Community-Academic Linkages to Build a National Network for Farmworker Research

描述（由申请人提供）：西班牙裔农场工人及其家庭因工作和有限的个人资源而遭受不成比例的伤害和疾病。在接下来的两年里，我们打算在现有社区和移民健康中心联盟的基础上建立一个可持续的国家农场工人研究网络，该联盟由国家农场工人健康中心与德克萨斯大学公共卫生和巴特尔学院联合组织。这种互惠和公平的社区和学术伙伴关系将建立必要的基础设施，以连接来自诊所联盟的电子医疗记录，以建立国家农场工人临床研究数据库。这项工作以及所有相关的未来研究将由相互参与的合作伙伴通过国家指导委员会和国家咨询委员会进行指导，这些合作伙伴包括农场工人、卫生保健提供者、社区和移民卫生组织以及学术研究人员。这一网络将通过利用现有资源，包括社区和移民保健中心，以及由联邦政府资助的学术保健中心的长期研究和培训中心来维持。该网络还将得到联邦机构未来的研究资助机会的支持，这些机构在其愿景和目标中优先考虑了对农场工人研究的需求；目前的研究议程是改善健康结果，减少健康差距，增加服务不足人群获得卫生保健的机会。我们还致力于开展互惠的研究培训，包括为学术合作伙伴提供基于社区的参与性研究培训，并为社区合作伙伴提供开展研究的培训。我们的社区-学术伙伴关系的目标是创造以前无法实现的相关研究机会，将重点放在职业接触和不利健康后果上，以了解和促进处于危险中的往往是流动的农场工人人口的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hispanic farmworkers and their families suffer a disproportionate number of injuries and illnesses associated with their work and limited personal resources. Over the next two years, we intend to establish a sustainable national farmworker research network based upon a consortium of existing Community and Migrant Health Centers, organized by the National Center for Farmworker Health in conjunction with The University of Texas School of Public Health and Battelle. This reciprocal and equitable community and academic partnership will build the necessary infrastructure for a linkage of electronic medical records from a consortium of clinics to build a National Farmworker Clinical Research Database. This effort, and all associated future research, will be guided by mutually engaged partners through a National Steering Committee and National Advisory Committee, including farmworkers, healthcare providers, community and migrant health organizations, and academic researchers. This network will be sustained by leveraging established resources, including community and migrant health centers, and long-term federally funded research and training centers in academic health centers. The network will also be supported by future research funding opportunities from federal agencies that have prioritized the need for farmworker research in their vision and goals; and current research agendas to improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities, and increase access to health care for underserved populations. We also aim to conduct reciprocal research training that involves community- based participatory research training for academic partners and training in the conduct of research for community partners. The goal of our community-academic partnership is to create previously unattainable and relevant research opportunities that will focus on occupational exposures and adverse health outcomes to understand and promote the health of the at-risk and often mobile farmworker population. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Community and Migrant Health Centers in the US serve as the primary source of medical, dental, and mental health care to 20 million mainly low income and medically underserved patients, including nearly one million migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Farmworkers suffer a disproportionate number of injuries and illnesses associated with their work. A community- university team will develop a stable partnership to link medical records from a group of Community and Migrant Health Centers to build a National Farmworker Clinical Research Database with the goal to study and promote the health of farmworkers.