Core--Community Action Core

CHUM社区行动核心将追求的目标是帮助研究人员和社区领导人以合作的方式开展和维持旨在减少曼哈顿北部社区少数族裔健康差距的倡议。 食典委将在很大程度上通过以下方式实现这一目标：(1)建立一个由社区组织领导人和学术研究人员组成的跨学科规划委员会，他们将共同制定、评估和修改以社区为基础的健康促进/疾病预防规划的方法；(2)培训公共健康促进专家(PHPS)。这些梅尔曼公共卫生学院公共卫生硕士项目的毕业生将在社区机构工作，但也将向核心公共健康促进专家项目的关键人员汇报工作。PHPS将在机构和学术机构之间进行调解，协助机构实现健康促进和信息传播目标，并让它们了解研究人员的关切，同时向研究人员通报机构和社区的关切和兴趣。这个 PHPS实际上将构成推动社区参与性研究的关键机制。(3)增加社区合作伙伴和学术研究人员之间双向、有意义和相互尊重的交流机会。 实质上，社区行动核心将解决三个目标：(1)鼓励和装备社区潜在地参与临床研究和合作开展循证疾病预防和干预活动；(2)开发和传播与CHUM研究直接相关的文化敏感健康信息或以文化敏感方式提供的一般健康信息；以及(3)在地区初中和/或高中赞助科学教育推广活动。

The CHUM Community Action Core will pursue the goal of helping researchers and community leaders to work in a collaborative fashion to develop and sustain initiatives designed to reduce minority health disparities in the northern Manhattan (NM) community. The CAC will achieve this goal in considerable part by (1) developing an interdisciplinary Planning Council of leaders of CBOs and academic researchers, who will collectively develop, evaluate and modify approaches to community-based health promotion/disease prevention programming (2) training public health promotion specialists (PHPSs). These graduates of the Mailman School of Public Health's MPH program will work in community agencies but will also report to key personnel of the Core's Public Health Promotion Specialist program. The PHPSs will mediate between the agency and academic settings, assisting the agencies in fulfilling health promotion and information dissemination goals and giving them understanding of researchers' concerns while informing researchers of agency and community concerns and interests. The PHPSs will in effect constitute a key mechanism for advancing toward community participatory research. (3) enhance opportunities for bi-directional, meaningful, and respectful communication between community partners and academic researchers. Substantively, the Community Action Core will address three goals: (1) encouraging and equipping the community for potential participation in clinical studies and for partnering in the conduct of evidence-based disease prevention and intervention activities; (2) developing and disseminating culturally sensitive health information directly related to the research of CHUM or general health information presented in a culturally sensitive manner; and (3) sponsoring science education outreach activities in area middle and/or high schools.