HAWAII MINORITY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT PROGRAM

亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民（AAPIs）是美国种族和族裔少数群体中增长最快、最多样化的群体，但他们仍然经常被不准确地视为同质的“模范少数族裔”，几乎没有健康或社会问题。根据卫生和人类服务部亚太裔工作组的说法，没有足够的数据或健康状况，也没有开发任何数据系统来系统地监测亚太裔的健康状况。夏威夷少数民族研究基础设施研究计划旨在建立研究基础设施，以衡量和评估亚太裔的种族健康差异，并为发展中的研究人员提供成为独立调查员所需的指导和培训。具体目标是：1。发展研究基础设施，包括技术支持，这对增加和改进关于亚太裔人口和亚人口的数据收集、分析和传播至关重要。2. 促进各机构之间的合作，以支持在夏威夷开展保健服务研究，并加速将研究成果转化为实践。3. 建立一个互动指导小组，由国家认可的顾问组成，以协助实施和评估假设驱动的研究项目。4. 实施由研究者发起、假设驱动的项目，研究癌症和精神疾病患者的护理质量以及抗高血压药物的依从性。为了实现这些目标，将招聘和培训人员（包括一名生物统计学家和项目经理）；合作关系，包括实物支持和获取数据和其他资源；将在夏威夷大学和夏威夷最大的医疗保险公司和医院之间建立一个基础设施，以支持为支持本提案中的三个项目而开发的基础设施，这些基础设施可用于确定在广泛的疾病状态下亚太裔人之间是否存在健康差异，并促进与其他少数民族机构的合作，以解决影响种族/族裔健康差异的普遍问题。

Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are the fastest growing and most diverse of this country's racial and ethnic minorities but are still often viewed inaccurately as a homogenous 'model minority' with few health or social issues. According to the Department of Health and Human Services APPI Working Group, adequate data or health status are not available and no data system has been developed to monitor systematically the health status of AAPIs The Hawaii Minority Research Infrastructure Research Program is designed to build research infrastructure to measure and evaluate racial health disparities for AAPIs and provide developing researchers with the mentorship and training necessary to become independent investigators. The specific aims are to: 1. Develop research infrastructure, including technical support, essential to increase and improve collection, analyses, and dissemination of data about AAPI populations and subpopulations. 2. Facilitate collaboration between institutions to support the conduct of health services research in Hawaii and to accelerate the translation of research into practice. 3. Establish an interactive mentoring group, consisting of nationally recognized advisors, to assist in the implementation and evaluation of hypothesis-driven research projects. 4. Implement investigator-initiated, hypothesis-driven projects on the quality of care for patients with cancer and psychiatric disorders and compliance with anti-hypertensive medications. To meet these aims, personnel (including a biostatistician and program manager) will be recruited and trained; a collaborative relationship, including in-kind support and access to data and other resources, between the University of Hawaii and Hawaii's largest medical insurer and hospital will be established in support of this infrastructure developed to support the three projects in this proposal can be used to determine if health disparities exist among AAPIs for a broad range of disease states and to facilitate collaborations with other minority institutions to address universal issues affecting racial/ethnic health disparities.