Addressing Cancer Disparities in New Jersey Communities

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求资源开发资金（R24），随后将导致提交P60赠款，用于建立一个全面的出口卓越中心，重点关注癌症差异。该应用程序是医学和新泽西牙科大学（UMDNJ）和泽西城大学（NJCU），唯一的公共四年制少数民族机构（MI）之间的合作，在新泽西州。R24赠款将使合作能够扩大和加强机构基础设施和能力，进行跨学科的健康差异研究，以解决少数民族人口，特别是新泽西不同的非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔人口的癌症差异。纽瓦克和泽西城的毗邻城市将是最初的重点，因为它们有大量的少数民族人口，但随着中心的发展和壮大，其他新泽西社区将被包括在内。R24的具体目标是：1）在UMDNJ和NJCU之间建立合作基础设施，以进行癌症差异研究，社区外展，培训和教育; 2）在健康差异社区建立和扩大关系，以传播癌症教育信息，促进参与生物医学和行为研究以及预防和干预活动; 3）促进谁可以从事健康差距研究的专业人员的发展和培训; 4）促进规划少数民族健康和/或其他健康差距研究的行为;和5）在UMDNJ和NJCU增加少数民族健康和健康差距课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks resource development funding (R24) that would subsequently lead to the submission of a P60 grant for the establishment of a comprehensive EXPORT Center of Excellence focusing on cancer disparities. The application is a collaboration between the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and the New Jersey City University (NJCU), the only public four-year Minority Institution (Ml), in NJ. The R24 grant will enable the collaboration to augment and strengthen institutional infrastructure and capacity to conduct interdisciplinary health disparities research to address cancer disparities in minority populations, specifically the diverse African American and Latino populations in New Jersey. The contiguous cities of Newark and Jersey City will be the initial focus because of their large minority populations, but as the Center develops and grows, other New Jersey communities will be included. The specific aims of the R24 are to: 1) establish a collaborative infrastructure between UMDNJ and NJCU for conducting cancer disparities research, community outreach, training and education; 2) build and extend relationships in the health disparity communities for cancer educational information dissemination and the promotion of participation in biomedical and behavioral research and prevention and intervention activities; 3) promote the development and training of professionals who can engage in health disparities research; 4) promote planning for the conduct of minority health and/or other health disparities research; and 5) augment the minority health and health disparity curricula at UMDNJ and NJCU.