Morehouse College Research Center on Health Disparities

说明(申请人提供)：消除种族和民族健康差距的挑战需要扩大生物医学模型之外的研究，因为种族/民族健康差距的许多决定因素不同于导致总体人口发病率下降的因素。我们认为，种族/民族健康结果差异的许多决定因素本质上是社会、行为、文化、经济、历史和政治的。此外，我们建议，消除不平等的解决办法需要社区参与的办法。这项提案是由莫尔豪斯学院代表佐治亚州亚特兰大四所历史上黑人本科生学院的联合体提交的：莫尔豪斯学院、斯佩尔曼学院、莫里斯·布朗学院和克拉克-亚特兰大大学，统称为亚特兰大大学中心(AUC)，以开发社区推广、健康差距研究和培训(EXPORT)项目中的卓越伙伴关系。出口项目的具体目标是：1)培养一支研究团队(教职员工和学生)，从事种族/民族健康差距的社会决定因素的跨学科研究；2)开发探索差异的行为、文化、经济或政治决定因素的研究问题、试点研究或可行性研究；3)为初级和职业生涯中期的AUC教职员工提供指导机会，在密歇根大学和疾病控制和预防中心开展健康差距的社会决定因素研究；4)开发基于社区的参与式研究方法，研究消除健康差距的干预方法；5)与整个东南部的基层社区组织直接合作，制定与社区公共卫生和环境卫生问题有关的项目；6)为非裔美国高中生和本科生提供科学教育和研究机会；7)将健康差距纳入每个本科学院的研究课程和研讨会的课程中。在出口项目3年后，AUC将拥有一个跨学科的研究团队，致力于创建一个创新的、多学科的框架来研究种族和民族健康差异，并开发将概念和分析社会科学结构与行为结构和基于人口的研究相结合的研究技术。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The challenge of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities requires expanding research beyond the biomedical model since many of the determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities differ from the factors that lead to an overall population decline in disease rates. We think that many of the determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes are social, behavioral, cultural, economic, historical, and political in nature. Furthermore, we propose that the solutions for eliminating disparities require community participatory approaches. This proposal is being submitted by Morehouse College on behalf of a consortia of four historically Black undergraduate colleges in Atlanta, Georgia: Morehouse College, Spelman College, Morris Brown College, and Clark-Atlanta University, collectively referred to as the Atlanta University Center (AUC), to develop an Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Disparities in Health and Training (EXPORT) project. The specific aims of the EXPORT project are: 1) To develop a team of researchers (faculty, staff, students) that engage in conducting interdisciplinary studies of the social determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities; 2) To develop research questions, pilot studies, or feasibility studies that explore behavioral, cultural, economic, or political determinants of disparity; 3) To provide junior level and mid-career AUC faculty with mentoring opportunities to conduct social determinants of health disparities research at the University of Michigan and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 4) To develop community-based participatory research methods for studying intervention approaches to eliminating health disparities; 5) To work directly with grassroots community organizations throughout the southeast to develop projects related to community public health and environmental health issues; 6) To provide African American high school and undergraduate students with educational and research opportunities in science; and 7) to integrate health disparities into the curricula of each of the undergraduate college's research courses and seminars. After 3 years of the EXPORT project, the AUC will have an interdisciplinary team of researchers dedicated to creating an innovative, multidisciplinary framework for studying racial and ethnic health disparities and to developing research techniques that integrate conceptual and analytic social science constructs with behavioral constructs and population-based research.