Core--Community Action Core

CHUM社区行动核心将致力于帮助研究人员和社区领导人以协作方式开展工作，以制定和维持旨在减少北方曼哈顿（NM）社区少数民族健康差距的举措。 CAC将在很大程度上通过以下方式实现这一目标：（1）建立一个由社区组织领导人和学术研究人员组成的跨学科规划理事会，他们将共同制定、评估和修改以社区为基础的健康促进/疾病预防方案的方法;（2）培训公共健康促进专家。公共卫生的公共卫生硕士课程的邮差学校的这些毕业生将在社区机构工作，但也将向核心的公共卫生促进专家计划的关键人员报告。PHPS将在机构和学术环境之间进行调解，协助机构实现健康促进和信息传播目标，并让他们了解研究人员的关切，同时向研究人员通报机构和社区的关切和利益。的 PHPS实际上将构成推进社区参与性研究的关键机制。(3)增加社区合作伙伴和学术研究人员之间双向，有意义和相互尊重的沟通机会。 从实质上讲，社区行动核心将致力于三个目标：（1）鼓励社区参与临床研究，并使社区具备参与循证疾病预防和干预活动的能力;（2）开发和传播与CHUM研究直接相关的具有文化敏感性的健康信息，或以具有文化敏感性的方式提供的一般健康信息;及（3）赞助地区初中及/或高中的科学教育外展活动。

The CHUM Community Action Core will pursue the goal of helping researchers and community leaders to work in a collaborative fashion to develop and sustain initiatives designed to reduce minority health disparities in the northern Manhattan (NM) community. The CAC will achieve this goal in considerable part by (1) developing an interdisciplinary Planning Council of leaders of CBOs and academic researchers, who will collectively develop, evaluate and modify approaches to community-based health promotion/disease prevention programming (2) training public health promotion specialists (PHPSs). These graduates of the Mailman School of Public Health's MPH program will work in community agencies but will also report to key personnel of the Core's Public Health Promotion Specialist program. The PHPSs will mediate between the agency and academic settings, assisting the agencies in fulfilling health promotion and information dissemination goals and giving them understanding of researchers' concerns while informing researchers of agency and community concerns and interests. The PHPSs will in effect constitute a key mechanism for advancing toward community participatory research. (3) enhance opportunities for bi-directional, meaningful, and respectful communication between community partners and academic researchers. Substantively, the Community Action Core will address three goals: (1) encouraging and equipping the community for potential participation in clinical studies and for partnering in the conduct of evidence-based disease prevention and intervention activities; (2) developing and disseminating culturally sensitive health information directly related to the research of CHUM or general health information presented in a culturally sensitive manner; and (3) sponsoring science education outreach activities in area middle and/or high schools.