The Grady Center for Health Disparities

描述(由申请者提供)：莫尔豪斯医学院和克拉克亚特兰大大学(两所历史上都是黑人学位授予机构)和格雷迪健康系统公司与埃默里大学一起寻求资金，通过发展“格雷迪健康差距中心”来加强现有的合作伙伴关系。该中心建议通过一个具有无与伦比的专业知识和资源的综合研究、培训和推广中心，直接解决健康差距问题。格雷迪卫生系统服务的人群以及亚特兰大社区尤其受到这些差异的打击。我们的主要目标是开发格雷迪的资源，使其提升为全国公认的健康差距研究中心。该中心的项目将设在格雷迪纪念医院，位于新开发的佐治亚州癌症卓越中心内。虽然我们的许多项目关注的是癌症，但我们相信，吸取的经验教训将转化为其他疾病。对亚特兰大黑人的健康差距进行学术调查是非常有必要的。格鲁吉亚黑人的艾滋病毒死亡率是白人的七倍多。虽然美国黑人在八种主要癌症类型上的死亡率高于美国白人，但NCI的监测数据显示，亚特兰大黑人的死亡率比美国黑人高4.20%至40.35%。这一数据要求建立格雷迪健康差异中心，致力于研究这些差异的根本原因以及将改善结果和减少差异的干预措施。这项提议将重点放在已经得到资助的现有少数群体健康活动上，利用现有资源并扩大一些长期从事少数群体健康服务的著名机构之间的现有合作。该中心的主要目标包括1)在格雷迪建立一个临床研究中心；2)资助研究之间的合作，以衍生缩小健康差距的新想法；3)通过关于健康差距的试点研究，培养新的想法和少数族裔研究人员；4)通过外展活动教育大众；5)培训少数族裔教员和博士后，以培训健康差距；6)培训少数族裔本科生和研究生生物医学科学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Morehouse School of Medicine and Clark Atlanta University (both historically Black degree-granting institutions), and Grady Health System join Emory University in seeking funding to strengthen existing partnerships through the development of "The Grady Center for Health Disparities." This Center proposes to directly address health disparities through a comprehensive center for research, training, and outreach with unparalleled expertise and resources. The population served by Grady Health System, as well as the Atlanta community, is particularly stricken by these disparities. It is our primary objective to develop resources at Grady such that it is elevated to a nationally recognized center of health disparities research. The Center's programs will be located at Grady Memorial Hospital within the newly developed Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence. While many of our project focus on cancer, we believe lessons learned will translate to other diseases. There is profound need for academic investigation of health disparity for blacks in Atlanta. The HIV death rate among Black Georgians is more than seven times higher than that of white Georgians. While Black Americans have higher death rates than white Americans in eight major cancer types, NCI surveillance data shows that Black Atlantans have a death rate 4.20% to 40.35% higher than black Americans. This data mandates the establishment of the Grady Center for Health Disparities, devoted to the study of root causes for these disparities and interventions that will improve outcomes and reduce disparities. This proposal brings focus to existing already funded minority health activities, leverages current resources and expands existing collaborations between some distinguished institutions with long records of service in minority health. The major aims of this center include 1) the development of a clinical investigation center at Grady; 2) the collaboration between funded research to spin off new ideas in reducing health disparities; 3) nurturing new ideas and minority investigators through pilot studies in health disparities; 4) educating the populace through outreach activities; 5) training of minority faculty and post-doctorates to train in health disparities; 6) training of minority undergraduate and graduate students in the biomedical sciences.