Developmental Infrastructure for Population Research

描述(由申请人提供)：芬威社区卫生(FCH)芬威研究所(TFI)与波士顿大学公共卫生学院(BUSPH)和大学间政治和社会研究联盟(ICPSR)合作，根据PAR-06-362申请R21发展基础设施资金。我们的申请符合1999年人口和行为科学处审查的建议，承认有必要鼓励尖端研究、地理上分散的研究人员的生存能力以及较小的人口研究中心，以填补关键的研究空白，如不同人口的健康状况。FCH成立于35年前，旨在为社区居民提供医疗保健，无论其支付来源如何，并响应新承认的性少数和性别少数与健康相关的需求。芬威是新英格兰第一个开发艾滋病毒/艾滋病服务的社区临床网站，自1984年以来一直是100多项艾滋病毒研究的网站。FCH于2000年创建了TFI，成为全国女同性恋者、男同性恋者、双性恋者和变性人(LGBT)健康方面的卓越中心，任命发起艾滋病研究计划的医生/临床研究人员和一名在新兴的LGBT健康国家计划中发挥重要作用的社会科学家为联席主席。永久任命由6名活跃的科学家和5名来自主要大学的资深科学家担任，他们每周有一部分时间在TFI工作，他们合作进行研究。人口研究方法越来越多地被使用；拥有长期任命的科学家都有将这些方法应用于LGBT健康研究的经验。有了NICHD发展基础设施的支持，我们可以巩固支持R24人口研究中心成为全国LGBT健康科学卓越中心的能力。我们的5年发展资金目标是在ICPSR建立一个公共访问的研究数据档案，在北卡罗来纳大学建立一个培训博士后和博士后的管道项目，并提供一个专门的空间，提供有效的管理、通信和计算支持，作为LGBT健康领域领先科学家的社区研究之家。我们的三个标志性领域是关于艾滋病毒性传播的行为研究，对LGBT家庭和家庭的研究，以及LGBT健康、发病率、残疾和死亡率的人口统计学方面的研究。研究表明，性少数群体和性别少数群体具有更高的危及生命的身心健康状况，在获得保健方面遇到障碍，并面临对生活质量的重大威胁。我们将进行这项研究，以填补关键的知识空白，为具有文化能力的治疗和行为改变模式提供基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Fenway Institute (TFI) of Fenway Community Health (FCH), collaborating with the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), requests R21 developmental infrastructure funding in response to PAR-06-362. Our application addresses recommendations from a 1999 Demographic and Behavioral Science Branch review acknowledging the need to encourage cutting-edge research, the viability of geographically dispersed researchers, and smaller population research centers to fill critical research gaps such as the health of disparities populations. FCH was established 35 years ago to provide health care to neighborhood residents regardless of payment source and to respond to the newly acknowledged health-related needs of sexual and gender minorities. Fenway was the first community-based clinical site in New England to develop HIV/AIDS services and has been a site for more than 100 HIV research studies since 1984. FCH created TFI in 2000 to become a national center of excellence in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health, naming as Co-Chairs the physician/clinical researcher who initiated the AIDS research program and a social scientist instrumental in the emerging national program for LGBT health. Permanent appointments are held by six active scientists who are resident at TFI for a portion of each week and 5 senior scientists from major universities who collaborate on studies. Population research methods are increasingly employed; scientists with permanent appointments all have experience adapting these methods to the study of LGBT health. With NICHD developmental infrastructure support, we can solidify the capacity to support an R24 population research center as a national center of excellence in LGBT health science. Our goals for the 5 years of developmental funding are to establish a public access research data archive at ICPSR, build a pipeline program at the BUSPH to train pre- and post-doctoral students, and provide a dedicated space with effective administrative, communications, and computing support as a community-based research home for leading scientists in the field of LGBT health. Our three signature areas are behavioral research on the sexual transmission of HIV, research on LGBT families and households, and demographic aspects of LGBT health, morbidity, disability, and mortality. Studies have shown that sexual and gender minorities have higher prevalence of life-threatening physical and mental health conditions, experience barriers to health care access, and face substantial threats to quality of life. We will conduct the research to fill critical knowledge gaps, providing a foundation for culturally competent treatment and behavior change models.