Florida International University-Health Disparities Initiative (FIU-HDI)

项目总结 提议的佛罗里达国际大学健康差距倡议(FIU-HDI)的长期目标 加强和扩大金融情报室在健康差距研究和培训方面的能力。这些努力将产生 对缩小传染性和非传染性健康状况方面的健康差距的直接影响 在南佛罗里达和加勒比地区的脆弱、服务不足的社区。拟议的FIU-HDI将 推进最初的FIU-HDI(S21MD010683)和其他健康差距计划的基础工作 和大学的中心，包括：FIU的P20药物使用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究中心 在美国的拉丁裔(C-Salud；P20MD002288)；FIU的U54拉丁裔健康研究中心 机会(Claro；#U54MD002266)，它是FIU P20中心的延续，以及；FIU的新兴 卓越健康不平等和差异计划。拟议的FIU-HDI将利用社区参与 采取多学科方法，进一步加强大学培养下一代公众的能力 FIU罗伯特·斯坦普尔公共卫生学院的健康、临床、生物医学和行为研究人员 社会工作(下称斯坦普尔学院)和赫伯特·韦特海姆医学院(下称HWCOM) 解决传染性和非传染性健康状况中的健康差距--促进健康 公平--在南佛罗里达和加勒比海地区服务不足的人口中。因此，该委员会的三个目标 建议的FIU-HDI是：目标1：扩大FIU现有健康差距的广度和范围 博士集中包括斯坦佩尔学院所有系/校的博士生， 和HWCOM生物医学科学的博士生，使他们能够在他们的 集中于健康差距的各个领域；目标2：扩大FIU-HDI博士后 允许早期调查人员接受培训、指导和专业培训的培训计划 在其选定的重点领域提供发展机会，目标是成为独立的健康差距 研究人员；目标3：通过以下方式扩大和加强HWCOM研究奖学金课程 培训下一代医生，以了解健康的社会和文化决定因素在 对脆弱和缺乏服务的社区中的患者的诊断、治疗和护理。拟议的金融情报室- HDI将建立在整个斯坦普尔学院现有的专业知识基础上，该学院的教职员工(A)拥有广泛的 开展美国国立卫生研究院资助的社区参与健康差距研究的经验 在南佛罗里达州的社区；和(B)培养和维持持续的基于社区的合作 与加勒比海地区著名的研究机构合作。此应用程序扩展了 目前的计划是建立大学的永久投资，以继续建设研究和 培训基础设施，减少#年易受伤害、服务不足社区的健康差距 南佛罗里达和加勒比海地区以及多样化的健康差距科学工作者。

PROJECT SUMMARY The long-term objective of the proposed Florida International University-Health Disparities Initiative (FIU-HDI) is to enhance and expand FIU’s capacity for health disparities research and training. These efforts will have a direct impact on reducing health disparities in communicable and noncommunicable health conditions in vulnerable, underserved communities in South Florida and the Caribbean region. The proposed FIU-HDI will advance foundational efforts of the original FIU-HDI (S21MD010683) and other health disparities programs and centers at the University, including: FIU’s P20 Center for Substance Use and HIV/AIDS Research on Latinos in the United States (C-SALUD; P20MD002288); FIU’s U54 Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO; #U54MD002266), which is a continuation of FIU’s P20 Center, and; FIU’s Emerging Preeminent Health Inequities and Disparities Program. The proposed FIU-HDI will utilize community-engaged multidisciplinary approaches to further strengthen the University’s capacity to train the next generation of public health, clinical, biomedical, and behavioral researchers at FIU’s Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work (hereafter Stempel College) and Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (hereafter HWCOM) to address health disparities in communicable and noncommunicable heath conditions—and advance health equity—among underserved populations in South Florida and the Caribbean. Thus, the three objectives of the proposed FIU-HDI are: Objective 1: Expand the breadth and scope of FIU’s existing Health Disparities Doctoral Concentration to include doctoral students across all departments/schools within Stempel College, and doctoral students in Biomedical Sciences at HWCOM, enabling them to earn doctoral degrees in their respective fields with a concentration in Health Disparities; Objective 2: Expand the FIU-HDI post-doctoral training program allowing early stage investigators to receive training, mentoring, and professional development opportunities in their chosen focus area with the goal of becoming independent health disparities researchers; Objective 3: Expand and strengthen the HWCOM Research Scholarship Course by continuing to train the next generation of physicians to understand the role of social and cultural determinants of health in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of patients in vulnerable and underserved communities. The proposed FIU- HDI will build on the expertise available across Stempel College, whose faculty (a) possess extensive experience in conducting NIH-funded community-engaged health disparities research with underserved communities in South Florida; and (b) have cultivated and sustained ongoing community-based collaborations with distinguished research institutions in the Caribbean. This application expands on the success of the current program to establish a permanent investment by the University in continuing to build research and training infrastructure leading to a reduction in health disparities in vulnerable, underserved communities in South Florida and the Caribbean region as well as a diversification of the health disparities scientific workforce.