Research Core

研究中心将作为连接伙伴机构研究活动的核心，同时孵化新的研究想法。核心的主题，以及整个国家跨学科合作中心的非洲裔美国人的健康（NTCC）的主题，是减少与非洲裔美国人的健康在整个生命过程中的差距。我们的目标是促进种族/民族差异的理解，因为它们涉及到非洲裔美国人的健康在整个生命过程中，制定和实施干预措施，以解决这些差距的目标。我们将以两种方式实现这一目标：1）针对非洲裔美国男性生命过程中各个阶段发病率和死亡率的最重要原因，制定和测试干预措施;和2）通过研究非裔美国男性在生命过程中发病和死亡的主要原因的风险因素的发展和进展，以及与种族/民族健康差异有关的因素，利用正在进行的纵向流行病学研究的数据。我们的最终目标是减少并最终消除与非洲裔美国人健康有关的种族/民族差异。我们将建立在我们的NIMHD资助的卓越中心（COE），我们的增强少数民族参与临床试验（EMPaCT）U24国家联盟进行的研究的成功，以及我们在过去几年的合作历史。我们的COE和EMPaCT联盟还将提供基础设施和设施，以利用本申请中提出的核心/计划，以确保拟议和未来研究的成功。

The Research Core will serve as the nucleus connecting the partnering institutions' research activities while incubating new research ideas. The theme of the Core, as well as of the theme of the entire National Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for African American Men's Health (NTCC), is the reduction of disparities related to African American men's health over the life course. Our objective is to advance the understanding of racial/ethnic disparities as they relate to African American men's health throughout the life course, with the goal of developing and implementing interventions to address these disparities. We will pursue this objective in two ways: 1) by developing and testing interventions directed at the most important causes of morbidity and mortality at various stages during the life course of African American males; and 2) by studying the development and progression of risk factors for the main causes of morbidity and mortality of African American males over the life course, as well as factors related to racial/ethnic health disparities, utilizing data from ongoing longitudinal epidemiological studies. Our ultimate goal is to reduce and eventually eliminate racial/ethnic disparities related to African American men's health. We will build on the success of the research conducted by our NIMHD-funded Centers of Excellence (COEs), our Enhancing Minority Participation in Clinical Trials (EMPaCT) U24 National Consortium, and our history of partnership in the past several years. Our COEs and the EMPaCT Consortium will also provide an infrastructure and facilities to leverage the Cores/Programs proposed in this application, to ensure the success of the proposed and future research.