Midwest Roybal Center for Health Promotion and Translation

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们提议的UlC中西部Roybal健康促进和翻译中心的使命是加速将基本行为和社会科学研究理论和方法转化为实际成果，以改善老年人的功能和生活质量。这个Roybal中心更新申请建立在我们以前资助的三个Roybal中心的基础上，通过共同强调影响行为改变的启动和维持的个人和社区层面的因素。我们的中心将资助理论驱动的试点研究，这些研究将研究在个人层面促进健康行为改变的因素，以及涉及在组织和社会层面翻译循证健康行为改变干预措施的研究。我们建议的更新中心保留其重点翻译干预老年少数民族成年人，但扩大健康行为干预的重点，包括认知健康。该更新申请针对三个重点主题领域：行为改变机制，利用生物行为风险机制的可塑性的新型干预措施，以及针对社交网络和社会参与的功能以增加福祉的计划。我们的工作将继续以RE-AIM框架为指导，评估健康促进干预措施，以确定那些最有可能广泛传播和产生公共卫生影响的措施。该中心的研究人员将包括休斯博士，海勒，费兰斯，鲁杰罗，马克斯，马奎兹，史密斯-雷和所有的资助试点项目的主要研究人员。试点项目执行人将在管理核心的监督下，负责完成其项目下提议的所有活动。试点核心将提供赠款资金，每年至少有两个试点，从教师和学生研究人员在ULC，伊利诺伊大学其他校区，并酌情其他大学征求。更新中心执行委员会由来自ULC校园多个部门的高级领导组成，所有这些都对完成中心的使命至关重要。执行委员会将指导中心的方向并监督试点项目。拟议中心的整体表现将由一个杰出的咨询委员会指导，该委员会包括来自不同学术界，供应商，资助者，消费者和媒体利益相关者群体的代表。最后，这一更新申请首次纳入了一个数字卓越工作组，该工作组负责促进传播工作，并确保每个试点项目尽可能充分利用新兴技术。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of our proposed UlC Midwest Roybal Center for Health Promotion and Translation is to accelerate the translation of basic behavioral and social science research theories and methodologies into practical outcomes to improve the functioning and quality of life of older adults. This Roybal Center renewal application builds on our three previously-funded Roybal Centers through a joint emphasis on individual- and community-level factors that influence initiation and maintenance of behavior change. Our Center will fund theoretically-driven pilot studies that will examine factors that facilitate healt behavior change at the individual level as well as studies that involve translating evidence-based health behavior change interventions at the organizational and societal level. Our proposed renewal Center retains its focus on translating interventions to older minority adults, but expands the focus of health behavior interventions to include cognitive health. This renewal application targets three thematic areas of focus: mechanisms of behavior change, novel interventions that exploit the plasticity of biobehavioral risk mechanisms, and programs that target features of social networks and social engagement to increase well-being. Our work will continue to be guided by the RE-AIM framework for evaluating health promotion interventions to identify those that have the greatest potential for broad based dissemination and public health impact. The Center Research Faculty will include Drs. Hughes, Heller, Ferrans, Ruggiero, Marks, Marquez, Smith- Ray and all of the Principal Investigators of funded pilot projects. The Pilot Pis will be responsible for completing all activities proposed under their projects, under th oversight of the Management Core. The Pilot Core will provide grant funding for a minimum of two pilots per year, solicited from faculty and student researchers at UlC, other University of Illinois campuses, and other Universities as appropriate. The renewal Center Executive Committee is comprised of Senior Leaders from multiple departments on the UlC campus, all of which are critical to fulfilling the mission of the Center. The Executive Committee will guide the direction of the Center and oversee the pilot projects. The overall performance of the proposed Center will be guided by a distinguished Advisory Committee that includes representatives from diverse academic, provider, funder, consumer, and media stakeholder groups. Finally, this renewal application incorporates for the first time a Workgroup for Digital Excellence which is charged with facilitating dissemination efforts and ensuring that each of the pilots utilizes emerging technology to the fullest extent possible.