CENTER FOR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES (CATEGORY 1)

中心申请说明（由研究者提供）：俄勒冈健康与科学大学健康社区中心旨在通过以社区为基础的参与性研究，以及通过培训、传播和评估活动，解决区域部落和其他服务不足社区的健康促进和慢性疾病预防需求。这些地区部落以及我们的伙伴夏威夷土著社区显然代表了服务不足的群体，他们在预防疾病和促进健康方面的需求日益增长。本中心的活动将从这些特殊人群开始，但将扩大到该地区其他服务不足的人群。我们的创新核心研究项目是专注于听力损失相关的残疾预防，这是社区预防研究的新领域。核心项目将侧重于传播噪音导致的听力损失方案，以减少部落和其他社区的听力损失。本中心的目标包括：1)与社区组织、志愿组织和政府组织建立可持续的合作伙伴关系；2)通过培训计划、指导和提供技术援助，在所有合作伙伴之间建立慢性病预防的研究能力；3)开展高质量、社区驱动的预防研究，将其转化为目标社区的政策或实践；4)建立本中心，作为公共卫生研究的区域资源；5)通过举办以社区卫生为重点的研讨会、讲座和会议，将人口健康科学和预防科学作为OHSU的主要研究议程；6)减轻社区确定为预防研究重点的特定慢性疾病造成的疾病负担。我们许多感兴趣的社区合作伙伴，我们在服务不足人群方面的强大研究和培训记录，以及我们深入和广泛的研究合作者和公共卫生合作伙伴，将有助于确保我们中心成功实现其目标。

DESCRIPTION FOR CENTER APPLICATION (provided by the investigator): The Center for Healthy Communities at Oregon Health and Science University is designed to address the health promotion and chronic disease prevention needs of regional tribal and other underserved communities through community-based participatory research, and through training, dissemination, and evaluation activities. The regional tribes, as well as our partner Native Hawaiian communities, clearly represent underserved groups with growing needs related to disease prevention and health promotion. Our Center's activities will begin in these special populations, but will grow to include other underserved populations in the region. Our innovative core research project is focused on disability prevention related to hearing loss -a new area for community-based prevention research. The core project will focus on dissemination of a noise induced hearing loss program to reduce hearing loss in tribal and other communities. The goals of our Center include: 1) develop sustainable collaborative partnerships with community-based, voluntary, and governmental organizations; 2) build research capacity for chronic disease prevention among all partners through training programs, mentoring, and provision of technical assistance; 3) conduct high quality, community-driven prevention research that will translate into policy or practice in the target communities; 4) establish our Center as a regional resource for public health research; 5) foster population health sciences and prevention sciences within OHSU as a major research agenda through offering seminars, lectures, and conferences focused on community health; and 6) reduce the disease burden due to specific chronic diseases that the communities have identified as priorities for prevention research. Our many interested community partners, our strong research and training track record with underserved populations, and our depth and breadth of research collaborators and public health partners will help to ensure the success of our Center in reaching its goals.