Center for Health Equity in Rural Montana

蒙大拿州的美洲原住民和其他农村社区存在严重的健康差距。等 蒙大拿州的印第安人的差异导致全因死亡率比白色人高58 率这项提案的长期目标是减少蒙大拿州农村社区的健康差距。在 为了实现这一目标，蒙大拿州研究型大学的健康差异研究基础设施 必须首先发展，以便适当的专业知识和组织存在，以发展类似的 农村社区的能力。拟建中心将通过完成四项具体任务来满足这一需求。 目标。1.在蒙大拿州农村发展有效和可持续的健康公平中心的基础设施 （CHERM）. 2.通过培训年轻人，在蒙大拿州培养一批临界质量的健康差距研究人员。 调查人员在健康差距的研究和雇用调查人员在这方面的专业知识。这一目标将 首先通过支持和指导MSU当前的健康差异研究人员来完成， 他们竞争R01资金，其次是通过赞助雇用一个额外的终身制轨道 密歇根州立大学美洲原住民或农村健康差异研究助理教授，以及一名高级雇员 密歇根州立大学教授级健康差异研究（朱莉·鲍德温博士）。3.调查和 随后了解导致健康差异的疾病的病因，并合理发展 有效、符合和尊重文化信仰的干预措施。这一目标将是 部分是通过支持研究项目来实现的，这些项目涉及蒙大拿州土著居民的健康差异。 拉丁裔社区。4.培养CHERM研究人员采取跨学科方法的能力 在减少蒙大拿州农村地区的健康差距。CHERM试点项目将与社会学家合作， 心理学家和替补科学家，如免疫学家，生理学家和微生物学家， 社会、文化和行为因素以及生理因素如何相互作用以促进健康 差距。

Native American and other rural communities in Montana suffer from severe health disparities. Such disparities in Montana's Native Americans result in an all-cause death rate that is 58% higher than the white rate. The long term goal of this proposal is to reduce health disparities in Montana's rural communities. In order to achieve this goal, the health disparities research infrastructure at Montana's research universities must first be developed so that the appropriate expertise and organization exist to develop similar capabilities in rural communities. The proposed Center will address this need by accomplishing four specific aims. 1. Develop the infrastructure of an effective and sustainable Center for Health Equity in Rural Montana (CHERM). 2. Develop a critical mass of health disparities researchers in Montana by training young investigators in health disparities research and hiring investigators with expertise in this area. This aim will be accomplished first by supporting and mentoring current health disparities researchers at MSU to make them competitive for R01 funding and secondly by sponsoring the hire of one additional tenure track assistant professor at MSU in Native American or rural health disparities research as well as one senior hire at MSU in health disparities research at the professor level (Dr. Julie Baldwin). 3. Investigate and subsequently understand the etiology of diseases that cause health disparities and rationally develop interventions that are both efficacious and consistent with and respectful of cultural beliefs. This aim will be accomplished in part by supporting research projects that deal with health disparities in Montana's Native and Latino communities. 4. Develop the ability of CHERM investigators to take interdisciplinary approaches in mitigating health disparities in rural Montana. The CHERM pilot project will partner sociologists, psychologists, and bench scientists such as immunologists, physiologists and microbiologists to understand how social, cultural, and behavioral factors, as well as physiological factors, interact to cause health disparities.