Building Capacity for Health Disparities Research

描述（由申请人提供）：州长州立大学打算加强与伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）的合作，在通过R24 EXPORT健康差异研究卓越中心所做的工作的基础上，建立一个医疗保健研究中心，并加强少数民族服务机构的健康差异研究基础设施和能力。UIC将作为医疗保健研究中心的指导机构，作为少数民族服务机构研究基础设施倡议的一部分。通过UIC人口健康和健康差异中心协调的指导活动将涉及来自牙科学院，联合健康学院物理治疗系，中西部拉丁裔健康研究培训和政策中心，简亚当斯社会工作学院，文科学院社会学系以及城市规划和公共事务学院种族和公共政策研究所的教师。公共卫生学院的一名教员也将担任该项目的生物统计顾问。在项目的后期，计划与护理学院的教师进行额外的指导。该项目有六个目标：1)创造一个有效的研究环境，在GSU各学院之间共享；2)培养教师进行高水平的生物医学及相关研究；3)为学生参加高级研究生课程，获得专业和研究型博士学位做好准备；4)实施教师职业发展规划；5)实施和完成教师个人研究项目，作为减少健康差距的独立资助研究的基础；6)通过有效的行政管理和项目管理，建设高质量的医疗保健研究中心。该项目还将提供资源，丰富GSU的物理研究空间，并提供专门的教师研究设备。在GSU建立一个专注于减少健康差异的医疗保健研究中心将有利于芝加哥南部地区。作为本应用程序一部分的研究项目侧重于影响该地区非裔美国人、西班牙裔/拉丁裔和美洲原住民人口的主要卫生保健问题。此外，许多将获得能力的调查人员本身就是经历健康差距的人口的一部分。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Governors State University intends to increase its collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to develop a Center for Healthcare Research, building upon the work done through an R24 EXPORT Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research and enhancing the infrastructure and capacity for health disparities research at a minority serving institution. UIC will serve as the mentoring institution for the Center for Healthcare Research as a part of the Research Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions initiative. The mentoring activities, coordinated through the UIC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities will involve faculty from the College of Dentistry, Department of Physical Therapy in the College of Allied Health, the Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center, Jane Addams College of Social Work, the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. A member of the faculty in the School of Public Health will also serve as a biostatistical consultant to the project. Additional mentoring with faculty from the College of Nursing is planned for later in the project. There are six goals of the project: 1) Create an effective research environment that is shared across GSU colleges; 2) Prepare faculty to conduct high-level biomedical and related research; 3) Prepare students to enroll in advanced graduate programs to earn professional and research doctoral degrees; 4) Implement career development plans for faculty; 5) Implement and complete the individual faculty research projects as a foundation to independent funded research related to reducing health disparities ; and 6) Develop a quality Center for Healthcare Research through effective administration and project management. The project will also provide the resources to enrich the physical research space at GSU and provide specialized faculty research equipment. Creation of a Center for Healthcare Research at GSU focused on reducing health disparities will benefit the Chicago Southland region. Research projects as a part of this application focus on major health care issues affecting the African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Native American populations in the region. Furthermore, many of the investigators who will gain competency are themselves a part of the populations experiencing health disparities.