Community Engagement and Outreach Core

社区参与和外联(CEO)核心的目标是维持和发展协作性 解决俄克拉荷马州健康公平问题的研究，社区、患者和 供应商。该州有一系列影响部落和农村人口的潜在健康问题 这加剧了俄克拉荷马州的慢性病负担。该州几乎所有的社区都有高失业率 包括糖尿病、心脏病、风湿病和癌症在内的疾病。作为原始密钥 俄克拉荷马州共享临床和翻译资源(OSCTR)的组成部分活动，首席执行官核心有 在建立关系和合作方面非常成功，导致全州范围内的主要或 以社区为导向的方法来解决这些健康问题。核心支持了两个以实践为基础的 研究网络，并建立了俄克拉荷马州初级医疗保健改善合作社(OPHIC)，以 为初级保健和儿科临床和翻译工作提供试验台，以传播和实施 改善医疗保健提供和改善健康结果的研究成果。核心提供了 支持通过非常成功的部落发展部落社区的研究能力和活动 参与单位和我们独特的合作伙伴关系。核心将继续与其主要部门密切合作 社区伙伴，包括南部平原部落健康委员会，该委员会代表42个联邦部落和 俄克拉荷马州和堪萨斯州、切诺基族和奇卡索族的55个部落/IHS保健设施，以及OPHIC to 扩大这些活动，并为部落和农村社区参与努力提供基础设施支持 人口，以及在初级保健环境中。CEO Core正在通过以下方式扩大其先前的活动 与试点项目计划合作，实施新的社区参与研究探索奖 计划提供小额奖励，为研究人员和社区之间的新合作努力提供种子。这个 CORE正在通过训练有素和经验丰富的人员向OSCTR调查人员和学者提供直接支持 研究助理已经嵌入社区，可以帮助启动传播和 实施研究项目，以改善部落和农村人口的健康和保健。这个 CEO将与OSCTR的其他核心合作，建立新的计划，在以下方面指导和培训个人 社区参与的研究。CEO核心活动和我们的包容性社区咨询委员会是 对于持续的利益相关者参与至关重要，使我们的研究人员能够从我们的 社区，探索社区研究需求，保护社区免受少数群体特有的研究风险 消除研究工作的障碍，完成有效的研究项目。首席执行官的核心将 继续加强OSCTR合作伙伴之间的关系，以实现持久和有意义的 合作解决我们社区的主要健康问题，并将制定和支持 基础设施，提高社区合作伙伴的研究能力。

The Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core has the goal to sustain and grow collaborative research that addresses health equity in Oklahoma with the direct involvement of communities, patients, and providers. There is a range of underlying health issues that affect the tribal and rural populations in the state that contribute to Oklahoma's burden of chronic illness. Nearly all the communities in the state have high-rates of diseases that include diabetes, heart disease, rheumatologic disease, and cancer. As an original key component activity of the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources (OSCTR), the CEO Core has been highly successful in building relations and collaborations that have resulted in major statewide or community-oriented approaches to address these health issues. The core has supported two practice-based research networks and established the Oklahoma Primary Healthcare Improvement Cooperative (OPHIC) to provide test beds for primary care and pediatrics clinical and translational efforts to disseminate and implement research findings that improve the delivery of healthcare and improve health outcomes. The Core has provided support to grow research capacity and activities in tribal communities through the highly successful Tribal Engagement Unit and our unique partnerships. The Core will continue to work closely with its primary community partners, including the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board, which represents 42 federal tribes and 55 tribal/IHS health facilities in Oklahoma and Kansas, the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations, and OPHIC to broaden these activities and infrastructure support for community engagement efforts in tribal and rural populations, as well as in primary healthcare settings. The CEO Core is expanding on its previous activities by working with the Pilot Projects Program to implement a new Community-Engaged Research Exploratory Award program to provide small awards to seed new collaborative efforts between researchers and communities. The core is adding direct support to OSCTR investigators and Scholars through highly-trained and experienced research assistants who are already embedded in communities and can help launch dissemination and implementation research projects to improve the health and health care of tribal and rural populations. The CEO will work with the other OSCTR cores to establish new programs to mentor and train individuals in community-engaged research. The CEO Core activities, and our inclusive Community Advisory Board, are critical for sustained stakeholder engagement that allows our researchers to gather information from our communities, explore community research needs, protect communities from research risks unique to minority populations, resolve barriers to research efforts and complete effective research projects. The CEO Core will continue to strengthen relationships between OSCTR partners that allow for durable and meaningful collaborations to address the primary health concerns in our communities and will develop and support infrastructure that increases research capacity within community partners.