Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention

儿童肥胖预防中心

• 批准号: 10014615
• 负责人: JUDITH Lynne WEBER
• 金额: $ 186.97万
• 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/10014615
• 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 Overweight; Clinical Sciences; Collaborations; Communities; Community based prevention; Data; Development; Diabetes Mellitus; Diet; Emotional; Environment; Environmental Risk Factor; Equipment; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Food; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Human Resources; Hypertension; Individual; Informatics; Infrastructure; 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; 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; comorbidity; energy balance; environmental change; experience; faculty mentor; faculty research; innovation; interest; member; obesity in children; obesity prevention; prevent; programs; public health relevance; recruit; 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（由申请人提供）：本申请的目标是建立一个综合的、跨学科的、转化性的儿童肥胖预防中心。儿童肥胖是一个全国性的公共卫生威胁，在阿肯色州尤为严重。因此，近期目标是防止阿肯色州儿童肥胖率上升，最终目标是在未来 5-10 年内将本州儿童肥胖率降低 ≥10%（降低约 3.8%）。通过该中心的建立，我们将通过协调一致的、基于社区的方法来满足这一迫切需求，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、州和国家风险降低政策。该策略将包括对潜在代谢因素的调查。我们将聚集一个小组 四名有前途的初级调查员的集体研究重点关注这一中心主题的多个方面，为这些调查员提供专门开发的支持性基础设施环境，以提高他们成功的机会，并利用这个初始小组提供的基础来发展另外四名初级调查员，并促进不断招募对基于社区的儿童肥胖预防方法感兴趣的后续初级调查员。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 系统的现有研究基础设施和协作，以支持该中心。将建立或增强三个核心来支持中心研究人员的研究：行政和科学支持核心 A、生物统计和信息学核心 B 以及代谢核心 C，每个核心均由具有强大研究和行政背景的经验丰富的高级教师领导。指导计划将由中心指导委员会 (CMC) 组成，其中包括两名高级教职人员，与每位初级研究员和每位管道研究员（总共 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流程支持初级教师的一般学术职业发展和晋升。这些战略与已建立的高级研究人员和内部执行委员会的专业知识相协调，将为开发持续成功的外部应用程序以维持这项工作提供所需的协同作用和监督。