COMMUNITY CORE

在过去的十年里，西奈山的调查人员已经与各种社区建立了合作 哈莱姆区的团体和组织。研究人员和社区领袖之间的关系是 最初是脆弱的，特征是社区领导人怀疑研究人员对 致力于改善医院外的健康，研究人员怀疑 社区领袖。随着我们伙伴关系的成熟，我们在提案制定、研究决策、 作者身份、经济责任和研究议程的选择。 西奈山出口中心已成为通过其 非常活跃的社区核心。CORE的社区咨询委员会成员现在都是出版作家， 有造诣的演讲者和知识渊博的研究评论家。例如，董事会成员指导 输出中风研究人员将他们的干预措施转移到社区并采用更实际的 招聘策略。 社区参与核心现在准备利用我们的经验和专业知识与 调查人员和其他人一起进行健康差距研究。核心顾问委员会成员将有所提高 研究设计使项目识别和利用现有的社区资源，并敏感地 哈莱姆区居民的背景。我们还将提出和实施新的战略，以招募和 在研究中留住哈莱姆居民，帮助研究人员在数据收集和 分析、设计方法以维持和复制成功的项目，并教育社区和当地 关于我们的研究和关于健康差距的改变因素。这个团队将使用赏识问询，一个 以解决方案为导向，而不是更传统的、以问题为中心的方法，以利用创造力和 社区领袖和研究人员共同努力进行有效研究的能量。通过 这个核心的工作，我们的目标是激励新一代学术社区合作伙伴拥有技能和 致力于消除导致不成比例的痛苦负担的健康差距 哈莱姆区的居民。

Over the past decade, Mount Sinai investigators have established collaborations with a variety of community groups and organizations in Harlem. Relationships between researchers and community leaders were initially tenuous, and characterized by community leaders doubting researchers' understanding of, and commitment to improving health outside their hospitals, and researchers doubting the expertise of community leaders. As our partnerships matured, we shared in proposal development, research decisionmaking, authorship, financial responsibility and the selection of research agendas. The Mount Sinai EXPORT Center has become a center for building substantive collaborations through its very active Community Core. The Core's Community Advisory Board members are now published authors, accomplished speakers and knowledgeable research critics. For example, board members guided the EXPORT stroke researchers to move their intervention into the community and to adopt more practical recruitment strategies. The Community Engagement Core is now prepared to use our experiences and expertise to work with investigators and together, conduct health disparities research. Core advisory board members will improve research designs so projects recognize and capitalize on existing community resources and are sensitive to the backgrounds of Harlem residents. We will also propose and implement novel strategies to recruit and retain Harlem residents in studies, help researchers pose relevant questions during data collection and analysis, devise ways to sustain and replicate successful programs, and educate the community and local change agents about our research and about health-disparities. This team will use Appreciative Inquiry, a solution-oriented, as opposed to a more traditional, problem-focused approach, to harness the creativity and energy of community leaders and researchers to work together to conduct effective research. Through the work of this Core, we aim to inspire a new generation of academic-community partners with skills and dedication to eliminate the health disparities that lead to a disproportionate burden of suffering among Harlem residents.