existing research infrastructure and collaboration throughout the ACHRI and the UA System in support of the Center. Three cores will be established or enhanced to support the research of Center investigators: an Administrative and Scientific Support Core A, a Biostatistics and Informatics Core B, and a Metabolism Core C, each under the leadership of experienced senior faculty with strong research and administrative backgrounds. The mentoring program will consist of the Center Mentoring Committee (CMC) which includes two senior faculty members matched with each junior investigator and each pipeline investigator (11 total; some overlap); further, the UAMS Faculty Development Program (FDP) supports the general academic career development and advancement of junior faculty through the Promotion and Tenure process. These strategies, in coordination with the expertise of the established senior research faculty and an internal Executive Committee, will provide the synergy and oversight required for the development of ongoing successful external applications to sustain this work.

 描述(申请人提供)：这项申请的目标是发展一个综合的，跨学科的和翻译的儿童肥胖预防中心。儿童肥胖是一个全国性的公共健康威胁，在阿肯色州尤为严重。因此，当前的目标是防止阿肯色州儿童肥胖率的上升，最终目标是在未来5-10年内将我们州的儿童肥胖率降低≥10%(减少~3.8%)。通过该中心的建立，我们将通过一种协调的、以社区为基础的方法来满足这一关键需求，该方法针对可改变的个人风险行为、环境风险因素以及地方、州和国家的风险降低政策。这一战略将包括对潜在代谢因素的调查。我们将召集一支队伍 四名有前途的初级调查员的集体研究集中在这一中心主题的多个方面，为这些调查员提供专门为增加他们的成功机会而开发的支持性基础设施环境，并利用这一初始小组提供的基础发展另外四名初级调查员，以及促进对后续初级调查员的持续招聘，这些调查员对以社区为基础的儿童肥胖症预防方法感兴趣。具体目标1将建立儿童肥胖预防中心，通过有针对性的行为、环境和政策来解决儿童肥胖问题。在具体目标2中，我们将协调和加强整个ACHRI和UA系统中现有的研究基础设施和协作，以支持该中心。将建立或加强三个核心，以支持中心调查人员的研究：行政和科学支助核心A、生物统计和信息学核心B和新陈代谢核心C，每个核心都由具有强大研究和行政背景的经验丰富的高级教员领导。指导计划将由中心指导委员会(CMC)组成，该委员会包括两名高级教员，与每名初级研究员和每名管道调查员(共11名；有些重叠)相匹配；此外，UAMS教师发展计划(FDP)通过晋升和终身教职过程支持初级教师的一般学术职业发展和晋升。这些战略与常设高级研究人员和内部执行委员会的专门知识相协调，将提供开发持续成功的外部应用程序所需的协同作用和监督，以维持这项工作。