JABSOM Endowed Chair for Native Hawaiian Health

描述(由申请人提供)：国家少数民族健康和健康差距中心(NCMHD)提高研究和培训能力捐赠计划为夏威夷大学(UH)约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院(JABS(O)M)的夏威夷原住民卓越中心(NHCOE)提供了一个机会，通过招聘一名研究主任来建立一个研究计划，并为基础设施、计划、教育和研究寻求可再生的资金来源。这两个机会都将鼓励努力减少和消除夏威夷原住民和其他未得到充分服务的人群的健康差距。尽管夏威夷居民的总体寿命是全国最长的，健康状况也是最好的之一，但夏威夷原住民的相对预期寿命是所有主要种族中最低的，比该州平均水平低约5岁。在夏威夷所有主要种族中，NH人的年龄-性别标准化死亡率最高，他们因心脏病、事故、癌症、自杀、艾滋病、中风、糖尿病、慢性肺部疾病和慢性肝病而失去的生产寿命更长。为解决这些重大的健康差距，提出了以下具体目标：1)为JABSOM的一名教席设立捐赠基金，该教席将担任NHCOE的研究主任。该基金将由UH基金会管理，并由JABSOM的NHCOE管理；2)通过将来自慈善信托、私营行业、私人公民的收入、募集和遗赠进行再投资，以及从NIH和其他机构申请其他资金机会，来扩大NCMHD捐赠的主体；3)招聘一名研究主任，以制定一项强大的研究计划，重点关注NH和其他未得到充分服务的人群的健康差距；以及4)为从事NH健康研究的研究人员建立一个可再生的资金来源，支持学生，加强教育和培训计划，并建设基础设施，以支持NHCOE和健康差距研究计划的目标。这笔赠款的目标是建立一个有效的组织，促进夏威夷所有土著居民和未得到充分服务的人口的身心健康。这项研究计划旨在“缩小……亚太地区岛民和其他未得到充分服务的人口在疾病负担和死亡方面的差距，与整个国家相比。”

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Endowment Program for Increasing Research and Training Capacity provides the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence (NHCOE) at the University of Hawaii (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABS(o)M) an opportunity to establish a research program through the recruitment of a Director of Research under the $21 funding mechanism and to pursue a renewable source of funding for infrastructure, programs, education and research. Both of these opportunities will encourage efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities in Native Hawaiians and other underserved populations. Although residents of Hawaii enjoy one of the longest overall life span and the best health status in the nation, the comparative life expectancy of Native Hawaiians (NH) is the lowest of all major ethnic groups and is about 5 years less than the state average. The NH suffer the highest age-sex standardized mortality rates of any major ethnic group in Hawaii and have more years of productive life lost due to heart disease, accidents, cancer, suicide, AIDS, stroke, diabetes, chronic lung disease and chronic liver disease. The following specific aims are proposed to address these major health disparities: 1) to establish an endowment fund for a Chair at JABSOM who will serve as the Director of Research at the NHCOE. The fund will be managed by the UH Foundation and administered by the NHCOE at JABSOM; 2) To increase the corpus of the NCMHD endowment through reinvestment of earnings, solicitations and bequests from charitable trusts, private industry, private citizens and applications for other funding opportunities from the NIH and other agencies; 3) To recruit a Director of Research to develop a strong research program focused on health disparities of NH and other underserved populations; and 4) To establish a renewable source of funding for researchers engaged in disparities in NH health research, support for students, enhance educational and training programs and build infrastructure to support the objectives of the NHCOE and the health disparities research program. The goal of this grant is to develop an effective organization for promoting the physical and mental health of all Native Hawaiians and underserved populations in Hawaii. The research program addresses the objective of this RFA to "close the gap between disparities in the burden of illness and death experienced by ... Asian Pacific Islanders and other underserved populations as compared to the Nation as a whole."