1/2 Addressing Rural Cancer Health Disparities: An SCC-SIUSM Partnership

1/2 解决农村癌症健康差异：SCC-SIUSM 合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 9140061
• 负责人: LAURENT BRARD
• 金额: $ 21.52万
• 依托单位: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCH OF MED
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-08 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9140061
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Affect; Agreement; Applications Grants; Area; Awareness; Basic Science; Cancer Burden; Cancer Center; Clinical; Collaborations; Communities; Complex; Comprehensive Cancer Center; County; Data; Detection; Development; Environment; Faculty; Feasibility Studies; Fostering; Foundations; Funding; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Sciences; Illinois; Incidence; Institutes; Institution; Joints; Lead; Learning; Link; Low income; Malignant Neoplasms; Master' s Degree; Mentorship; Mission; Mississippi; NCI-Designated Cancer Center; Outcome; Persons; Pilot Projects; Population; Population Heterogeneity; Postdoctoral Fellow; Poverty; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Publications; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Training; Rivers; Rural; Rural Community; Rural Health; Rural Population; Saints; Scientist; Seeds; Site; Staging; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Training Support; Training and Education; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Washington; Work; anticancer research; cancer care; cancer health disparity; cancer risk; career development; design; education research; experience; falls; flexibility; health disparity; health science research; improved; investigator training; medical schools; medically underserved; meetings; mortality; population based; population health; programs; screening; skills; socioeconomic disadvantage; success; symposium; training opportunity; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) ABSTRACT (OVERALL): Low-income rural communities experience significant cancer health disparities, including lower screening rates, increased incidence, and later stage at detection, poorer survival, and higher mortality. The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSM) and its Simmons Cancer Institute serve much of the central rural, southern rural, and Delta regions of Illinois. These rural communities have higher poverty rates and are medically underserved with disparately high cancer burden. SIUSM has established a partnership with the NCI-designated Siteman Cancer Center (SCC) at Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL), and SCC's Prevention and Control Program, entitled, Addressing Rural Cancer Health Disparities: An SCC-SIUSM PARTNERSHIP. To prepare for this application, we initiated planning activities in summer 2013. These collaborative planning activities included shared discussions, bi-monthly executive conference calls, in-person meetings at both sites, and early collaborative research efforts between SCC and SIUSM investigators. An Internal Advisory Committee comprised of representatives from each institution and key stakeholders from the region was formed and active in planning this application. The partnership goals are to: 1) build SIUSM cancer research capacity and support SIUSM faculty in transitioning to NIH-funded cancer disparities research, 2) provide opportunities for mid- and senior-level investigators to engage in cross- institutional cancer research and increase the rural cancer research scope and capacity at SCC, and 3) foster the development of post- doctoral scholars and junior faculty at both institutions to develop independent researchers in cancer disparities research. We will use three strategies to achieve these goals: First, a newly developed Pilot Research Program now allows junior investigators to gain research seed funding, collaborative experience and preliminary data for future NIH grants. This growing program prompted by this NCI PAR has already funded one on-going collaborative pilot, and another pilot is included in this application. Second, SCC will provide SIUSM faculty and trainees with access to research seminars and other training opportunities at SCC, and offer short-term investigator exchange programs. Third, building on career development activities ongoing at SCC, the two institutions will share strategies for faculty early career development. In particular, WUSTL's Division of Public Health Sciences offers a 10-month Master's degree in Population Health Science. We will identify clinician-scientists at SIUSM who want to build these research skills through coursework. We envision that these training activities may grow into an R25E or T32 application for rural cancer disparities research. Building on and leveraging the world-class cancer research and training programs at SCC and its Division of Public Health Science, and the rurally-focused mission of SIUSM and its commitment to develop population health science research, this Partnership will provide an important avenue for training and supporting a cadre of basic, clinical and population-based scientists at SIUSM with a focus on alleviating rural cancer disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）摘要（总体）：低收入农村社区经历了显著的癌症健康差异，包括筛查率较低，发病率增加，发现时较晚，生存率较差，死亡率较高。南伊利诺伊大学医学院（SIUSM）及其西蒙斯癌症研究所服务于伊利诺伊州的中部农村，南部农村和三角洲地区。这些农村社区的贫困率较高，医疗服务不足，癌症负担非常高。SIUSM与华盛顿大学圣刘易斯分校（WUSTL）的NCI指定的Siteman癌症中心（SCC）以及SCC的预防和控制计划建立了伙伴关系，该计划题为“解决农村癌症健康差距：SCC-SIUSM伙伴关系”。为了准备这一应用，我们在2013年夏季启动了规划活动。这些合作规划活动包括共享讨论、每两个月一次的执行电话会议、两个研究中心的面对面会议以及SCC和SIUSM研究者之间的早期合作研究工作。成立了一个内部咨询委员会，由每个机构的代表和该区域的主要利益攸关方组成，并积极规划这一申请。伙伴关系的目标是：1）建立SIUSM癌症研究能力，并支持SIUSM教师过渡到NIH资助的癌症差异研究，2）为中级和高级研究人员提供参与跨机构癌症研究的机会，并增加SCC的农村癌症研究范围和能力，3）培养两所院校的博士后学者和初级教师，培养独立的癌症差异研究人员。我们将使用三种策略来实现这些目标：首先，一个新开发的试点研究计划现在允许初级研究人员获得研究种子资金，合作经验和初步数据，为未来的NIH赠款。由NCI PAR推动的这一不断增长的计划已经资助了一个正在进行的合作试点，另一个试点包括在此应用程序中。其次，SCC将为SIUSM的教师和学员提供参加SCC研究研讨会和其他培训的机会，并提供短期的研究人员交流计划。第三，在SCC正在进行的职业发展活动的基础上，两个机构将分享教师早期职业发展的战略。特别是，WUSTL的公共卫生科学部提供了一个为期10个月的人口健康科学硕士学位。我们将确定在SIUSM谁想要通过课程建立这些研究技能的临床科学家。我们设想，这些培训活动可能会发展成为R25 E或T32应用于农村癌症差异研究。建立和利用SCC及其公共卫生科学部门的世界级癌症研究和培训计划，以及SIUSM以农村为重点的使命及其发展人口健康科学研究的承诺，该伙伴关系将为培训和支持SIUSM的基础，临床和人口为基础的科学家骨干提供重要途径，重点是减轻农村癌症差异。