Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity and Health Disparities Research

描述（由申请人提供）：在马里兰州大学公园（UMCP）的种族，民族和健康差异研究卓越中心的目的是成为一个充满活力的贡献者马里兰州的重新授权的土地授予使命，其中包括消除种族和民族差异，实现健康公平的承诺大学。我们的目标是：1）建立和维持一个社区参与的研究企业，研究关键的健康差距，2）提高种族和民族健康差距的可见度，并与马里兰州人承诺解决方案，3）促进采取行动，改变结构性决定因素， 健康在马里兰州。为了实现这些目标，我们的卓越中心有以下目标：1.提高少数群体社区参与生物医学和公共卫生研究，包括临床试验的能力和意愿;（所有核心）; 2.制定科学合理的和文化相关的，以社区为基础的干预措施，旨在消除健康差距，特别注重减少心脏代谢风险因素（肥胖，糖尿病，高血压，血脂异常）经历了马里兰州的少数民族社区（研究核心）; 3.开展研究，以加深我们对现有和新的免疫接种接受差异的因素的理解，这些免疫接种旨在预防新出现的疫苗可预防疾病，并将这些结果转化为减少这种差异的宣传包（研究核心）; 4.开发，实施和评估培训计划，重点是使研究人员能够成功地参与少数民族社区，整合公共卫生关键种族实践，并利用第四代研究来实现健康公平（研究培训和教育核心）; 5.发起健康教育和健康促进倡议，其特点是社区参与基层和全州其他合作伙伴（社区参与和外展核心）;建立影响政策制定的能力，解决该州健康的结构性决定因素（社区参与和外展核心）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity and Health Disparities Research at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) is designed to be a vibrant contributor to the University of Maryland's re-invigorated land grant mission, which includes a commitment to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities and achieve health equity. Our goals are: 1) to establish and sustain a community engaged research enterprise on critical health disparities, 2) to raise the visibility of racial and ethnic health disparities and promisin solutions with Marylanders and 3) to facilitate action for change in the structural determinants of health in Maryland. To accomplish these goals, our Center of Excellence has the following objectives: 1. Increase the capacity and willingness of minority communities to participate in biomedical and public health research, including clinical trials; (All cores); 2. Develop scientifically sound and culturally relevant, community based interventions designed to eliminate health disparities with a particular focus on reduction of cardiometabolic risk factors (obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipdeima) experienced by Maryland's minority communities (Research Core); 3. Conduct research to deepen our understanding of the factors shaping disparities in acceptance of existing and new immunizations designed to prevent emerging vaccine preventable diseases and translate those results into communication packages that will reduce such disparities (Research Core); 4. Develop, implement and evaluate training programs focused on enabling researchers to successfully engage minority communities, integrate Public Health Critical Race Praxis and utilize Fourth Generation Research to achieve health equity (Research Training & Education Core); 5. Initiate a health education and health promotion initiative, characterized by community engagement with grassroots and other partners throughout the state (Community Engagement and Outreach Core); 6. Build capacity to influence policy making that addresses the structural determinants of health in the state (Community Engagement and Outreach Core).