Creation of an Hispanic Health Research Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

描述（由申请人提供）：在下格兰德河山谷创建西班牙裔健康研究中心。少数群体的健康差距有两个方面。第一，少数群体患多种疾病的频率较高，第二，他们在自己的人口中研究和解决这些疾病的训练有素的人员较少。在美国，这一点最适用于德克萨斯州南部的下格兰德河河谷。该提案通过与德克萨斯州南部以西班牙裔为主（85%）的边境地区的两个机构合作，解决了健康差距的两个方面：即德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院布朗斯维尔区域校区和德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔/德克萨斯州最南端学院。这种伙伴关系还将利用德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院和德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心的专业知识和资源。在美国没有一个专门研究西班牙裔美国人健康的中心。该提案的目的是在一个以西班牙裔为主的社区的现有学术机构内建立这样一个西班牙裔健康研究中心，旨在解决这个贫穷、教育程度低和医疗服务不足的西班牙裔人口的疾病负担和研究能力不足的问题。西班牙裔健康研究中心的活动将包括对西班牙裔健康差距的研究，提供西班牙裔健康的数据来源，制定和评估西班牙裔文化的干预策略，与其他西班牙裔社区开展研究合作，并建立南德克萨斯州LRGV的研究能力。我们建议开发九个核心，其中三个是研究核心，项目涉及南德克萨斯州西班牙裔人口的主要杀手，糖尿病，心血管疾病和癌症的具体方面。赠款将集中在布朗斯维尔，在相邻的，新建的建筑物的两个合作机构在他们的共同校园，共享网络和视频设施，图书馆服务，实验室和其他资源。长期目标是提高两个合作机构的个人申请研究资金的能力，并在两个机构和休斯顿的合作机构之间建立牢固的科学和学术关系。两个西班牙裔人口和高等教育机构试图在LRGV为他们服务，符合项目出口的每一个种族，经济，地理和科学标准。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Creation of a Hispanic Health Research Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. There are two disabling dimensions to Health Disparities in minorities. The first is that minorities have higher frequencies of many diseases, and the second that they have fewer trained people to research and address those diseases within their own populations. Nowhere in the US does this apply more than to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. This proposal addresses both dimensions of health disparity by partnering two institutions in a predominantly (85%) Hispanic border region of South Texas: that is, the, Regional Campus at Brownsville of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. This partnership will also draw on expertise and resources of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. Nowhere in the US is there a center dedicated specifically to research on the health of Hispanic Americans. The purpose of this proposal is to create such a Hispanic Health Research Center within the existing academic institutions of a predominantly Hispanic community, designed to address the disease burdens and the paucity of research capacity in this poor, undereducated and medically underserved Hispanic population. The activities of the Hispanic Health Research Center will encompass research on health disparities in Hispanics, provide a source of data on Hispanic health, develop and evaluate intervention strategies for Hispanic cultures, evolve research collaborations with other Hispanic communities, and build research capacity in South Texas LRGV. We propose to develop nine cores, of which three are research cores with projects addressing specific aspects of the major killers of the Hispanic population of South Texas, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The grant will be centered in Brownsville, in the adjacent, newly constructed buildings of the two partnering institutions on their common campus, sharing web and video facilities, library services, laboratories and other resources. The long-term goals are to enhance the ability of individuals from both partnering institutions to apply for research funding, and to create a strong scientific and academic relationship between the two institutions and the collaborating institutions in Houston. The two Hispanic population and the higher educational institutions attempting to serve them in the LRGV fit every ethnic, economic, geographic and scientific criteria of Project EXPORT.