NM Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement & Science on Health Disparities

新墨西哥州大学（UNM）提出了一个创新的卓越中心，名为新墨西哥州 健康差异研究、参与和科学促进中心（Center for Advancement of Research，Engagement & Science on Health Disparities，NM CARES HD） 根据对各土著社区健康差异的共同原因的了解，北地中海 CARES HD将应用一个概念模型，强调干预措施中的三项原则，以消除这些问题 差异：1）通过社区参与性研究建立社区伙伴关系; 2）多因素， 文化和社会背景下的多层次干预;以及，3）将基于证据的 基于社区的实践。NM CARES HD将建立在一套强大的既定基础上， 合作机构计划，在几个关键领域的国家认可的专业知识，长期 与美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区的富有成效的伙伴关系，以及多元化的跨学科 共同努力实现其总体目标。这个目标是建立一个充满活力、自我维持的研究中心 促进关于健康差距的干预措施和解决方案的科学知识基础， 美国西南部原住民和西班牙裔社区。一个强大的研究团队，由高级，NIH资助 领导层已经走到一起，以满足NM CARES HD的具体目标。行政核心， 研究核心，研究培训和教育核心，以及社区参与核心 两个研究项目将是NMCOE的初始组成，它致力于满足一系列 具体目标和次级目标。这些目标是：1。建立多学科研究中心， 科学的干预措施，以消除健康之间的差距西南美洲原住民和 西班牙裔社区; 2。提高UNM研究人员竞争NIH个人，独立性相关的能力 研究赠款; 3.建立伙伴关系，致力于研究健康差距， 调查人员和社区居民在美洲原住民和西班牙裔社区。应对这些 NM CARES HD将开发创新的结构和资源，以支持研究的扩展 采取干预措施，消除这些社区的不平等。综合资源和机构 新教员的承诺、试点项目和全国会议的支持使成功的可能性很大。

The University of New Mexico (UNM) proposes an innovative Center of Excellence titled the New Mexico Center for Advancement of Research, Engagement & Science on Health Disparities, or NM CARES HD. Based on an understanding of the common causes of health disparities across indigenous communities, NM CARES HD will apply a conceptual model that stresses three principles in interventions to eliminate those disparities: 1) community partnering, through community-based participatory research; 2) multifactoral, multilevel interventions within a cultural and social context; and, 3) translating evidence-based and community-based practice. NM CARES HD will build on the foundations of a strong set of established, collaborating institutional programs, nationally recognized expertise in several key areas, long-standing productive partnerships with Native American and Hispanic communities, and a diverse interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve its overall goal. That goal is to create a vigorous, self-sustaining, research center that advances the scientific base of knowledge about interventions and solutions to health disparities in Southwestern Native American and Hispanic communities. A strong team of investigators with senior, NIHfunded leadership has come together to meet the NM CARES HD specific aims. An Administrative Core, a Research Core, a Research Training and Education Core, and a Community Engagement Core together with two research projects will be the initial composition of the NMCOE it works toward meeting a set of specific aims and subaims. Those aims are to: 1. Establish a multidisciplinary research center that advances the science of interventions to eliminate health disparities among Southwestern Native American and Hispanic communities; 2. Enhance the ability of UNM researchers to compete for NIH individual, disparityrelated research grants; 3. Build a partnership, dedicated to research on health disparities, between UNM investigators and community residents in Native American and Hispanic communities. In meeting these aims, NM CARES HD will develop innovative structures and resources to support the expansion of research on interventions to eliminate disparities in these communities. The combined resources and institutional commitments of new faculty, and pilot project and national conference support make success highly likely.