Developing Health Services Research at TSU and MMC

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请旨在将两所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的少数民族研究基础设施支持计划（M-RISP）续期五年，即田纳西州立大学（TSU）和梅哈里医学院（MMC）。这项更新申请的目标是进一步加强托国立大学和MMC的研究基础设施，并加强新的个人调查员在医疗保健质量和差异领域进行高质量卫生服务研究的能力。拟议的方案以过去三年取得的进展为基础，扩大了M-RISP活动，以便更有效地培训和指导初级研究人员发表研究成果，并在医疗保健质量和服务领域竞争独立研究补助金。在续期（第2周期）期间拟议的活动将进一步发展联合国大学通过传统供资机制竞争研究者发起的校外研究支助的能力。拟议的M-RISP在第2周期（自最初的第1周期申请以来已进行了修改）期间的具体目标是：1)建立一个管理结构，以支持托国立和MMC的协作医疗质量研究；2)为与中心有关的初级教师和学生制定结构化的卫生服务研究支持和培训计划（包括实质性卫生服务主题，如研究设计、数据收集、数据分析、撰写手稿和撰写拨款申请）；3)提供和扩展托国立卫生研究中心现有的数据库，供初级研究人员使用，以开展研究项目和开发新的可获资助的研究应用；4)在田纳西州中部为医疗保健研究人员和服务提供者举行为期一天的会议，以促进和传播AHRQ M-RISP项目和其他机构资助的旨在消除健康方面种族和民族差异的项目的研究结果；并确保研究发展与消除健康方面的种族和民族差异的目标相关联。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY THE APPLICANT): This application seeks to renew for five years the Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP) at two historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), namely Tennessee State University (TSU) and Meharry Medical College (MMC). The goal of this renewal application is to enhance further the research infrastructure at TSU and MMC and to strengthen the capacity of new individual investigators to conduct high-quality, health services research in the area of healthcare quality and disparities. The proposed program builds on the progress made during the past three years and expands the M-RISP activities to more effectively train and mentor junior investigators to publish research and to compete for independent research grants in the area of healthcare quality and services. The proposed activities during the renewal period (Cycle 2) will further develop the University's ability to compete for investigator-initiated extramural research support through traditional funding mechanisms. The specific aims of the proposed M-RISP during Cycle 2 (which have been modified since the original Cycle 1 application) are to: 1) Develop an administrative structure to support collaborative healthcare quality research at TSU and MMC; 2) Institute a structured program of research support and training in health services research for junior faculty and for students associated with the Center (including substantive health services topics, such as research design, data collection, data analysis, writing manuscripts, and writing grant applications); 3) Provide and expand existing databases at TSU's Center for Health Research for use by junior investigators to conduct research projects and to develop new fundable research applications; 4) Hold a one-day conference for healthcare researchers and service providers in Middle Tennessee to promote and disseminate findings from the AHRQ M-RISP project and from other agency-funded projects aimed at eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health; and to ensure the relevance of research development to the goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health.