RCMI Center for Cancer and Health Disparities Research

摘要-总体 保持泽维尔的整体研究势头，并推进到癌症和健康的卓越的下一个水平 差异研究，RCMI癌症和健康差异研究中心将实施计划活动 支持早期阶段，代表性不足的研究人员，加强核心设施，以支持泽维尔研究人员， 并促进泽维尔与当地社区之间的长期、双向伙伴关系，以解决健康问题。 差距问题。RCMI中心将包括三个研究项目，分别是基础生物医学、行为医学和 临床研究和四个核心：行政核心，研究者发展核心，研究 核心能力和社区参与核心。这些方案将得到实施，以实现 以下具体目标：目标1。提高泽维尔的基础生物医学，行为和临床的研究能力 research. RCMI计划将维持、加强和优化核心服务，以支持Xavier investigators.核心设施将进行重组、整合，业务将得到精简， 泽维尔正在进行的研究项目的生产力和效率。目标二。使泽维尔调查员成为 在获得外部资金方面更具竞争力。这将通过以下方式实现：a）支持以下三个研究项目： 包括基础生物医学、行为学和临床研究的三个领域，使这些项目PI能够 在R 01应用中具有竞争力; B）通过以下方式为研究项目提供关键的研究资源 研究能力核心; c）通过研究者发展核心提供试点资金，以获得 为制订可获资助的研究建议而需要的初步数据及/或数据分析;及d） 通过赠款撰写讲习班和专业审查服务提供赠款管理培训。目标3： 通过研究发展网络促进Xavier早期研究人员的职业发展 支持新教师五年，以获得校外资助。目标4。提高质量和传播 少数民族健康和健康差距的研究。我们将组织半年一次的研讨会和讲习班 关于健康差距研究质量的培训，提供良好的科学做法、适当的统计数据和 使用和负责任的实验室做法，为各级研究人员。目标5。扩大可持续关系 与社区组织合作，这些组织将与泽维尔研究人员合作。社区参与核心 将得到加强，以a）通过双向知识促进和维持社区-学术伙伴关系 分享健康差距方面的干预战略和科学发现; B）促进更大的社区 参与确定研究优先事项，为学术界、从业者和社区创造更多机会 研究伙伴关系; c）在研究调查人员、社区和社区之间建立能力（知识和技能） 成员，卫生系统和潜在的研究参与者进行创新和变革性研究 满足社区卫生需求; d）为研究人员提供支持，以更好地传播研究成果 科学界，社区组织和非专业社区的调查结果。

SUMMARY – OVERALL To sustain Xavier’s overall research momentum and advance to the next level of excellence in cancer and health disparities research, the RCMI Cancer and Health Disparities Research Center will implement program activities to support early stage, underrepresented investigators, enhance core facilities to support Xavier researchers, and promote long-lasting, bidirectional partnerships between Xavier and local communities to address health disparity issues. The RCMI Center will consist of three research projects in basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research and four Cores: The Administrative Core, the Investigator Development Core, the Research Capacity Core, and the Community Engagement Core. These programs will be implemented to achieve the following specific aims: Aim 1. Enhance Xavier’s research capacity for basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. The RCMI program will maintain, strengthen and optimize core services in support of Xavier investigators. Core facilities will be restructured, consolidated, and operations will be streamlined to maximize productivity and efficiency of Xavier’s ongoing research projects. Aim 2. Enable Xavier investigators to become more competitive in obtaining external funding. This will be achieved by a) supporting three research projects in three areas encompassing basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research to enable these project PIs to become competitive in R01 applications; b) providing critical research resources for research projects through the Research Capacity Core; c) providing, through the Investigator Development Core, pilot funding to obtain necessary preliminary data and/or data analyses for the development of fundable research proposals; and d) providing grantsmanship training through grant writing workshops and professional review services. Aim 3. Promote career enhancement of Xavier’s early-stage investigators through a Research Development Network supporting new faculty for five years to obtain extramural funding. Aim 4. Enhance the quality and dissemination of research on minority health and health disparities. We will organize semi-annual symposiums and workshops on the quality of health disparities research to offer training in good scientific practices, appropriate statistical usage, and responsible laboratory practices for researchers at all levels. Aim 5. Expand sustainable relationships with community-based organizations that will partner with Xavier researchers. A Community Engagement Core will be enhanced to a) promote and sustain community-academic partnerships through bidirectional knowledge sharing on intervention strategies and scientific discovery in health disparities; b) facilitate greater community involvement in setting research priorities and creating more opportunities for academic-practitioner-community research partnerships; c) build capacity (knowledge and skills) among research investigators, community members, health systems, and potential research participants to conduct innovative and transformative research that addresses community health needs; d) provide support for investigators to better disseminate research findings to the scientific community, community organizations, and lay communities.