Establishing an Academic-Community Partnership to Promote Child Health in Boston

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议建立儿童医院波士顿社区健康研究合作中心（“中心”），该中心将建立参与式社区学术研究伙伴关系，以提高儿童健康研究和社区研究能力。使用基于社区的参与式研究（CBPR）的原则，该中心将汇集社区从业人员和学术研究人员在波士顿的合作伙伴关系，有可能改变复杂的公共卫生问题和种族/民族差异的方式在研究和公共卫生实践中得到解决。该中心的基础将是波士顿儿童健康和教育的四个基石之间的伙伴关系，它们具有有效合作的历史：波士顿儿童医院/哈佛大学、波士顿公共卫生委员会（公共卫生部门）、波士顿公立学校和马萨诸塞州社区卫生中心联盟波士顿会议。该中心将由波士顿儿童医院的一名主任（兼主要研究者）和波士顿公共卫生委员会的一名社区研究助理（CRA）共同管理。它将被组织成3个核心-研究，教育和discrimination-其中每一个将由来自社区和波士顿儿童医院的代表共同领导。我们将首先关注波士顿儿童医院2009年11月进行的系统社区需求评估中出现的四个儿童健康主题：（a）哮喘，（B）心理健康，（c）肥胖，（d）意外怀孕和艾滋病毒/性传播感染。该中心的具体目标是：（1）建立基础设施，以开展杰出的社区合作研究，利用一系列学科和方法来研究与波士顿儿童的健康和医疗保健需求有关的问题（0-18岁）和家庭;（2）设计教育策略，以培训新一代的学术和社区成员，使他们掌握社区合作研究的原则和技能;以及（3）促进向利益相关者传播研究成果，并开发有利于社区合作伙伴、大波士顿社区及其他地区的产品。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的项目旨在创建一个可持续的社区参与式研究（CBPR）中心，汇集了波士顿社区代表和波士顿儿童医院/哈佛大学的教师和学生。我们寻求成为一个值得信赖和尊重的卓越中心，进行严格的社区合作研究，改善波士顿儿童和家庭的健康和福祉，并成为社区学术合作伙伴关系的国家典范。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to establish the Children's Hospital Boston Collaborative Center for Community Health Research (the "Center"), which will build participatory community-academic research partnerships to improve child health research and community research capacity. Using principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR), the Center will bring together community practitioners and academic researchers in Boston in a partnership that has the potential to transform the way complex public health issues and racial/ethnic disparities are addressed in both research and public health practice. The foundation of the Center will be a partnership among 4 cornerstones of children's health and education in Boston that have a history of effective collaboration: Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard University, the Boston Public Health Commission (the public health department), the Boston Public Schools, and the Boston Conference of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. The Center will be run collaboratively by a Director (and Principal Investigator) from Children's Hospital Boston, and a Community Research Associate (CRA) from the Boston Public Health Commission. It will be organized into 3 cores-Research, Education, and Dissemination-each of which will be co-led by a representative from the community and from Children's Hospital Boston. We will initially focus on four child health topics that emerged in a systematic community needs assessment conducted by Children's Hospital Boston in November, 2009: (a) asthma, (b) mental health, (c) obesity, and (d) unintended pregnancy and HIV/STIs. The specific aims of the Center are to: (1) build infrastructure to conduct outstanding community-partnered research that draws on a range of disciplines and methodologies to study issues related to the health and health care needs of Boston's children (0-18-years-old) and families; (2) design education strategies to train a new generation of academic and community members in principles of and skills for community-partnered research; and (3) promote dissemination of research findings to stakeholders and develop products that will benefit community partners, the greater Boston community, and beyond. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project aims to create a sustainable community-based participatory research (CBPR) center that brings together Boston community representatives and Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard University faculty and students. We seek to become a trusted and respected center of excellence for rigorous community- partnered research that improves the health and well-being of Boston's children and families and serves as a national model for community-academic partnerships.