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异中心（NCMHD）提高研究和培训能力捐赠计划为夏威夷大学约翰·a·伯恩斯医学院（JABS(o)M）的夏威夷土著卓越中心（NHCOE）提供了一个机会，通过在21美元的资助机制下招聘研究主任来建立一个研究项目，并为基础设施、项目、教育和研究寻求可再生的资金来源。这两个机会将鼓励努力减少和消除夏威夷原住民和其他服务不足人口的健康差距。虽然夏威夷居民拥有全国最长的总体寿命和最好的健康状况，但夏威夷原住民（NH）的相对预期寿命是所有主要种族中最低的，比州平均寿命少5年左右。在夏威夷的所有主要族裔群体中，NH人的年龄-性别标准化死亡率最高，而且由于心脏病、事故、癌症、自杀、艾滋病、中风、糖尿病、慢性肺病和慢性肝病而丧失的生产寿命更长。为解决这些主要的保健差距，提出了以下具体目标：1)设立一个捐赠基金，供JABSOM的一位主席担任国家卫生中心的研究主任。该基金将由休斯敦大学基金会管理，并由JABSOM的NHCOE管理；2)通过收益再投资、慈善信托、私营企业、私人公民的募捐和遗赠以及NIH和其他机构的其他资助机会申请，增加nchd捐赠的主体；3)招聘一名研究主任，制定一个强有力的研究计划，重点关注NH和其他服务不足人群的健康差异；4)为从事国家卫生健康差异研究的研究人员建立可再生的资金来源，支持学生，加强教育和培训计划，并建立基础设施，以支持国家卫生健康中心和健康差异研究计划的目标。这笔赠款的目标是建立一个有效的组织，促进所有夏威夷土著居民和夏威夷服务不足人口的身心健康。该研究项目的目标是“缩小疾病负担和死亡负担之间的差距”。与整个国家相比，亚太岛民和其他服务不足的人群。”

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."