Coordinating Center of Excellence in Social Promotion of Health Equity Research

在美国国立卫生研究院、国家少数民族健康和健康差异中心的持续支持下，我们建议利用我们合作努力的优势，通过创建一个健康公平研究、教育和社区参与社会促进卓越协调中心（CCE-SPHERE），为了解和减少南卡罗来纳州和美国东南部地区的健康差异做出有意义的贡献，该中心将为利用社会科学框架。该应用程序扩展了我们癌症和艾滋病毒研究卓越中心（导出项目）下开始的工作，该工作提供了一个机会，利用 HBCU 合作伙伴（克拉夫林大学）和南卡罗来纳大学消除健康差距合作伙伴研究所 (USC-IPEHD.USC-IPEHD. 目前的应用程序利用 USC-IPEHD 和 CU 的生物、社会和行为科学方面的专业知识以及广泛的社区网络来开展基础的、基于社区的参与性和转化性研究，重点关注 HIV 和 HPV 介导的疾病，这可能有助于在目标社区中以健康公平取代健康差距。该项目提议的活动将：(1) 促进和增加南卡罗来纳大学及其合作伙伴的健康差异和少数族裔健康研究； (2) 增加少数族裔研究人员的数量，在弱势和服务不足的社区开展基于社区的参与性研究； (3) 招募、培训和指导学生、教师和未来的研究领导者 来自希望在少数群体健康或健康差异方面开展工作的代表性不足的人群； (4) 加强我们在健康差异和少数族裔健康方面的社区伙伴关系，以改善南卡罗来纳州和美国东南部地区少数族裔人口的健康状况； (5) 将大学的少数族裔健康和健康差异项目、机构和资源整合到一个无缝的基础设施中，以促进社区、学科和机构单位之间的沟通和合作。

With continued support from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, we propose to build upon the strengths of our collaborative efforts to meaningfully contribute to the understanding and reduction of health disparities in South Carolina and in the southeastern region of the United States, by creating a Coordinating Center of Excellence in the Social Promotion of Health Equity Research, Education and Community Engagement (CCE-SPHERE) that will provide the basis for conducting basic science and community-based participatory research using a social science framework. This application expands the work started under our Center of Excellence in Cancer and HIV Research (Project EXPORT) that provided an opportunity to create a focused research partnership utilizing the strengths of an HBCU partner (Claflin University) and the University of South Carolina's Institute for Partnerships to Eliminate Health Disparities (USC-IPEHD. The current application takes the resident expertise in biological, social and behavioral science at USC-IPEHD and CU and an expansive community network to conduct basic, community-based participatory and translational research focused on HIV and HPV-mediated diseases, which could serve to replace health disparity with health equity in a targeted community. The activities proposed in this project will: (1) promote and increase health disparities and minority health research at the University of South Carolina and our partners; (2) increase the number of minority researchers conducting community-based participatory research in vulnerable and underserved communities; (3) recruit, train and mentor students, faculty and future research leaders who are from underrepresented populations wishing to conduct work in minority health or health disparities; (4) enhance our community partnerships in health disparities and minority health to improve the health status of minority populations in South Carolina and the southeastern region of the US; and (5) integrate the University's minority health and health disparities programs, institutions, and resources into a seamless infrastructure that fosters communication and collaboration across communities, academic disciplines, and institutional units.