RIMI-CSULB

描述(由申请人提供)：鉴于其地理位置、多样化的学生群体、与社区组织密切的合作历史以及其资深和初出茅庐的教师的研究专长和兴趣，加州州立大学长滩分校(CSULB)处于独特的地位，能够为减少和消除健康差距的国家努力做出显著贡献。在CSULB的优势、教师研究努力和基础设施的基础上，拟议的RIMI项目将解决在开展关于健康差距和少数群体健康促进的研究以及培训对这些主题感兴趣的教师和学生方面的差距和挑战。拟议的RIMI项目将由四个核心组成：行政和能力建设核心、研究学院发展核心(在该核心下有三个教职子项目)、学生学术充实核心和共享资源核心。重点将放在社区和公共卫生方面，以缩小差距。整个研究能力建设计划的具体目标是：1)创建一个由科学家和管理人员组成的咨询委员会，他们将为项目提供战略指导，并创建一个社区咨询委员会，确保纳入社区和研究人员的观点；2)创建一个健康差距研究中心，将促进少数群体健康和健康差距的研究和培训；3)提供基于最佳实践的指导和培训，以增加教师研究和成功的外部资金申请，以健康差异和少数群体健康主题；4)为教师研究员提供资金和释放时间，以进行研究和制定强有力的研究计划；5)为来自代表性不足群体的研究生提供培训和研究经验，以提高对健康差距和少数群体健康主题的博士水平研究的兴趣和准备；以及5)为CSULB学生和对健康差距研究感兴趣的教师开发一套共享资源，其中将包括提案和手动准备支持、数据收集、输入和分析资源、包括网站和网络通信和研讨会的在线社区，以及位于长滩市中心的增强的社区外联设施。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by the Applicant): Given its geographic placement, diverse student body, strong collaborative history with community-based organizations, and its senior and budding faculty research expertise and interests, California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is uniquely positioned to make noteworthy contributions to the national efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities. Building on CSULB's strengths, faculty research efforts and infrastructure, the proposed RIMI project will address gaps and challenges to conducting research on health disparities and minority health promotion, and training of faculty and students interested In these topics. The proposed RIMI project will consist of four Cores: the Administrative and Capacity Building Core, the Research Faculty Development Core (under which three faculty subprojects fall), the Academic Enrichment for Students Core, and the Shared Resources Core. The focus will be community and public health approaches to reducing disparities. The specific aims of the overall research capacity building plan are to: 1) Create an Advisory Committee composed of scientists and administrators who will provide strategic direction to the project, and create a Community Advisory Board that will insure incorporation of a community and researcher perspective; 2) Create a Health Disparities Research Center that will promote minority health and health disparities research and training; 3) Provide mentorship and training based on best practices to increase faculty research and successful extramural funding requests in health disparities and minority health topics; 4) Provide funding and release time for faculty fellows to conduct research and develop a robust research program; 5) Provide training and research experience for graduate students from underrepresented groups to increase interest and readiness for doctoral-level research in health disparities and minority health topics; and 5) Develop a set of shared resources for CSULB students and faculty interested in health disparities research that would include proposal and manual preparation support, data collection, entry, and analysis resources, an online community including website and web-enabled communication and seminars, and an enhanced community outreach facility in downtown Long Beach.