Engagement Core

社区推动的预防肥胖相关癌症研究中心（Center for Transformative Community-driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer）的核心参与（Engagement Core）认为，与利益相关者的积极参与加速了研究参与，并产生了有意义的成果。我们将专注于在英亩家园社区社区参与的科学。我们将优先考虑建立信任，理解其在社区学术关系中的至关重要性，特别是考虑到过去机构可能利用社区的情况。我们在Acres Homes社区的努力，以MD安德森的Be Well Communities模式为例，奠定了信任的基础。通过投资于社区确定的需求，与30多个社区组织建立伙伴关系，并建立共享的健康治理，我们为社区参与科学发现创造了独特的机会。这种信任，加上Be Well™ Acres Home计划的经验，为信任科学和鼓励社区参与公共卫生研究和实践树立了基准。在这些成就的基础上，我们的目标是：（1）利用Be Well Acres Homes指导委员会作为中心社区咨询委员会（CAB）来促进研究合作提高中心研究人员和Acres Homes社区开展社区参与研究的能力;（2）建立中心研究人员和Acres Homes社区开展社区参与研究的能力;（3）制定和实施劳动力发展计划，为学员和研究人员提供体验式服务学习经验;（4）开发，测试和传播有效的信息和新方法，使持续贫困地区的个人参与癌症预防研究。

The Engagement Core within the Center for Transformative Community-driven Research to Prevent Obesity-related Cancer (the Center) believes that active engagement with stakeholders accelerates research participation and yields meaningful outcomes. We will focus on the science of community engagement in the Acres Homes community. We will prioritize building trust, understanding its paramount importance in community-academic relationships, especially given past instances where institutions might have taken advantage of communities. Our efforts in the Acres Homes community, exemplified by MD Anderson’s Be Well Communities model, have laid a foundation of trust. By investing in community-identified needs, forging partnerships with over 30 community organizations, and establishing shared health governance, we've created a unique opportunity for community-engaged scientific discovery. This trust, alongside the experience with the Be Well™ Acres Home initiative, sets a benchmark for trusting science and encouraging community engagement in public health research and practice. Building on these achievements, our aims are to: (1) Leverage the Be Well Acres Homes steering committee as the Center community advisory board (CAB) to foster research collaborations Enhance the capability of Center researchers and the Acres Homes community to undertake community-engaged research; (2) Build capacity of Center investigators and Acres Homes community to conduct community-engaged research; (3) Develop and implement a workforce development program to provide experiential service-learning experiences for trainees and investigators; (4) Develop, test, and disseminate effective messages and novel methods to engage individuals from persistent poverty areas in cancer prevention research.