Community Engagement Core

社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10749786
• 负责人: Gladys E. Maestre
• 金额: $ 32.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-18 至 2028-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10749786
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Anthropology; Biomedical Research; Censuses; Clinical Research; Communication; Communities; Community Networks; Diabetes Mellitus; Disease; Educational workshop; Ethnic Population; Evaluation; Event; Facebook; Family; Focus Groups; Fostering; Future; Genetic; Genetic study; Genome; Genomic medicine; Genomics; Goals; Growth; Health; Health Disparities Research; High School Student; Hispanic; Hispanic Populations; Human Genome; Hybrids; Individual; Interview; Length; Medical; Medicine; Mental disorders; Methods; Mexican; Mexican Americans; Minority; Minority Groups; Obesity; Participant; Persons; Physicians; Population; Process; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Services; Shapes; South Texas; Surveys; Translational Research; Trust; Twitter; United States National Institutes of Health; Update; Woman; Work; community based research; community engagement; community involvement; community organizations; design; equity, diversity, and inclusion; evidence base; experience; health care delivery; health disparity; health equity; improved; induced pluripotent stem cell; information gathering; interest; investigator training; literacy; meetings; member; precision medicine; recruit; response; success; tool; underserved area; uptake; web site

PROJECT SUMMARY The Mexican American population is the fastest growing minority group in the US and experiences significant health disparities. However, Mexican Americans are underrepresented in biomedical research, and the population has barely benefited from the exponential growth of genetic and genomic research that has taken place in recent decades. It is critical that genomic literacy and participation in genomic research improve if the Mexican American population is to benefit from recent and future advances in genomics and precision medicine. The Community Engagement Core (CEC) of the UTRGV Diversity Center for Genome Research is designed to establish new relationships and extend existing relationships with community members and community-based organizations in order to 1) address community-wide health concerns, 2) promote participation in genomic research, and 3) disseminate genomic research findings. The CEC will work closely with each of the other components of the Center to maximize opportunities for engagement with the community. The CEC will build on established networks of interaction and trust in the local community that have been developed over many years by Center investigators through both research and health care delivery efforts. Through a range of activities, the Core will enhance research capacity by improving participation and retention of Mexican Americans in genomic research projects. The Core will address four Specific Aims: 1) to assess the south Texas community needs for, priorities for, barriers to, and interest in biomedical and genomic research through focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and surveys; 2) to build a network of community contacts and enhance community involvement with the Center to improve partnerships and support the recruitment of Mexican American study participants; 3) to foster communication to enhance dissemination and uptake of research results; and 4) to evaluate the success of the Core, and make adjustments as required to meet community and research needs.

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