NORTHEASTERN MINORITY ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER

东北少数民族口腔健康研究中心（NMOHRC）是一个 UMDNJ-新泽西牙科学校（NJDS）和 康涅狄格大学口腔医学院（UCONN）。 总 目标是：1-维持和加强一个研究口腔健康的中心， 少数族裔，2-支持、指导和建议初级少数族裔调查员， 增加种族和少数民族教师的参与 在研究方面，3-加强NJDS的研究能力， 注重口语教学的设计、实施和分析研究 健康的少数民族，研究项目的一般重点将是 龋齿，艾滋病毒和口腔癌的口腔表现，所有健康 这些问题对少数民族的影响比对白人的影响大。研究将基于 基于心理生物医学模型， 社会文化和生物医学组成部分，并假设有多个， 口腔疾病的病因。项目的相互关联主题 将是一种临床/流行病学/行为学方法来确定 这些疾病在少数民族中的流行率和病因。 国家人权事务委员会 将由一个行政服务核心，一个研究设计， 数据管理和分析核心和行为科学核心。 四 将在下列地区进行预防护理龋的研究计划： 非常年轻的儿童，艾滋病毒感染的儿科口腔表现 人口，口腔的生物/行为标志物的识别 老年少数群体的癌症，以及一项关于其根本原因的研究 少数民族受试者自愿参加生物医学研究， 率高于白人。

The Northeastern Minority Oral Health Research Center (NMOHRC) is a collaborative project between UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School (NJDS) and University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine (UCONN). The general aims are: 1- maintain and strengthen a center to study oral health in minorities, 2-support, mentor and advise junior minority investigators to increase the participation of racial and ethnic minority faculty members in research, 3- strengthen the research capacity of NJDS with a specific emphasis on design, implementation and analysis of research on the oral health minorities, The general focus of the research projects will be on dental caries, oral manifestations of HIV and oral cancer, all health problems that affect minorities more than whites. Studies will be based upon a psychobiomedical model which incorporates psychological, sociocultural and biomedical components and assumes that there are multi- factorial causes of oral disease. The interrelated theme of the projects will be a clinical/epidemiological/behavioral approach to determining the prevalence and etiologies of these diseases in minorities. The NMOHRC will be composed of an Administrative Services Core, a Research Design, Data Management and Analysis Core and a Behavioral Sciences Core. Four research projects will be conducted on the prevention of nursing caries in very young children, oral manifestations of HIV infection in a pediatric population, the identification of biological/ behavioral markers of oral cancer in older age minorities, and a study of the underlying reasons why minority subjects volunteer to participate in biomedical research at lower rates than whites.