Morehouse College Research Center on Health Disparities

描述（由申请人提供）：消除种族和族裔健康差异的挑战要求将研究扩展到生物医学模型之外，因为种族/族裔健康差异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，健康结果中种族/民族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。此外，我们建议消除差距的解决方案需要社区参与的方法。该提案由莫尔豪斯学院代表佐治亚州亚特兰大市四所历史悠久的黑人本科学院提交：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），以发展社区外展、健康和培训差异研究（EXPORT）项目的卓越合作伙伴关系。EXPORT项目的具体目标是：1)发展一个研究小组（教职员工和学生），对种族/族裔健康差异的社会决定因素进行跨学科研究；2)开发研究问题、试点研究或可行性研究，探索差异的行为、文化、经济或政治决定因素；3)为AUC初级和中期职业教师提供指导机会，在密歇根大学和疾病控制与预防中心开展健康差异的社会决定因素研究；4)发展以社区为基础的参与性研究方法，研究消除健康差距的干预方法；5)直接与整个东南地区的基层社区组织合作，开发与社区公共卫生和环境卫生问题相关的项目；6)为非裔美国高中生和大学生提供科学方面的教育和研究机会；7)将健康差异纳入每个本科学院的研究课程和研讨会的课程。经过三年的EXPORT项目，AUC将拥有一支跨学科的研究团队，致力于为研究种族和民族健康差异创建一个创新的多学科框架，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.