Expanding Infrastructure for Community-Academic Research Partnerships in Detroit

描述（由申请人提供）：有广泛的研究证据表明，社会和物理环境中的压力源与不良健康结果有关，这些条件导致民族、种族和社会经济健康差异。继续需要进行综合健康差异的多个层面（例如生物医学、社会、行为）的研究，并采用不同的方法和概念方法来评估和监测这些差异。这种研究的目的是传播研究结果并将其转化为实践，以减少并最终消除这些差异。人们日益认识到，学术保健中心和社区实体（如社区组织、地方卫生部门）之间需要建立双向关系，以便开展合作研究，改善公共卫生。此外，社区实体和学术机构需要加强在这些研究伙伴关系中实现公平的能力。为了实现这些目标，必须发展和扩大可持续的基础设施，从根本上改变地方社区和学术保健中心之间的交流和合作。拟议的项目“扩大底特律社区-学术研究伙伴关系的基础设施”将由底特律社区-学术城市研究中心（URC）促进，这是一项长期的双向努力，与它的三个附属伙伴关系：社区防治哮喘行动（CAAA）、健康环境伙伴关系（HEP）和底特律REACH伙伴关系（REACH）合作。为了响应底特律相关社区的需求，CAAA、HEP和REACH分别积极参与研究和解决哮喘、心血管疾病和糖尿病的生物、社会和物理环境决定因素。在过去5年中，底特律URC没有获得必要的核心基础设施支持，以建立新的生产性和可持续的社区学术研究伙伴关系，扩大开展与所涉及社区有关的研究的努力，并以最大限度地影响健康差距的方式传播研究结果。因此，拟议项目的总体目标是扩大和重新配置底特律城市中心的基础设施，以促进学术界和社区实体之间新的、公平的合作关系，增强其开展和传播健康差异研究的能力，从而改善底特律居民的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is extensive research evidence that stressors in the social and physical environment are associated with poor health outcomes, and that these conditions contribute to ethnic, racial and socioeconomic health disparities. There is a continuing need for research that integrates multiple dimensions of health disparities (e.g., biomedical, social, behavioral), and that applies different methodological and conceptual approaches to assessing and monitoring them. The aim of such research is to disseminate and translate findings into practice to reduce and ultimately eliminate these disparities. There is growing recognition that bi-directional relationships between academic health centers and community entities (e.g., community-based organizations, local health departments) are needed to engage in collaborative research to improve public health. In addition, community entities and academic institutions need enhanced capacity to achieve equity in these research partnerships. To achieve these ends, sustainable infrastructures that fundamentally transform communication and collaboration between local communities and academic health centers must be developed and expanded. The proposed project "Expanding Infrastructure for Community-Academic Research Partnerships in Detroit," will be facilitated by the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (URC), a long-standing bi- directional effort, in collaboration with three of its affiliated partnerships: Community Action against Asthma (CAAA), the Healthy Environments Partnership (HEP), and the REACH Detroit Partnership (REACH). In response to the needs identified by the Detroit communities involved, CAAA, HEP, and REACH have been actively engaged in studying and addressing the biological, social and physical environmental determinants of asthma, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, respectively. For the past 5 years the Detroit URC has not had the core infrastructure support needed to establish new productive and sustainable community-academic research partnerships to expand efforts to conduct research relevant to the communities involved, and to disseminate findings in a way that maximizes impact on health disparities. Thus, the overarching goal of the proposed project is to expand and reconfigure the infrastructure of the Detroit URC in order to facilitate new, equitable collaborative relationships between academic and community entities and enhance their capacity to conduct and disseminate health disparities research, and thereby improve the health of residents of Detroit. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: There is extensive research evidence that numerous factors in the social and physical environment (e.g., biomedical, social, behavioral) are associated with poor health outcomes and that these contribute to ethnic, racial and socioeconomic health disparities. There is also growing recognition that bi-directional relationships between academic health centers and community entities (e.g., community-based organizations, local health departments) are needed to engage in collaborative research to examine and address these health disparities. In order to achieve these ends, sustainable infrastructures that fundamentally transform communication and collaboration between local communities and academic health centers must be developed and expanded. Thus, the overarching goal of the "Expanding Infrastructure for Community-Academic Research Partnerships in Detroit," is to expand and reconfigure the infrastructure of the Detroit Urban Research Center in order to facilitate new, equitable collaborative relationships between academic and community entities and enhance their capacity to conduct and disseminate health disparities research, and thereby improve the health of citizens of Detroit.