Center of Excellence for Health Disparties in the Nation's Capital

设在我国首都的健康差距英才中心(CEHD)的愿景是通过将知识从研究到实践再到政策来消除健康差距。CEHD将是州立大学一项更广泛的总统倡议的一部分，该倡议旨在协调大学内部的努力，将所有校园的学科聚集在一起，并扩大和加强与其他学术、政府、非营利组织、信仰和社区合作伙伴的合作，以最大限度地解决这一问题。拟议的CEHD将在乳腺癌和中风方面进行严重的健康差距研究，为未来的专业人员提供最先进的服务和计划做准备，并培训该领域的未来领导者。一个关键的焦点将是我们国家的首都哥伦比亚特区。 消除种族歧视委员会的一个主要目标是在科学界和非科学界之间架起桥梁，努力认真消除和/或减少影响少数群体，特别是居住在哥伦比亚特区的非裔美国人的健康差距。非洲裔美国人是哥伦比亚特区内最大的少数族裔人口，他们受到中风和癌症等慢性病的影响不成比例。 该项目的具体目标分为三类：1)研究--将通过 研究项目探索减少影响华盛顿特区非裔美国人健康的两种特定慢性疾病的差异的方法；2)研究培训/教育--通过满足各级研究人员和学生需求的教育和培训计划，促进少数群体健康和健康差异研究的事业；3)社区参与--促进与社区组织在疾病预防和/或干预活动和研究方面的合作。文化能力的重要交叉目标与这些领域中的每一个领域都相交。

The vision of the Center of Excellence for Health Disparities in Our Nation's Capital (CEHD) is to eliminate health disparities by transferring knowledge from research-to-practice-to-policy. The CEHD will be part of a broader presidential initiative at GU that intends to coordinate efforts within the university, bringing together disciplines from across all the campuses, as well as to expand and strengthen collaborations with other academic, government, nonprofit, faith-based, and community partners to have maximum impact on the problem. The proposed CEHD will conduct critical health disparities research in breast cancer and stroke, prepare future professionals to deliver state-of-the-art services and programs, and train future leaders in the field. A key focus will be our nation's capital, the District of Columbia. A primary goal of the CEHD is to build bridges between the scientific and the lay community in an effort to seriously eliminate and/or reduce health disparities that impact the minority population, particularly African-Americans residing in the District of Columbia. The African American population is the largest minority population within the District of Columbia and is a population disproportionately affected by chronic diseases such as stroke and cancer. The specific objectives of the project fall into three categories: 1) Research - to be explored via research projects exploring methods to decrease disparities in two specific chronic conditions impacting the health of African Americans in Washington, DC: breast cancer and stroke; 2) Research Training/Education - to promote careers in minority health and health disparities research through educational and training programs that meet the needs of investigators and students at all levels of experience, with particular emphasis on recruiting students and faculty from minority health populations; 3) Community Engagement - to foster collaborations with community organizations in conducting disease prevention and/or intervention activities and research. The important cross-cutting objectives of Cultural Competence intersect with each of these areas.