Community Liaison and Recruitment Core

摘要：社区联络和招募核心：(CLRC) 虽然总体来说，美国亚裔是收入最高、受教育程度最高的少数群体，但更多的亚裔生活在 贫困线与美国白人相比，他们不太可能参加生物医学研究，而更有可能 在许多社会和健康结果方面，美国人比白人更容易感受到差异。或许同样如此 重要的是，没有足够的社区参与和必要的支持来增强亚洲 美国社区将全面投入生物医学研究。这些障碍使我们有必要 在亚裔美国人之间发展和实施可持续和公平的伙伴关系 社区和研究人员通过协作研究开发和知识的互惠转移 和专业知识来改善美国亚裔人口的健康。 芝加哥是举办亚洲RCMAR的理想地点，因为它拥有亚洲最多样化和最大的 美国伊利诺伊州的人口是美国第五大亚裔人口，主要集中在 在大芝加哥地区。从2000年到2010年，芝加哥的亚裔美国人增长了39% 大都会地区，贫困人口增加40%。我们的RCMAR和这个CLRC是建立在我们几十年来 汇集了调查人员与广泛的亚洲人群的深度接触、信任和研究 芝加哥。这种实质性的接触和关系将创造必要的脚手架，以催化 增加急需的研究和科学劳动力发展，以减少 亚洲老年人之间的差距和改善他们的健康。为了实现这一点，我们提出了一种协同 通过以下方式优化研究人员招聘、保留和参与度的多层次战略 具体目标：1)在社区合作伙伴一级：建立可持续和协作的社区指导 连接社区和学术机构的委员会，以社区参与、以行动为导向的健康 在芝加哥亚洲老年人口中的推广研究；2)在个人社区成员和 学者层面：扩大RCMAR学者和亚洲人的社区参与研究能力 社区成员通过文化适应、社区定制、互惠的教育和培训 生物医学和行为研究，以充分了解障碍、挑战、社会文化背景 在亚洲社区内或与亚洲社区一起开展研究；3)在个人研究参与者层面：促进 招募和留住亚洲老年人，通过创新的、文化的和语言的 适当的研究扫盲支持工具；4)在社区、州、地区翻译RCMAR研究成果 和国家一级，为实践提供信息，并与其他RCMAR核心协调政策，与国家RCMAR 中心和其他老龄化人口研究中心。通过这些系统的、多层次的方法和 基于我们在过去十年中深入的社区和人种学经验，我们的芝加哥亚洲RCMAR 将开始填补研究和专注于美国老年亚洲人的研究队伍中的严重缺口。

Abstract: Community Liaison and Recruitment Core: (CLRC) While overall US Asians are the highest-income, best-educated minority group, more Asians live below the poverty line compared to white Americans, are less likely to enroll in biomedical research, and are more likely than white Americans to experience disparities in many social and health outcomes. Perhaps equally important, there has been inadequate community engagement and support necessary to empower the Asian American community to be fully engaged in biomedical research. These impediments necessitate further development and implementation of sustainable and equitable partnerships among the Asian American community and researchers through collaborative research development and reciprocal transfer of knowledge and expertise to improve the health of the U.S. Asian population. Chicago is the ideal setting for this Asian RCMAR as it has one of the most diverse and large Asian populations in the U.S. Illinois has the fifth largest Asian population in the U.S., which is primarily concentrated in the greater Chicago area. From 2000 to 2010, there was a 39% growth in Asian Americans in the Chicago metro area, with a 40% increase living in poverty. Our RCMAR and this CLRC are founded on decades of our assembled investigators' deep engagement, trust, and research with a wide range of Asian populations in Chicago. Such substantial engagement and relationships will create the essential scaffolding to catalyze an increase the much-needed research and scientific workforce development necessary to reduce disparities among and improve the health of Asian older adults. To accomplish this, we propose a synergistic multi-level strategy that optimizes research recruitment, retention, and engagement through the following specific aims: 1) At the Community Partner Level: Build a sustainable and collaborative community steering committee connecting community and academic institutions for community-engaged, action-oriented health promotion research in Chicago Asian older adult populations; 2) At the Individual Community Member and Scholar Levels: Expand community-engaged research capacity among RCMAR Scholars and Asian community members through culturally-appropriate, community-tailored, reciprocal education and training in biomedical and behavioral research to fully understand the barriers, challenges, socio-cultural context of conducting research in and with Asian communities; 3) At the Individual Research Participant Level: Facilitate the recruitment and retention of Asian older adults, through an innovative, culturally, and linguistically appropriate research literacy support tool; 4) Translate RCMAR research findings at community, state, regional and national levels to inform practice and policy coordinating with other RCMAR cores, with National RCMAR Centers and other aging population research centers. Through these systematic, multi-level approaches and based on our deep community and ethnographic experiences over the last decade, our Chicago Asian RCMAR will begin to fill the dire gap in research and in the research workforce focused on U.S. older Asians.