Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议建立一个P20研究中心，通过教育、研究和研究培训指导新一代健康研究人员，以解决拉美裔健康差距问题。中心将致力于向提供者、政策制定者和社区合作伙伴翻译和传播研究结果和经验教训。该中心将由四个核心组成：1)行政、2)研究、3)研究培训和教育、4)社区参与和传播。拟议的HHDRC将利用德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校、护理学院和健康科学学院与德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心-公共卫生学院之间持续的合作关系所产生的个人和集体势头。这些关系为拉美裔美国人健康差距的学术发展培育了可持续的机制。HHDRC将以一个概念框架为指导，明确影响我们边境社区拉美裔健康差距的变量。基于这一框架的研究将寻求减少拉美裔美国人健康差距的机制。HHDRC将在赠款的第3至第5年整合与本申请一起提交的两项完整研究，以及新的试点研究。我们为这一新的机会带来了技能组合、多学科人员和机构基础设施，这是由NCMHD最初提供的资金推动的，特别是西班牙裔健康差距研究中心的建立。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): We propose to develop a P20 Research Center to address Hispanic health disparities by mentoring a new generation of health researchers through education, research, and research training. The Center will be committed to translatiing and disseminating findings and lessons learned to providers, policy makers and community partners.The Center will comprise four cores: 1) Administrative, 2) Research, 3) Research Training and Education, and 4) Community Engagement and Dissemination. The proposed HHDRC will take advantage of the individual and collective momentum generated in and through ongoing collaborative relationships between the University of Texas at El Paso, School of Nursing and College of Health Sciences and University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center - School of Public Health. These relationships foster sustainable mechanisms for scholarship development in Hispanic American health disparities. The HHDRC will be guided by a conceptual framework that makes explicit the variables that influence Hispanic health disparities in our Border communities. Research based upon this framework will seek mechanisms to reduce Hispanic American health disparities. The HHDRC will integrate the two full studies submitted with this application, as well as new pilot studies in years 3-5 of the grant. We bring to this new opportunity the skill sets, multi-disciplinary personnel, and institutional infrastructure facilitated by the initial NCMHD funding, particularly the establishment of the Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center.