SDSU HealthLINK Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research

总体--项目摘要 圣地亚哥州立大学(SDSU)是一所西班牙裔服务机构，在圣迭戈设有与健康相关的博士课程 有几个学科。SDSU战略计划的目标之一是继续以卓越为基础 提高其研究和创造性努力的形象，特别强调建设卓越领域 以及应对国家和国际挑战。SDSU的教职员工擅长进行 改善少数群体健康，缩小健康差距。然而，该大学目前缺乏足够的 研究基础设施，以满足这一战略目标，并将不同学科结合在一起，支持创新 少数民族健康与健康差距(MHHD)研究。拟建的SDSU Healthlink中心 跨学科健康差异研究(中心)将解决教职员工、 和行政部门，以实现大学提升其研究形象的愿景，以及促进 创新的MHHD研究。因此，作为对RFA-MD-17-006的回应，国家少数民族健康和发展研究所 健康差距申请在少数民族机构建立研究中心(U54) 提出与RCMI专业中心的目标一致的四个目标。我们将加强我们的制度建设 通过开展研究从事基础生物医学、行为和临床MHHD研究的能力 基础设施核心(RIC)将包含以下支持来源：临床治疗和数据收集 收集、处理和存储生物标本的房间和实验室；使用无线技术和大型 数据(电子健康记录，美国人口普查)，以回答重大和创新的研究问题； 制定和适应不同健康差距人群的循证干预措施 使用经过良好测试的形成性研究方法跨越健康状况；相关调查项目库 和供MHHD研究人员使用的研究方案；以及数据管理和分析方法 将这些与其他数据来源(例如，生物标志物、调查)相结合。这些资源和服务，加上 通过调查员发展核心和职业提升活动为试点项目提供资金 通过行政核心，旨在提高SDSU调查人员的竞争力 获得美国国立卫生研究院的支持，以从事重大和创新的MHHD研究。最后，关于 社区参与核心将促进与其使命与之一致的组织建立长期关系 我们自己的；他们的参与和参与将确保我们满足我们服务和 允许双向能力建设和知识转让。很明显，该中心将产生、使用、 并传播来自基础生物医学、行为和临床研究的结果，以向其他人提供信息 创新研究、实践和政策，改善少数民族健康，缩小健康差距。

OVERALL – Project Summary San Diego State University (SDSU) is a Hispanic-Serving Institution with health-related doctoral programs in several disciplines. One of the goals in SDSU's Strategic Plan, “Building on Excellence” is to continue to enhance its research and creative endeavors profile, with particular emphasis on building areas of excellence and addressing national and international challenges. Faculty at SDSU excel at conducting research that improves minority health and reduces health disparities. However, the university currently lacks adequate research infrastructure to meet this strategic goal and bring diverse disciplines together to support innovative minority health and health disparities (MHHD) research. The proposed SDSU HealthLINK Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (Center) will address critical needs identified by faculty, staff, and the administration to achieve the university's vision of enhancing its research profile as well as facilitate innovative MHHD research. Thus, in response to RFA-MD-17-006, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities request for applications to create Research Centers in Minority Institutions (U54), we propose four aims that align with the goals of the RCMI specialized centers. We will enhance our institutional capacity to engage in basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical MHHD research by developing a Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) that will house the following sources of support: clinical treatment and data collection rooms and a lab to collect, process, and store biospecimens; expertise in using wireless technology and big data (electronic health record, US Census) to answer significant and innovative research questions; development and adaptation of evidence-based interventions across diverse health disparity populations and across health conditions using well-tested formative research methods; a repository of relevant survey items and research protocols for use by MHHD researchers; and data management and analytic approaches for combining these with other sources of data (e.g., biomarkers, survey). These resources and services, coupled with pilot project funding through the Investigator Development Core and career enhancement activities through the Administrative Core, are designed to improve the competitiveness of SDSU investigators to procure NIH support to engage in significant and innovative MHHD research. Finally, partnerships on the Community Engagement Core will foster long-term relationships with organizations whose missions align with our own; their engagement and participation will ensure we meet the needs of the communities we serve and allow for bidirectional capacity building and knowledge transfer. It is clear that the Center will generate, use, and disseminate findings derived from basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research to inform additional innovations in research, practices, and policies to improve minority health and reduce health disparities.