Center for Healthy Native Communities

俄勒冈健康与科学大学健康原住民社区中心旨在通过基于社区的参与性研究以及通过培训、传播和评估活动，满足区域部落和其他服务不足的社区的健康促进和慢性病预防需求。区域部落以及我们的合作伙伴夏威夷原住民社区显然代表着在疾病预防和健康促进方面需求日益增长的服务不足群体。我们中心的活动将从这些特殊人群开始，但将扩大到包括该地区其他服务不足的人群。我们创新的最初核心项目由将在其中开展这些项目的部落社区确定，重点是与视力和听力损失相关的残疾预防-社区预防研究的新领域。我们中心的目标包括：1)与社区、志愿和政府组织发展可持续的合作伙伴关系；2)通过培训计划、指导和提供技术援助，在所有合作伙伴中建立慢性病预防的研究能力；3)开展高质量的、社区驱动的预防研究，将其转化为目标社区的政策或实践；4)将我们的中心建立为公共卫生研究的地区性资源；5)通过提供以社区健康为重点的研讨会、讲座和会议，在OHSU内将人口健康科学和预防科学作为主要研究议程；以及6)减少社区确定为预防研究重点的特定慢性病造成的疾病负担。我们众多感兴趣的社区合作伙伴，我们在服务不足人群中的强大研究和培训记录，以及我们研究合作者和公共卫生合作伙伴--包括狮子会视力和听力基金会--的深度和广度，将有助于确保我们中心成功实现其目标。

The Center for Healthy Native Communities at Oregon Health and Sciences University is designed to address the health promotion and chronic disease prevention needs of regional tribal and other underserved communities through community-based participatory research, and through training, dissemination, and evaluation activities. The regional tribes, as well as our partner Native Hawaiian communities, clearly represent underserved groups with growing needs related to disease prevention and health promotion. Our Center's activities will begin in these special populations, but will grow to include other underserved populations in the region. Our innovative initial core projects, defined by the tribal communities in which they will be conducted, are focused on disability prevention related to vision and hearing loss---new areas for community-based prevention research. The goals of our center include: 1) develop sustainable collaborative partnerships withcommunity-based, voluntary, and governmental organizations; 2) build research capacity for chronic disease prevention among all partners through training programs, mentoring, and provision of technical assistance; 3) conduct high quality, community-driven prevention research that will translate into policy or practice in the target communities;4) establish our Center as a regional resource for public health research; 5) foster population health sciences and prevention sciences within OHSU as a major research agenda through offering seminars, lectures, and conferences focused on community health; and 6) reduce the disease burden due to specific chronic diseases that the communities have identified as priorities for prevention research. Our many interested community partners, our strong research and training track record with underserved populations, and our depth and breadth of research collaborators and public health partners-including Lions Club Sight and Hearing Foundation--will help to ensure the success of our Center in reaching its goals.