Project EXPORT - A Center of Excellence (PEACE)

描述（由申请人提供）：100多年前W.E.B.杜波依斯写了《费城黑人》，这本书详细介绍了对非洲裔美国人社区的第一批社会科学研究之一-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-揭示了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洲裔美国人，而且还困扰着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民族困境的方法，同时保持“文化能力”和“敏感性”。“我们认为，二十世纪的科学方法，特别是那些涉及得不到充分服务的社区的方法，在二十一世纪将行不通。我们需要一种更全面的方法，不仅涉及科学发现，而且涉及科学发现与现实世界的应用和社区服务相结合。少数民族健康研究中心（CRMH），第一个国会授权的少数民族健康和健康差距中心以外的联邦政府，和草原视图A & M大学（PVAMU）及其护理学院，建立了出口项目一个成功的方法来弥合科学和社区之间的差距。在延长项目出口，现在被称为“项目出口-一个卓越的中心”（和平），我们将继续解决健康差距使用相同的整体方法，建立在我们的教育和推广方案，以加强和扩大我们的研究工作，以便：（a）将“出口项目”正在进行的少数民族健康和健康差距工作纳入CRMH，并将其作为一个卓越的研究中心，同时在研究培训、社区参与和外展方面制定新的计划（所有核心）;（B）维持和发展在设计上具有“生物心理社会”性质的研究项目，认识到生物、环境、行为和社会因素在多个社会背景和多个社会层面上独立或依赖地发挥作用，确定健康结果（c）加强现有的研究培训活动，使来自少数群体和得不到充分服务的人口的研究人员能够进行有价值的少数群体健康和健康差距研究;（d）建立当地和国外的社区和机构伙伴关系，改善少数群体和医疗服务不足者的健康状况（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，告知公众，医疗保健提供者，和潜在的临床试验参与者有关癌症治疗和预防试验，并将继续与专业培训工作，以：（1）加强课程，促进癌症健康差异的研究;（2）提供经验，少数民族学生寻求职业生涯中的健康差异研究;和（3）发展，与M。D.安德森生物统计与应用科学系，与PVAMU的数据管理系统，培训草原视图学生维护和更新系统，为未来的研究项目。这些只是该应用程序的一些独特功能。我们打算有所作为。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 Congressionally mandated 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.