Building Capacity for Health Disparities Research

描述（由申请人提供）：州长州立大学打算增加与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）的合作，以开发一个医疗保健研究中心，通过R24出口卓越健康差异研究中心所做的工作，并加强在少数民族服务机构的健康差异研究的基础设施和能力。UIC将作为医疗保健研究中心的指导机构，作为少数民族服务机构研究基础设施计划的一部分。通过UIC人口健康和健康差异中心协调的指导活动将涉及牙科学院，联合健康学院物理治疗系，中西部拉丁美洲健康研究培训和政策中心，简亚当斯社会工作学院，文科学院社会学系，以及城市规划和公共事务学院的种族和公共政策研究所。公共卫生学院的一名教师也将担任该项目的生物统计顾问。计划在项目后期与护理学院的教师进行更多的指导。该项目有六个目标：1）创造一个有效的研究环境，是跨GSU学院共享; 2）准备教师进行高水平的生物医学和相关研究; 3）准备学生参加高级研究生课程，以赚取专业和研究博士学位; 4）实施教师的职业发展计划; 5）实施和完成个人教师的研究项目，作为基础，以独立资助的研究有关减少健康差距;和6）通过有效的行政和项目管理，发展一个高质量的医疗保健研究中心。该项目还将提供资源，以丰富GSU的物理研究空间，并提供专业的教师研究设备。在GSU建立一个专注于减少健康差距的医疗保健研究中心将使芝加哥南部地区受益。作为该应用程序的一部分，研究项目侧重于影响该地区非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔/拉丁裔和美洲原住民人口的主要医疗保健问题。此外，许多将获得能力的调查人员本身就是经历健康差异的人口的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Governors State University intends to increase its collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to develop a Center for Healthcare Research, building upon the work done through an R24 EXPORT Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research and enhancing the infrastructure and capacity for health disparities research at a minority serving institution. UIC will serve as the mentoring institution for the Center for Healthcare Research as a part of the Research Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions initiative. The mentoring activities, coordinated through the UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities will involve faculty from the College of Dentistry, Department of Physical Therapy in the College of Allied Health, the Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center, Jane Addams College of Social Work, the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. A member of the faculty in the School of Public Health will also serve as a biostatistical consultant to the project. Additional mentoring with faculty from the College of Nursing is planned for later in the project. There are six goals of the project: 1) Create an effective research environment that is shared across GSU colleges; 2) Prepare faculty to conduct high-level biomedical and related research; 3) Prepare students to enroll in advanced graduate programs to earn professional and research doctoral degrees; 4) Implement career development plans for faculty; 5) Implement and complete the individual faculty research projects as a foundation to independent funded research related to reducing health disparities ; and 6) Develop a quality Center for Healthcare Research through effective administration and project management. The project will also provide the resources to enrich the physical research space at GSU and provide specialized faculty research equipment. Creation of a Center for Healthcare Research at GSU focused on reducing health disparities will benefit the Chicago Southland region. Research projects as a part of this application focus on major health care issues affecting the African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American populations in the region. Furthermore, many of the investigators who will gain competency are themselves a part of the populations experiencing health disparities.