Project EXPORT - A Center of Excellence (PEACE)

100多年前，W.E.B.杜布瓦写了《费城黑人》一书，这本书详细描述了最早的社会科学 对非裔美国人社区的研究--他们的集体历史和个人家庭；他们的健康，教育， 职业、经济和政治地位；他们的教堂和企业；他们的个人习惯、偏见和生活 条件--揭示研究作为纠正社会不公正和影响社会变革的手段的潜力。 今天，现在被称为“健康差距”的问题不仅继续困扰着非裔美国人，而且还困扰着他们。 其他有色人种和医疗服务不足的人，社会正在努力寻找改善少数族裔困境的方法 同时保持“文化能力”和“敏感”。我们认为二十世纪的科学方法 在21世纪，特别是那些涉及服务不足的社区的政策将不会奏效。我们需要一个更多的 不仅涉及科学发现，而且涉及科学发现与现实世界相结合的综合方法 应用程序和社区服务。第一个国会授权的少数民族健康研究中心(CRMH) 联邦政府以外的少数族裔健康和健康差距中心，以及Prairie View A&M 大学(PVAMU)及其护理学院，与Project EXPORT建立了一种成功的方法，以弥合 科学与社会之间的鸿沟。在续签项目出口时，现在称为“项目出口-A” 卓越中心“(和平)，我们将继续以同样的整体方法解决健康差距问题， 在我们的教育和推广方案的基础上，加强和扩大我们的研究努力，以便：(A)整合 和集中正在进行的少数群体健康和健康差距努力项目出口到CRMH作为一项研究 卓越中心，同时在研究培训、社区参与和外联方面开发新的计划。(全部 (B)维持和发展在设计上具有“生物-心理-社会”性质的研究方案，认识到生物、 环境、行为和社会因素，在多个社会背景下独立或依赖地行动，以及 多个社会阶层，决定着健康结果。(研究和社区关系核心)；(C)加强现有 研究培训活动，为来自少数群体和服务不足的人群的研究人员进行有价值的 少数群体健康和健康差距研究；(研究、教育和培训核心)和(D)以社区为基础 以及当地和国外的机构伙伴关系，这将改善少数群体和 医疗服务不足。(研究、社区关系和研究教育与培训核心)。我们将继续 与癌症信息服务和M.D.安德森公共教育办公室合作，向公众、健康 护理提供者和潜在的临床试验参与者关于癌症治疗和预防试验的信息，并将 推进专业培训工作，以：(1)加强课程，促进癌症健康差异的研究； (2)为寻求健康差距研究工作的少数族裔学生提供经验；(3)与M. D.安德森生物统计与应用科学部，PVAMU的数据管理系统，Train Prairie 查看学生以维护和更新系统以供将来的研究项目使用。这些只是其中几个独特的 此应用程序的功能。我们打算有所作为。

Over 100 years ago W.E.B. Dubois wrote "The "Philadelphia Negro," a book detailing one of the first social-scientific studies of a community of African Americans - their collective history and individual families; their health, educational, occupational, economic and political status; their churches and businesses; their personal habits, biases and living conditions - revealing the potential of research as a means to correct social injustice and effect societal change. Today, the issue of what is now termed "health disparities" continues to plague not only African Americans, but also other people of color and the medically underserved, and society struggles with ways to improve the plight of minorities while remaining "culturally competent" and "sensitive." It is our opinion that the scientific approaches of the twentieth century, especially those involving underserved communities, will not work in the twenty-first century. We need a more comprehensive approach that will involve not scientific discovery alone, but scientific discovery coupled with real-world applications and community service. The Center for Research on Minority Health (CRMH), the first Congressionallymandated center on minority health and health disparities outside of the federal government, and Prairie View A & M University (PVAMU) and its College of Nursing, established with Project EXPORT a successful approach to bridging the gap between science and community. In the renewal of Project EXPORT, now referred to as "Project EXPORT - A Center of Excellence" (PEACE), we will continue to address health disparities using the same holistic approach, building on our educational and outreach programs to enhance and expand our research efforts, so as to: (a) integrate and centralize ongoing minority health and health disparities efforts of Project EXPORT into the CRMH as a research center of excellence, while developing new programs in research training, community engagement, and outreach. (All Cores); (b) maintain and develop research programs that are "biopsychosocial" in design, recognizing that biological, environmental, behavioral and social factors, acting independently or dependently across multiple social contexts and multiple social levels, determine health outcomes. (Research & Community Relations Cores); (c) enhance existing research training activities that prepare researchers from minority and underserved populations to conduct meritorious minority health and health disparities research; (Research Education & Training Core) and (d) build upon community and institutional partnerships, both locally and abroad, that will effect improvements in the health of minorities and the medically underserved. (Research, Community Relations, and Research Education & Training Cores). We will continue to work with Cancer Information Services and the M. D. Anderson Office of Public Education to inform the public, health care providers, and potential clinical trial participants about cancer treatment and prevention trials, and will move forward with professional training efforts to: (1) enhance a curriculum promoting research in cancer health disparities; (2) provide experience to minority students seeking careers in health disparities research; and (3) develop, with the M. D. Anderson Biostatistics & Applied Sciences Department, a data management system with PVAMU, training Prairie View students to maintain and update the system for future research projects. These are but a few of the unique features of this application. We intend to make a difference.