Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity and Health Disparities Research

描述(由申请者提供)：马里兰大学园区分校(UMCP)种族、族裔和健康差异研究英才中心旨在为马里兰大学重振旗鼓的土地捐赠任务做出积极贡献，其中包括消除种族和民族差异和实现健康公平的承诺。我们的目标是：1)建立和维持一个社区参与的关于严重健康差距的研究事业，2)提高种族和民族健康差距的可见度，并与马里兰人承诺解决办法，以及3)促进采取行动，改变以下结构性决定因素 马里兰州的健康。为了实现这些目标，我们的卓越中心有以下目标：1.提高少数族裔社区参与生物医学和公共卫生研究的能力和意愿，包括临床试验；(所有核心)；2.开发科学合理和文化相关的社区干预措施，旨在消除健康差距，特别注重减少马里兰州少数族裔社区经历的心脏代谢风险因素(肥胖、糖尿病、高血压、滑动症)(研究核心)；3.开展研究以加深我们对现有和新疫苗接种接受程度差异的理解，这些因素旨在预防新出现的疫苗可预防疾病，并将这些结果转化为将减少这种差异的交流包(研究核心)；4.制定、实施和评估培训计划，重点是使研究人员能够成功地接触少数群体社区，整合公共卫生关键种族实践，并利用第四代研究实现健康公平(研究培训和教育核心)；5.发起健康教育和健康促进倡议，其特点是社区与全州基层和其他合作伙伴的参与(社区参与和外联核心)；6.培养影响决策的能力，以解决该州健康的结构性决定因素(社区参与和外联核心)。

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).