Research and Educational Advancement Center/Health

为响应RFA rr - 01 -007题为“NCMHD提高736卫生专业学校研究和培训能力的捐赠计划”，查尔斯R.德鲁医学和科学大学（德鲁）寻求建立一项捐赠，以创建和维持德鲁的“健康差距研究和教育进步中心（REACH）”。REACH将成为DREW学习资源中心（LRC）的一个新组成部分。具体而言，REACH将加强机构基础设施和规划，以促进教师发展和学生医学论文计划，重点是健康差异研究。德鲁医学院增加的医学论文项目强调健康差异，将进一步加强我们医学生的研究和学术基础。在过去的5年里，德鲁医学院有97/110（88%）代表性不足的医学生毕业，目前是唯一一所要求进行初级保健研究项目的医学院。REACH将结合具有文化敏感性的研究方法论课程，以及在社区研究、健康结果研究和多元文化社区研究伦理等领域的积极研究经验。REACH将为这些初级教师和医学生提供工具，以解决临床医生、研究人员、卫生政策制定者和/或社区教育工作者的健康差距，并鼓励创造新颖和创新的方法来解决这些差距。因此，REACH将针对美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的健康差距战略计划，培训一批代表性不足的初级教师和医学生，使他们对存在医疗差距的关键领域有更高的认识。拟议的捐赠将通过德鲁与加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的合作进行管理，为有效和复杂的投资组合捐赠管理奠定基础，符合全国最高水平的标准。该基金的投资组合预计将产生扣除费用后的年化总回报率，比按全国消费者价格指数（national consumer price index）衡量的5年期通货膨胀率高出5%。基金会的支出政策规定了资金发放给基金持有人用于其当前支出的比率，并由财务委员会每年审查一次。为了实现其投资目标，捐赠基金的投资组合将在若干资产类别中进行分配，其中可能包括国内股票、国内固定收益、国际股票、风险资本和现金。分配投资组合的资产类别的目的是确保在捐赠基金内适当的多样化水平。这将确保建立一个自我维持计划所必需的财政偿付能力。

In response to the RFA RR-O1-007 entitled "NCMHD Endowment Program for Increasing Research and Training Capacity in Section 736 Health Professions Schools" the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (DREW) seeks to establish an endowment that will create and sustain the DREW "Research & Educational Advancement Center for Health Disparities (REACH)." REACH will be a new component within the DREW Learning Resource Center (LRC). Specifically, REACH will enhance institutional infrastructure and programming for faculty development and the student Medical Thesis program, with an emphasis on health disparities research. The addition of a Medical Thesis program with an emphasis on health disparities at DREW will further bolster the research and academic foundation of our medical students. Over the last 5 years, DREW has graduated 97/110 (88%) underrepresented medical students and is presently the only medical school with a required primary care research project. REACH will combine a culturally sensitive research methodology curriculum with an active research experience in areas such as communitybased research, health outcome research, and research ethics in multicultural communities. REACH will provide these junior faculty and medical students with the tools to address health disparities as clinicians, researchers, health policy makers and/or community educators, and encourage the creation of novel and innovative ways to address these disparities. Thus, REACH will address the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Health Disparities Strategic Plan of training a pool of underrepresented junior faculty and medical students with a heightened sense of awareness of the critical areas where health care disparities exist. The proposed endowment will be managed through DREW's collaboration with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) providing an established foundation of effective and sophisticated portfolio endowment management consistent with the highest level of standards in the nation. The endowment's portfolio is expected to generate a total annualized rate of return, net of fees, 5% greater than the rate of inflation as measured by the national consumer price index over a rolling 5-year period. The Foundation's spending policy governs the rate at which funds are released to fundholders for their current spending and is reviewed annually by the Finance Committe. To achieve its investment objectives, the Endowment portfolio will be allocated among a number of asset classes that may include domestic equity, domestic fixed income, international equity, venture capital and cash. The purpose of allocating the investment portfolio's asset classes is to ensure the proper level of diversification within the Endowment. This will ensure the fiscal solvency necessary for creating a self- sustaining program.